Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort his family from their frontline village, descended on Banja Luka after days on the road with little more than the clothes they wore. Thousands now live in the squalid, muddy "collection centers" that ring the town...
...think a World Series ring would influence the Seattle brass to stay? As the Devils said, don't book your tickets to Nashville just...
Snipers on the ground have claimed they followed standard policy, not the orders they were given. That doesn't have the ring of truth for me, especially since it conveniently confuses the issue of who is actually accountable for the actions at the siege...
...these two industries are allowed to enter the competitive ring and fight it out for the loyalty of the consumers, wouldn't that instead lead to lower rates? If true competition is allowed (i.e., cable companies can no longer maintain government sponsored monopoly in certain regions of the U.S., and they actually have to deal with other companies), how could a company that raises rates and provides inane programming survive? It would lose its customers to better cable services, thereby destroying its profits and, eventually, the entire company...
...knew our formal role here: we were to establish a "presence," a word with a nice sophisticated ring. More specifically, we were supposed to engage the Viet Cong to keep them from moving through the A Shau Valley and fomenting their insurgency in the populated coastal provinces. But Hieu's words were the immediate reality. The base camp at A Shau was there to protect an airstrip that was there to supply the outpost...