Word: devout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole might take some comfort from the fact that this whole fight is making his party uncomfortable. The more threatening Forbes seems, particularly to devout pro-lifers, the more likely they will be to choose a pragmatist like Dole over a purist like Buchanan. Likewise, the more ground Buchanan gains with his anti-NAFTA, anti-Big Business salvos, the more willing traditional G.O.P. allies will be to send Dole their cash and their votes. And because he is being besieged from right and left, Dole may no longer have to blow away the competition to triumph in the devilish expectations...
Tragic, and morally charged. However, what propelled this case into the political arena was a different issue entirely. Ian's parents were divorced. He lived with his mother and stepfather, both of whom are devout Christian Scientists. His father, Douglass Lundman, with whom Ian did not live...
However, there is no question that in cases of life and death, we must galvanize all the resources at our disposal to save the life in danger. Carter writes that "the death of any child is a tragedy--but it is not a greater tragedy because it occurs as devout family members pray rather than as noble physicians struggle." What he should have written is that the greater tragedy is when a child like Ian dies because his or her parents are closed to the many kinds of healing, because they do not have devout family members praying and noble...
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA: Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Roman Catholics turned out Wednesday to celebrate with Pope John Paul II at an open-air Mass. In a nation that is nearly 80 percent Catholic, the Pope's arrival is considered a blessing. Welcoming him, President Violeta Chamorro, a devout Catholic, said the visit could help heal old wounds in a nation still recovering from a decade-long civil war. "Thanks to divine providence, peace has returned to your country and to all of Central America," the Pope told the crowd. In 1990 elections, Chamorro defeated the leftist Sandinistas, who controlled...
Women in comas have given birth before, usually to children conceived before the women were stricken. And by tradition, barring a living will, doctors honor a family's perception of a coma victim's wishes. The New York woman had been a devout Roman Catholic. Says Ellen Moskowitz, a lawyer and ethicist at the Hastings Center, "It seems reasonable to conclude this is the kind of decision she would have wanted...