Word: draw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become more acceptable to speak critically about Israel during the last two years, critics have worked hard to draw important distinctions. Those who condemn current policies of the Israeli government underscore that, in doing so, they are not denying Israel's right to exist. Similarly, critics of the Israeli role in the occupied territories are careful to distinguish between governance in the territories and policy within Israel proper...
...piece of sculpture without touching it," she emphasizes. "When I taught a class at Phillips Exeter, I told my students to close < their eyes and feel an object, feel its proportion. Then I would take it away and make them draw it. If you create something unusual, people will take the next step...
...kind of thing," Lin says, "that requires patience, awareness and added sensitivity. Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole. I wanted to put the truth down, just once. Placing it, just once." After all, she asks, "if you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn...
...problem, of course, is that a case-by-case approach can easily create inconsistencies. For one thing, legislatures are not always careful to calibrate each offense according to its severity; this can lead to situations in which an armed assault can draw the same penalty, say 15 years, as a simple robbery. In recent years, moreover, disparities in the punishments prescribed for various crimes have been exaggerated by legislators' tendency to enact mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for drug crimes...
Hunting outfitters and stockmen scuff their cowboy boots in the dirt, unconvinced, as Askins talks. Some of them like to draw a line between Eastern ecobabblers, who puff wolves as gallant symbols of wildness, and true Westerners, who know them as cruel and cowardly and who can be relied on to "shoot, shovel and shut up," as the brag goes in the cowboy bars. But, Brad Little, a stockman from Emmett, Idaho, concedes, "It's not so much wolves we're afraid of, it's wolf managers." Exactly. The wolves themselves, though they are sure to range beyond park boundaries...