Word: strong
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From the start of the second period, Providence began to take the initiative behind strong offensive play by Beagan and Cammi Granato, sister of New York Rangers' forward Tony Granato. At 2:14 into the period, Granato took a pass from Beagan on the left side of the goal and pushed the puck past Harvard goalie Gillian D'Souza for the first point of the game...
...elections were prompted by rioting last April among Jordan's Bedouin community, the base of Hussein's support, to protest consumer price hikes. In addition, there was widespread suspicion that recent governments have been riddled with corruption. But the strong showing by the fundamentalists suggested a rejection of the secular Western values personified by the King himself...
Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
Such policies have evolved as the expression of a basic social value: that the traditional family, with its economic interdependence, is the foundation of a strong society. But what about a gay couple? They might be similarly dependent on each other, economically and emotionally. Yet no state in the U.S. allows them to marry legally, and nowhere are they offered the same medical, pension, tax and legal advantages as married heterosexuals...
Aoun is too weak to expel the Syrians himself but strong enough to create havoc. Last week his backers rioted and even roughed up their own religious leader, the pro-Moawad Maronite Patriarch...