Word: ire
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...right of Christians to proselytize in Muslim lands would touch off a similar response in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, frontline allies in the war on terror. The Abdul Rahman case highlights the limits on the freedom the U.S. has brought to Afghanistan, and will raise the ire of the Evangelical Christian political base of the GOP. But Washington will also be aware that the current political order may be as good as it gets right now, in terms of an Afghan government allied with the West. And if the priority is saving Mr. Rahman's life and preserving...
...Watkins took the witness stand wearing the same purple suit she sports on the website advertising her $30,000 speeches, and weathered the ire of defense attorneys, who implied her testimony was little more than another stop on her book tour, in an often testy afternoon...
...people here who are succeeding and not paying taxes, and public schools are failing because they're filled with people who are here, and, yes, they work in our houses, so we are conflicted, so we're not really going to raise too much ire." But I think that it's a much more mercenary thing that people are angry about. I really think it's money and pocketbooks...
...began counting cards in high school and soon mastered the game of blackjack. By keeping running indexes of revealed cards in his head, Liu gains a long-term mathematical advantage over the house. And by greatly increasing his chances of winning, Liu has aroused the ire of some powerful casino bosses. “I was barred from playing at a well-known Las Vegas casino,” Liu writes in an e-mail, “This happened several years ago, however, and it’s entirely possible that the casinos won’t know...
...women might account for the under-representation of women in positions of academic science. This incident catalyzed a series of Faculty meetings that culminated in an unprecedented vote of “lack of confidence.” More recently, Summers drew the Faculty’s ire for his dismissal of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and for lingering allegations of misconduct in his handling of a government lawsuit, implicating Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer ’82, that cost the University $26.5 million...