Word: proclaimer
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...also concerned with Bush’s determination to proclaim democracy established as soon as possible—before Iraq is adequately prepared for it. After prematurely declaring “mission accomplished” a year and several months ago, Bush has set a firm date for the transfer of power to local authorities—June 30, just weeks from today. Mired in the paranoia of an election year, this deadline ensures ample time to dissociate his presidency from the ongoing violence and volatile events on the ground. The president will be able to blame the mess?...
...Nicaragua fell to Leftist rebels. He shook up Washington with his simple faith in the free market and tax cuts to solve economic problems, and with the projection of military power, directly or via proxies, as the means of taking the fight to the Soviet Union, which he famously proclaimed an "Evil Empire" with which there could be no accommodation. He ran up massive deficits in order to pile on the pressure by spending billions of dollars on new weapons systems with which the Soviets struggled to keep up. There was, at the same time, plenty of statesmanlike accommodation, particularly...
...when he is killed in a duel. With her limpid eyes and languid limbs, Rose Byrne was born to play Irina - as she did in a shrill but memorable Sydney Theatre Company production in 2001. Like a sunflower starved of light, her wilting heroine had barely enough energy to proclaim, as Irina does, "We must work...
...audience loved it, calling the band back for two encores, and prompting Godin to proclaim, “You’re the best crowd we’ve had since the beginning of the tour, and I swear I never say that...
...living. At one of those churches, Gulf Breeze United Methodist Church in Gulf Breeze, Fla., there have been as many as 110 such groups. Before the Purpose-Driven philosophy came along, says the Rev. Chris Nelson of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minn., "the idea was for ministers to proclaim the gospel and let people figure out what to do with it in their daily lives. Now we are far more application oriented." When Bethlehem Lutheran member Jean Westberg lost her job as a marketing executive three years ago, she found inspiration in Warren's teaching that people who want...