Word: retreatism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...When I walk my dog, I have a 20-dollar bill in one pocket and mace in the other," says Pedro, referring to "mugger money" she carries to hand over in hopes that an assailant will beat a quick retreat, and spray in case things turn uglier. "I've taken that initiative, but I think I need to go further," she says, citing a string of assaults in her quiet neighborhood near the French Quarter. "I would like to have a visible...
...target evades the attack with insouciant grace. Excited onlookers identify the amateur torero as a manager from the Casablanca Hotel, a sombrero's throw away. The boutique retreat is a haven where attentive staff just as skilfully deflect the challenges of everyday life from blissed-out guests. And the hotel, like the gleaming white village that envelops it, fuses local tradition with a modern and international sensibility. Gaucín is developing into a new Deia or Fornalutx: a magnet, just like those Mallorcan hot spots, for affluent north European bohemians who want to immerse themselves in Spanish culture without...
Before the Web, PWs say they had little chance to connect and commune. "There weren't networks," says Becky Hunter, 55, wife of the well-known pastor Joel Hunter of Orlando-based Northland, a Church Distributed. "There were denominational groups and retreat-type things." The Web, she says, offers more immediate and constant support. Hunter is president of the GPWN, spun off from the Global Pastors Network five years ago. "When we started researching other resources, we found there was just remarkably little available for the wife of the pastor. Our issues were so similar yet so private"--issues that...
...given permission by the chiefs to live on the land. Fiji High Court Justice Roger Coventry ruled the squatters could remain for the time being. Lingham says the decision may prompt thousands of squatters to refuse to move off private and government land. But landowners say they will not retreat. The Bhindi Brothers property company owns dozens of hectares in the Kumars' settlement. While they have tolerated squatters for years, a $20 million development is now planned for the area and Bhindi Brothers have issued eviction notices. General manager Sashi Dhanji says the company had negotiated with the government...
...educational mission”—a vague term at best—could potentially be banned under such terms. It’s unfortunate that this most inane incident has caused the greatest uproar, but regardless, the significance of the trial cannot be understated. The incremental retreat of student rights here represents a threat to the foundation of rights everywhere. We agree with Justice Samuel A. Alito, who said that claiming that schools can block any speech that interferes with their educational mission is “a very, very disturbing argument...