Word: explaining
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While much of this ambiguity is likely to remain after Tuesday's speech, Obama will be obligated to explain how he views the ongoing international violence and shifting threats. Expect the President to combine a continued determination for victory against terrorist threats with a cautious explanation of the difficult challenges ahead. President Bush did himself great political harm by repeatedly offering rosy projections about the war in Iraq that later proved to be unfounded. Obama, who inherited Bush's military engagements, is not likely to repeat that mistake...
...prelates. In the late 1990s, while serving as rector of the Pontifical North American College, the largest English-speaking seminary in Rome, he was a major man about town and go-to guy for U.S. journalists covering the Vatican, at ease sharing a beer or providing simple words to explain complicated Church doctrine...
Wait, what were the rules about "sexual privacy?" What's the "toilet issue?" Can you explain this...
...when the majority of books were published anonymously. He reclaims these authors’ private lives from obscurity, awakening afresh their dreams of fame or their longing for privacy and their motives for anonymity that have been forgotten in the intervening centuries.Mullan begins his book by seeking patterns to explain the psychology behind various author’s motives for publishing without attribution. His case studies read like a Who’s Who of English literature—from anonymous authors like Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Walter Scott to those like Charles Dodgson (better known...
...There are, of course, limits to the effects of this form of diplomacy. The Shah 'Abbas exhibition isn't likely to convince visitors that Iran should have access to nuclear arms. But in chronicling the nation's former glory, it may help explain why many Iranians feel entitled to them. Curator Canby says there's also a bigger point. "I don't think of it in terms of redressing public opinion," she says. "Museum relationships are based on something other than politics...