Word: dismays
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...have been a sharp response by the Israeli government and the attendant threat to his leadership in a project he has worked hard to realize. Robertson, a leader in the evangelical branch that supports Israel's existence as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies anticipating Christ's return-hence his dismay at its "division"-has many interests there. Most notably, he is collaborating with the Israeli government and a group of evangelicals to build a $50 million Evangelical "heritage center" on the Sea of Galilee. Israel was to provide the land and infrastructure for the project, leaving the funding...
...Steven Spielberg's Munich has drawn some harsh responses, mostly because the director chose to go Rodney King in a Time interview last month: "For me this movie is a prayer for peace." He has expressed dismay about the perpetual cycle of violence in the Middle East-which seems to imply a moral equivalence between Palestinian terrorists who butchered members of Israel's Olympic team in 1972 and the Mossad agents who tried to track them down and kill them. The film itself is more subtle. The "facts" of the story have been questioned by former Israeli intelligence officers...
...build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble. In late November, he went to check up on five widows for whom he had built lean-tos on a steep mountainside above the city of Muzaffarabad, not far from the quake's epicenter. To his dismay, George discovered that the structures had been torn down and the widows were gone...
...spend that much time in our defensive zone.”After freshman Jenny Brine scored her third goal of the night on a play in which she charged into the net, Lane became upset and frustrated that no call had been made on the play. To her dismay, and Brine’s benefit, the referee awarded the Crimson the goal and a 3-0 lead that was more than enough for Harvard senior goaltender Ali Boe to uphold.Dating back through last season, the Crimson has now taken the last four meetings between the two teams.Harvard seemed to have...
...recent speeches, the President has acknowledged that U.S. military strategy has been defective, especially in the Sunni triangle. He has made clear the difficulty we have had in training Iraqi security forces. He has expressed concern about the power that ethnic militias have overthose forces. He has expressed dismay about the corruption rampant in the new democratic Iraq. He has admitted that large reconstruction contracts given to U.S. corporations like Halliburton have been a failure. He has repeatedly asserted that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, that the intelligence that caused him to attack Iraq was wrong...