Word: obey
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Student athletes would probably never go that far; they have been programmed to obey, not rebel. The elite ones also have the option of abandoning school before their eligibility expires and signing a pro contract, something they are doing in ever increasing numbers after ever decreasing course hours. That's one of the reasons the NCAA is finally looking into granting intercollegiate athletes, many of whom come from disadvantaged backgrounds, some financial relief. Other reasons are their susceptibility to glad-handing agents and boosters, the alarming number of incidents of petty theft and hostility involving jocks--just check today...
...companies "trafficking" in their property seized by the Castro regime, and Iran-Libya sanctions, which bar U.S. financing and export rights to foreign firms making new investments in Libyan or Iranian oil and gas, are something different. They threaten to punish private individuals outside the U.S. who do not obey laws passed by Congress...
...provoked Hutu extremist politicians to conceive a plan that would rid the country of all Tutsi, even the young. To incite peasants into murdering their neighbors, Hutu leaders played on historical fears of a return to Tutsi hegemony and capitalized on a uniquely hierarchical social structure, in which peasants obey their chiefs however chilling the command. Competition for land in what has traditionally been Africa's most densely populated region further egged on the would-be killers. In three months of 1994, nearly a million civilians were butchered...
...resolved through Billy Graham. Billy and Ruth had not been overbearing about Franklin's religious life, but on his 22nd birthday in 1974, he recalls, his father confronted him, saying "You can't continue to play the middle ground. Either you're going to choose to follow and obey him or reject him." Feeling resentful, Franklin left shortly afterward to assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great amnesty clause, Romans 8: 1: "There is therefore...
...they go to all this trouble to discredit him? Why worry themselves about something they say is of little importance? Could it be that they want to make a name for themselves as being wise or they wish to be free of any responsibility to obey God? The quickest way is to pretend he doesn't exist. What they are saying is nothing new. Many hammers have beaten on the old anvil, but those hammers are gone; the anvil is still around. I am particularly concerned not that they will damage the anvil but that their listeners may naively mistake...