Word: riled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think the game is really about momentum,” Markley said. “The more energy you can bring to the court, the more energy from the bench, the more energy from the fans, whatever you can do to rile your team up is eventually what’s going to rule the game...
...Grayson and Bachmann, the objective is both to rally their loyalists and to rile the other side. Cable news embraces this sort of stuff, having turned August into the summer of town-hall fury. The liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann joyfully turned Bachmann into a "worst person in the world," just as Grayson became a star of conservative broadcasting as a sort of public enemy No. 1. "They gave us enormous free media exposure," Grayson says of his political opponents after his "die quickly" performance. "They were running my speech unedited on Fox for an entire...
...issue of same-sex marriage in DC as yet another opportunity to use a traditional wedge issue to wage political warfare, be it to advance the prospects of progressive candidates in left-leaning districts, drive a wedge between socially conservative minorities and the sociallyliberal Democratic Party, or rile up the base of the Republican Party in advance of 2010’s midterm elections...
Under normal circumstances, it takes a case of national importance to rile the Supreme Court during its summer recess. But in the words of an old axiom about capital punishment, "death is different." And so, on a sleepy mid-August Monday, Aug. 17, the court - over a strong dissent - dusted off an antique tool, unused for nearly half a century, to force a new hearing into the slow-rolling fate of a Georgia death-row prisoner named Troy Davis. In the process, the court has opened up new questions about the death penalty: most crucially, how far the courts must...
...Well, you know, the sermon has already started, so everybody will be paying attention to that. You won’t be taking anyone’s seat.” Thou shalt not lie.“Miss Winnie, I’s not goin’ to rile anybody up today.”“You wouldn’t be—you won’t!” Thou shalt not bear false witness. “And if even if you did upset your friends, my father wouldn’t have...