Word: redeeming
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...Gilmour is out to redeem the ICS, and the portrait that emerges in his book is of a bureaucracy that was as efficient, fair-minded and honest as its reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policymakers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have...
...matter of pride in the fourth quarter and late in the third because the lead was so large,” Samuelson said. “I think it was about playing with more intensity and having nothing to lose.” The Crimson will look to redeem itself next Saturday at home against Dartmouth in its final regular-season and Ivy League game. “I think the goal all year has been to play each game one at a time,” Anderson said. “This [could be] a big win?...
...quip drew laughter and playful boos from the near-capacity crowd, all of whom seemed to get the joke immediately. Dershowitz countered by calling Moses a “terrorist” who tried to achieve his political ends through biological warfare, and tried to redeem the ruler’s reputation. “Pharaoh has been victimized by a small Jewish lobby,” Dershowitz said, later adding, “He did try to kill Jewish people, but no harm, no foul.” The kosher-for-Passover crowd might have been biased against...
It’s not just the age-old rivalry or the good competition that makes the Harvard men’s baseball team so eager for its trip to New Haven this weekend. It’s the chance to redeem itself after a humbling loss and get back to its winning ways...
...over 50% of Thai voters kept the faith with the ruling Thai Rak Thai party, especially in the poor countryside where Thaksin's healthcare and housing subsidies have been very popular. But the opposition boycott of the elections and nonstop protests sapped the ballot?s power to redeem Thaksin...