Word: regard
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...likely affected by substantial changes in the house transfer process. By introducing new restrictions into the transfer procedure, the Faculty Committee on House Life has made switching houses less attractive. In the past, we have stood consistently against policies, such as randomization, that severely, restrict student choice with regard to living situations. Similarly, we are now concerned about the new house transfer policy, one which has gone a step further in undermining students' ability to have even a bare minimum of input regarding where they will live...
...more heed than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...
...moment he took office, he has ricocheted between the irreconcilable demands of his ideology and his ambition. He has always damned the basic principle of exchanging land for peace. But he is just as eager to succeed--to win power, to stay in power, to earn history's regard--and he has been savvy enough to recognize there is no going back. Peace is what a majority of Israel's voters want, and a Prime Minister wishing to stay in office had better deliver...
...John expect his readers to accept his heavenly portrayal--and his subsequent spectacular descriptions of the Beast, Armageddon, the Last Judgment and Christ's final triumph--as the literal truth? Most scholars today regard his heaven, at least, as symbolic and mystical, its images painstakingly retrieved from the Old Testament and reorganized to frame an allegorical argument rather than an actual detailed reality of the next world. The same applies to hundreds of other heavenly visions generated by various holy men and women in the next two centuries that were eventually excluded from Scripture but some of which nonetheless exerted...
...women. Yet those who reach the Pure Land, as East Asian Buddhists call it, know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven jeweled palaces, and have fine objects, smells, tastes and sensations, yet they do not regard this as pleasure...[and] seek only to leave that place." Nirvana, the ultimately selfless Buddhist goal of nonbeing, is beyond paradise. Annemarie Schimmel, the great Western scholar of Islam, would agree. She wrote, "Once the journey to God is finished, the infinite journey in God begins...