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...constituents should not be surprised if they do lose Barrett in the future. The legislator has created a strong consolidated power base during his two-decade political career and that, supporters say, makes a higher office within his grasp...
...Even many of the hostages after some years of it could not understand it, could not grasp it. We need to understand these people, we've got to understand their motives, how their minds work...
...ending. Myatt and her siblings want to move Kingery to a Morgantown, Ky., nursing home so they can better watch over him. Says Myatt's brother Charles, a Morgantown resident: "We want to bring him back here, close to the family." Although he will probably never be able to grasp it fully, John Kingery has a lot of grandchildren and even great-grandchildren waiting to welcome...
Sometimes the band offers the listener some Spanish lyric and then translates them into easy-to-grasp English. In "She Gone" is the line: "On the sunny side of the street/en el lado soladio de tu calle." I am not sure of the intent here; maybe this is an allusion to U2's recent bilingual title: "Achtung Baby...
...romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held in its heart secrets beyond their grasp...