Word: manifests
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...pottery, wheat and barley, pushing aside the hunter-gatherers," says Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. Further back, archaeology was harnessed to political ends, subsumed in Nazi Germany to the dogma of Aryan man, and in most other places in Europe to a kind of manifest destiny...
Respect for other faiths was manifest in Islamic Jerusalem. When Caliph Umar, one of Muhammad's successors, conquered the Jerusalem of the Christian Byzantines in 638, he insisted that the three faiths of Abraham coexist. He refused to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher when he was escorted around the city by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch. Had he done so, he explained, the Muslims would have wanted to build a mosque there to commemorate the first Islamic prayer in Jerusalem...
That was two weeks ago. The Sinphar Supra Softgels have yet to manifest any effect. There's no extra lead in my pencil and, I can only hope, none in the rest of my system either. (There have been frequent reports of herbal remedies containing dangerous levels of lead.) The spray turned out to be an awful product. It comes in a floral-print bottle and you're directed to spray it on liberally a few minutes before making love. The problem was that my brand didn't merely desensitize: it burned like Ben Gay. This made...
...Professor Kma Usop struggles again to explain the beheadings, the cutting out of victim's hearts, the slaughter of children and babies. "They are in a trance, possessed by something. Why did it manifest itself in such a form? They saw something evil and in our culture you must destroy evil, so they take down the swords and spears hanging on the walls and revert to the ways of our grandfathers...
...primary motor driving Beijing's military spending. The primary function of the People's Liberation Army lies not across the Taiwan Strait or anywhere else in the region; China's military's primary purpose remains maintaining order at home. And as the social consequences of its transition to capitalism manifest in mounting threats to domestic stability, the military becomes an increasingly indispensable instrument of power to the leadership in Beijing. But the military is not unaffected by the social turmoil arising from the economic changes, and ratcheting up its budget may look like a sound investment for the increasingly nervous...