Word: heeling
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...Aware of the danger of isolating itself, the U.S. insists that it, too, favors, a diplomatic solution. But Washington's version of a "diplomatic solution" certainly includes sanctions to bring Iran to heel, while for many of Washington's European allies, and for such key Security Council powers as Russia and China, sanctions represent a slippery slide to confrontation. Iran is unlikely to change its position in response to the limited sanctions that will probably be adopted, and it knows that the international community is unlikely to risk the impact on world oil prices of cutting off Iran's crude...
...political factions--Shi'ite, Sunni, Kurdish and secular--agreed to get in the big tent together. Relieved, the Bush Administration announced that the participation of all groups, especially the recalcitrant Sunnis, would allow al-Maliki's government to succeed where the U.S. military had failed, in bringing to heel both the Sunni insurgency and the rising might of the Shi'ite militias. Never mind that the Prime Minister was himself a Shi'ite partisan until his nomination--whereupon he sought to reinvent himself as a nonsectarian leader--and that his party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington...
...Before that happens, these complex patterns will show up in Australia's popular culture. The characters in Footy Legends, a new film directed by Khoa Do, reflect that layering. On the surface, this feel-good tale is about a group of mates from the down-at-heel western suburbs of Sydney trying to win a football tournament; beyond this, it's a story about Vietnamese refugee Luc Vu's battle to retain custody of his little sister Anne after the death of their mother. In one sense, it's formulaic film-making (the triumph over adversity), but Footy Legends...
...sites like BETonSports.com. After all, for something considered illegal by the U.S. Department of Justice, online gambling has done pretty well against stiff odds. U.S. wagerers last year poured around $5.4 billion into the kind of offshore Internet gaming sites that the DOJ has been struggling to bring to heel. As one British online gaming firm boasted in a recent Times Square billboard: "EVERYBODY BETS." That may well be true, but the Justice Department is out to show that the luck of longtime winners like Carruthers and his firm can change overnight...
...savings could be used. But that should only happen in case of emergency. For I don't know whether these small savings are going to have to cover the children's education, in the event of my early death. If I thought otherwise, I would simply be a heel. So it cannot even come into consideration that 10 francs per day (= 4,000 francs per year) be paid for Tete. Accommodations for him have to be sought that are suited to my financial situation, and the same applies for my wife. For this does not involve a transitory situation...