Word: fervors
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...teenager, Hunt adopted her father’s zealous anti-communist politics and her mother’s fervent brand of evangelical Christianity. She attended revivals and tried to convert strangers at beaches. Later in life, Hunt would redirect that fervor into both liberal philanthropic projects and politics...
...both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval in most polls. But even Republicans fret their loyalists have been discouraged by the Mark Foley scandal, and can't match the Democrats in passion. That fervor is being fueled by the bare-knuckled veterans who are heading up their House and Senate campaigns--New York Senator Charles Schumer and Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel--who have been urging their candidates to punch back at Bush directly on national security. And they have. In Rhode Island, Democratic Senate nominee...
Pundits have had a field day since Obama’s announcement. Even though the midterm election is in two weeks, the fervor with which political commentators have analyzed Obama’s prospects in 2008 reflects the magnitude of the next presidential election. It also suggests that Obama is no longer a rising star in the Democratic Party but “the star...
...network of prominent evangelical pastors who had been quietly working since 1998 to recruit thousands of other pastors to join the Bush team. After the election, however, those same pastors became accomplices in their own deception by not demanding that the President's actions in office match their electoral fervor...
...arms of God. Just because it isn't the God that many of us believe in does not detract from the sincerity or power of his faith. It is a faith that is real, all too real--gripping billions across the Muslim world in a new wave of fervor and fanaticism. All worries are past him, all anxiety, all stress. "Peoples, driven by their divine nature, intrinsically seek good, virtue, perfection and beauty," Ahmadinejad said at the U.N. "Relying on our peoples, we can take giant steps towards reform and pave the road for human perfection. Whether we like...