Word: martyrizing
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...image. "If names had been stones," Wells said, "I'd be black and blue or dead." Though the panel ruled that Wells could remain in the organization, Bost later refunded Wells' $15 membership fee and a $100 contribution he had made. The Perot alumni network depicted Wells as a martyr for the cause...
...during the standoff. "He's playing a role that his followers have cast him in." In the end, Koresh and his flock may have magnified one another's needs. He looked to them to confirm his belief that he was God's appointed one, destined for a martyr's death. They looked to him to bring their spiritual wanderings to a close. In the flames of last week, they all may have found what they were searching...
Parents can be tougher. Some will try to martyr themselves over your homosexuality, and most will pressure you to go back into the closet or to "go for help." They usually believe they are acting out of concern for your happiness. But the concern often masks an even greater fear that they may have "caused" your gayness. That may lead them to assume a spurious responsibility for straightening you out, or at the very least to pressure you into solving everyone's "problem" by having you deny it again. This is tiresome and painful, and almost nothing you say will...
...something more dramatic. In January, one week before his appearance before the federal immigration court in Newark, he said he wanted to return to Egypt if he was deported. "If they kill me," he said of his possible return, "that will be a certificate that I am a martyr...
...other hand, some women from Nicaragua and other parts of Latin America were proud of being raped in war because their political beliefs told them that they had given their bodies to the revolution. Rape as sacrifice: the crime creates a living martyr...