Word: provee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the 12th generation at Harvard to the first-generation at any college at all, living with a legacy means having something to prove. The students profiled in the following pages each came to Harvard with a legacy of sorts: from an older sister’s shadow and a grandfather’s prestige to potential on the basketball court. These are the legacies people bring with them to school, the definitive experiences and personal histories that shape these students’ decision to come here in the first place...
Well, there’s a lot for the region to prove, and the people defend themselves by going overboard in most anything they do. In Michigan, especially in the Upper Peninsula and western parts of the state, the hunting and gun culture is celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture...
Unfortunately, the commission has not rejected a proposal that would allow universities to comply with Title IX by conducting regular surveys of their student bodies to assess interest in athletics. But this implies that while men do not have to prove their interest in sports, women must do so in order to have equal rights to play. What’s more, interest surveys could hurt attempts to recruit female athletes. There will be no motivation to encourage participation of women but rather every motivation to discourage...
...given match, Corl’s sizable weight disadvantage could prove disastrous for him—if he does not shoot his move quickly and deeply enough, his opponent is able to lean his weight on him and wear Corl...
...camps would easily agree that Iraq has failed to account for that proportion of his prohibited weapons not destroyed by UN inspectors in the early 1990s, but the "old" Europeans are skeptical on Anglo-American claims about an Iraqi nuclear program, and dismissive of Washington's efforts to prove a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. So, while for Blair and Bush the greatest danger is doing nothing about Saddam, their opponents see the remedy of a U.S.-led invasion and occupation as posing far more danger to the region and even, ultimately, the West than any threat currently posed...