Word: stoppingly
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...Parker's sexuality] was a factor, but not enough of a factor to stop her. We are talking about a candidate who has been in public life for 12 years. Everyone knows her. You had an entire race where no one ever questioned whether she was good at her job." - Jay Aiyer, a chief of staff to former Mayor Lee Brown (New York Times...
Roberts, however, continued to make non-medical claims. Before an audience of 6,000 at ORU in 1987, the evangelist said, "I've had to stop a sermon, go back and raise a dead person," adding good-naturedly, "It did improve my altar call that night." Roberts provided no details. Later his son Richard expanded the revivification claim, asserting that in 50 or 60 cases, Oral and other ministers had raised the dead. It was, perhaps, not that great a leap from one of the original miracles that helped make Roberts' name in the 1950s: he claimed to have prayed...
...University of Michigan will probably take a similar approach when its ban takes effect in July 2011. "We don't have a desire to give tickets or levy punishments," says Robert Winfield, the school's chief health officer. "We want to encourage people to stop smoking, set a good example for students and make this a healthier community...
Koch said that they have hired two drivers to trade off, so the band won’t have to stop. They also plan on taking a warmer, southerly route to avoid slippage...
Copenhagen delegates who find their motivation flagging during a long evening session on the finer points of cap and trade could do far worse than to stop in for a meal at Noma. At chef Rene Redzepi's astonishing restaurant, dinner begins with a tiny quail egg served on a bed of smoldering hay (all the better to infuse the lush yolk with the haunting flavors of barnyard and smoke). In both its sustainably raised, locally foraged credentials, and its all-around deliciousness, the egg is Noma's small but potent culinary reminder of why saving the planet matters...