Word: establish
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After Columbine, there were many kids who wanted to talk. But I approached it gingerly. You have to establish yourself as a human being that cares before you take the notepad out. Don't just plunge...
...home team.“I think that they serve the ball really well,” Nathan said. “As a unit, we didn’t pass particularly well, so that definitely was a contributing factor.”While struggles to pass and establish an offensive presence would prove to be the Achilles’ heel for Harvard throughout the game, it was the superb serving from Rutgers-Newark that would be the story of the day. In just three sets, the Pioneers racked up ten service aces, and the Crimson simply had no answer...
...should be done," says Swati Mehta, Coordinator of the Prison Reforms Programme at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in New Delhi. If a defendant claims to be under 18, she says, the judge is required to order medical tests or investigate school records or other documents that might establish age. (Pakistani officials have acknowledged that Qasab is a Pakistani, but have given no proof of age. It's common in South Asia for births to go unrecorded.) The defense attorney could have also pressed further but instead accepted the decision...
Nearly two years after the arrest of Abdul Aziz on multiple charges of inciting violence against the state of Pakistan, the firebrand cleric of Islamabad's radical Red Mosque has returned to the pulpit with a promise that he will continue with his struggle to establish Shari'a, or Islamic law, throughout the country...
Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani defended the move to establish Shari'a, saying it was the only way to bring peace in the valley. "Islam is our religion and we are Muslims," he told reporters in Peshawar, the provincial capital. "The state is responding to the aspirations of the people." Yet more than 80,000 of the 1.5 million residents have fled the region. "The Taliban are taking Swat back to the Dark Ages and the Pakistani government is now complicit in their horrific abuses," said Ali Dayan Hasan, senior South Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. "Tossing out the rights...