Word: reclaiming
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...plays recreating legendary battles and love stories of the Viking era has been increasing in recent years, there are still only a few thousand Danes who attend full-moon services to Norse gods and goddesses and other pagan rituals. And no-one has yet begun building longboats to reclaim past glories. Chances are that the Danish Viking nostalgia will be satisfied with reviving patronymic names...
...Jesus, “The Fast and the Furious” had Vin Diesel; Lohan and the apparently-possessed Volkswagen known as Herbie are, perhaps, heroes for our time. The plot, in which a disgraced Herbie is reluctantly rescued from the junk-heap and proceeds to reclaim his former glory as an unlikely racing star, is cute enough...
...meetings are part of a broad movement within the Faculty, voiced most forcefully in the no confidence vote, to reclaim control...
...Kirby defends his decision to reclaim the funds as necessary “to make sure we use these resources in the most coordinated way for the broader purposes of the faculty...
...would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops and some...