Word: refering
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...ites have finally made their numerical superiority translate into political power, leaving many Sunnis bitter and resentful over their diminished status. It didn't help that many of the new Shi'ite ruling parties have ties to Iran, feeding Sunni suspicions about Shi'ite loyalties. In private, some Sunnis refer to Shi'ites as Iranians or Persians--in other words, traitors...
...each other’s rooms,” Moretzsohn said.“We try to eat dinner together after every practice and love hanging out outside of the basketball scene,” Rollins said.More than best friends, the group has grown so close that they refer to each other as family.“We’re like sisters,” Tay said.“We started planning an idea that we would have a get together as a freshman basketball ‘family’ in every one of our hometowns. Each...
...university ought to be. Not just any university, but the university I’ve argued is the most important in the world. I don’t think that conversation is going to end. President Bok, whom I haven’t had enough conversations about to refer to as Derek, will come in again as a conciliatory figure as he did in ’71. He’s not going to be the guy who maps out the agenda, because that would be unfair to whoever takes over. So, in another year, this discussion will happen...
...astoundingthat the mediacontinue to refer to illegal immigrants as "migrants" and "undocumented immigrants." The fact is, people who break the U.S.'s immigration laws are committing illegal acts, whatever their reason, and they should be labeled consistently as illegals...
...Iraq have helped close the gender gap. In today's Army, nobody gallantly holds the humvee door open for a female, and a woman is expected to carry as much (Swenson's full gear weighs 115 lbs.) and to shoot as well as a man. Women service members refer to themselves either as "combat Barbies"--those who fight the losing battle of trying to look pretty in Iraq's sandstorms and winter sludge--or "hooah girls," named after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says Sergeant Brandy Everett, 25, a self...