Word: enlisting
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...There are a lot of crossover characteristics,” Barrett said, as he spoke of Navy Seal recruiters from his hometown of San Diego who visit ultra-marathons over the summer to enlist runners for their mental and physical toughness...
...preservation of the life he has spent the entirety of his own studying. In his inspiring new book, Wilson, a self-professed “secular humanist” who unequivocally acknowledges the “seismic divide” between Christian doctrines and natural biology, seeks to enlist the support of science’s most unlikely ally: the Wilberforces of the modern world. Composed as a series of letters to a Southern Baptist pastor, Wilson’s work paints a dismal picture of the dramatic and widespread deterioration of the Earth’s various ecosystems. Wilson...
...seeking a new united front with "responsible" (i.e. U.S.-allied) Arab regimes and Israel to help counter the extremist camp of Iran, Hizballah and Hamas. In this new narrative, Iran is cast as the major regional threat and also, increasingly, as an agent of chaos in Iraq. To help enlist the cooperation of the "responsible" Sunni Arab autocracies, the Bush Administration will also seek to restore its bona fides in the Arab world by promoting a rapid resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...
...done it in public. I've done it a lot in private. That will continue to be the cornerstone of our policy because we believe it's the way the Middle East is going to change. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't enlist countries with which you are continuing to press for reform ... in what is also a very clear struggle, a struggle between extremists and more responsible states...
...himself who, together with a few friends, spent much of August in the Coop bookstore, using notepads to record ISBN information for nearly 2,500 textbooks to get the site up and running in September. With the spring semester set to begin, he said, he thought it wise to enlist the help of the UC. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, about 95 percent of this spring’s ISBN numbers were eventually recorded, despite the Coop’s intervention. Still, the friction with Coop officials was frustrating, said Petersen, who had initially...