Word: instruct
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...eight times. But the pig-man, deaf to the music, can’t help but succumb to his rage. The final scene shows him angrily setting a vehicle on fire, then staring into the destruction. Some music videos are made purely to entertain, while others are made to instruct. By using the extended allegorical image of the swine to represent sloth, greed, and wickedness, and mixing with it the features and body of a man, González provocatively suggests that our animal nature is closer to the surface than we think...
...high-tech answer to the problem came two years ago when West Virginia University studied the health effects of an exergaming system called Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)--interactive games that instruct kids to use their feet to tap buttons on a sensor mat. After a pilot program found the games were beneficial, the state vowed to install consoles in all its public schools by next year. (It didn't hurt the study's credibility that it was funded in part by an insurance company, not by the gamemaker.) Since then, other districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers...
...Does Congress pass legislation to instruct the President on the details of a withdrawal? Do they dictate terms on how to involve NATO or other allies? Or even on how to negotiate with Iran and Syria over the withdrawal? And what if something happens to U.S. troops during the pullout or Iraq rapidly plunges into a bloody civil war as U.S. troops are leaving? Who is to blame? Bush? Congress...
...students blocked roads with burning tires and chanted "Down With Musharraf." Clerics at several radical mosques are denouncing what they see as law enforcement agencies attacking fellow Muslims. The banned militant group Tehrik Nifaz-Shariat-e-Mohammadi has used FM radio stations in a district north of Peshawar to instruct its followers to carry out jihad against the government, as has a radical cleric in the northern district of Swat...
...post went on, in chain letter form, to instruct its recipient to “hit 15 pretty girls on your friends list and let them know they are pretty.” After recovering from the initial disappointment that I had not received this post—apparently, my friends don’t think I’m very attractive—I was left puzzled. Though I knew that post was mostly just a harmless saying thought up by some frivolous girl somewhere out in cyberspace, I couldn’t shake the feeling that such...