Word: renews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces trial for allegedly engineering $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. But of increasing concern is the credibility of the CIA, the Justice Department and the Bush Administration. Even if it amounts to a mere bureaucratic botch, the tussle over who misled the public allows Democrats to renew calls for a special prosecutor to examine whether the White House tried to cover up its efforts to coddle Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Kuwait...
Economies now depend on the relentless search for new needs, new markets. Democracy by its nature spurs change: no other system replaces leaders and rewrites the social contract with such speed because none other presupposes that government renew its right to govern virtually every day. The rise of individualism across the world speeds change because ideas about how to live now emanate from millions of minds rather than a handful of institutional authorities. Communications technology is eroding the meaning of nationality, ethnicity and borders...
Last spring, the city council voted in a special meeting not to renew Connarton's contract with the city...
Surely the Lord shall visit the pious and shall call the righteous by name. His spirit shall hover over the poor; by his strength he shall renew the faithful. He shall glorify the pious upon the throne of the eternal kingdom. He shall release the captives, restore sight to the blind, make straight those who are bent double . . . He shall heal the wounded, resurrect the dead, preach glad tidings to the poor...
...School of Education had to begrudgingly renew its search for a dean...