Word: eastern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unlikely alliance of pacifists, anti-abortionists, traditional nationalists, Marxists and free marketeers. They were greatly aided by the form of the treaty itself - 346 pages of turgid text on the minutiae of Europe's institutional machinery, with no grand project, such as the euro or eastern enlargement, to capture the public's imagination. Many voters said they simply did not understand what they were voting on. At the same time, the "no" campaigners played on public ignorance to raise fears about alleged threats to sovereignty and the Irish way of life in everything from taxation and defense policy to abortion...
...potent vignettes to a story with any narrative or emotional plausibility. The movie keeps ignoring its internal logic. If the killer is borne by the wind, why don't people in the affected area just stay inside with the windows shut and wait it out, instead of traipsing across eastern Pennsylvania farmland...
...Michelle, Ma Belle The truths Michelle Obama speaks are evolutionary and applicable to deep-rooted Americans [June 2]. My American family goes back to Captain John Steele in the Revolutionary War. Our immigrant ancestors came from Ireland, Germany, England, Scotland, Eastern Europe, Russia, Mexico and the Philippines. I happen to be a 76-year-old white male, and for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. When Michelle speaks, we hear her wakening the American Dream. John S. Hellman, New York City...
...year ago, a slender girl called Cloud had no idea she would dedicate her life to lifting disks of iron above her head. Then a stranger came to her remote village in eastern China's Shandong province, took detailed measurements of her shoulder width, thigh length and waist circumference--and announced she would have the honor of serving her motherland as a weight lifter. The then 14-year-old daughter of vegetable farmers had little choice in the matter. She had been chosen to be a cog in China's vast sports machine, a multibillion-dollar apparatus designed with...
...changed, most Europeans - and most European political leaders - have been self-absorbed in refining their own system of prosperity. That process, to be sure, has benefited the outside world; it has, for example, enabled the European Union to assist the transition to market democracy of former Soviet satellites in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is surely time for European leaders and thinkers to discuss something a little more expansive than that. Out of the challenges, and indeed failures, of the Bush Administration, a lively discourse on the nature of American power has been born. It would be nice...