Word: looser
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned by parliamentarians, who were defecting to Yanukovych?s better funded and organized Party of the Regions and its coalition partners. That coalition now has 258 votes against the Orange alliance's 202. If it musters 300 deputies in the Rada, it will have...
...Roman Catholic and Protestant amalgam, it has often seemed like a mini-experiment in what a global Christian church might look like: one that managed to span the distance between incense-saturated Catholic-style rite and tongues-talking low-church Protestantism, that eschewed hyperdetailed doctrinal tests to maintain a looser Christian understanding, adjusted at regular meetings under the low-voltage, first- among-equals leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury. One of the reasons Akinola is both controversial and potentially important is that as the gay issue stretches this understanding past the pain threshold, he is a man unafraid...
...SLOPPIER WITH YOUR SCHEDULE "If you keep a tight calendar and you're not a dentist or a hair stylist, try being looser and not packing as many things in," says Freedman. A less structured date book makes it easier to adapt to inevitable surprises and affords you freedom to just go with the flow...
...many conservatives, especially the Evangelicals who were so crucial to Bush's re-election in 2004. None of the top three potential Republican candidates considering a bid to succeed Bush has a record that makes the right entirely comfortable. Senator John McCain originally opposed Bush's tax cuts, supports looser immigration policies, voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and was an architect of the deal under which Senate Democrats retained their right to filibuster Bush's judicial nominees. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in favor of gun control, abortion rights and same-sex civil unions...
...night’s end, one audience member wasn’t quite “going with” the show’s venue, citing a preference for the looser atmosphere that prevailed in an earlier, un-ticketed society event in a crowded Winthrop House common room...