Word: graduality
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...will be reborn. The problem with that is that all of those signs are external. She really wants God to sweep her away so that she won't have to be responsible or change from within at all. The real transformation is going to be more gradual and have more to do with work on the part of the individual, unfortunately. But Sharon has that romance about God. She even compares it to the way some women have romance about men. She thinks that when you meet the right person, he'll just sweep you away...
...areas where we are in agreement are substantial and can make a very important difference." Paris agrees that concord could at last be poised to overwhelm conflict, and cites what may be an inadvertent partnership during the past three administrations as a sign of progress. "There has been a gradual consensus building over the past 10 years: Clinton's education package picked up on pieces of George Bush's plan, and now George W. Bush is appropriating bits of Clinton's plan for his own proposal...
...strikes certainly project a get-tough image and give an early shove to Saddam, but they don't do much for the Bush administration's primary current objective in the Gulf region - halting the gradual collapse of sanctions against Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell heads for the Middle East next week, hoping to build Arab support for a more limited sanctions package targeted specifically at denying Baghdad access to military equipment and technology that could be used in developing weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. appears to have recognized that the current comprehensive sanctions package is bound to collapse...
...first third of the book describes the gradual downfall of Solomon Dorai, the patriarch of the clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful...
...world? Not yet. Abortion foes are campaigning against physicians who prescribe it, and even some doctors point out that an RU-486-induced abortion is expensive (the pills alone cost $240) and not as effective as the surgical procedure. Still, expect the drug to have a growing, if gradual, impact...