Word: summoning
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...dreamed of that exact outcome. But I like to believe he would have appreciated the irony. Humor, ambiguity, complexity, compassion--all were part of his character. And as Lincoln called once upon the better angels of our nature, I believe that he is calling still, across the ages, to summon some measure of that character, the American character, in each of us today...
Most important, thousands of ordinary Pakistanis, who had cheered her arrival last spring, remained silent after her arrest, apparently out of apathy. She is charismatic enough to draw crowds but not strong enough to summon her countrymen to the barricades. This fact was not lost on Zia, who has never been particularly popular but has given the country a decade of relative stability...
There's a perfect song on Gimme Fiction, the new album from the chronically underrated Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. It's called I Summon You, and its narcotic powers are such that only after you have pressed the repeat button for the sixth or seventh time will it occur to you that there's not a single original thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight...
They will be climbing mountains with a maximum altitude of 18,000 feet, attempting to take the safest routes up these uncharted mountains. They will be able to summon a helicopter in the case of serious injury, but they will be 120 miles away from the nearest village and will have to get the injured climber off the mountain and back to their base camp first...
Programs called "worms" are capable of altering a system's fundamental operations or shutting it down entirely. They delete specific portions of a computer's memory, thus creating a hole of missing information. Another type of software demon, called a "virus," instructs the host machine to summon its stored files. Each time the machine does so, the program copies itself onto the software. The computer's memory can soon turn into a mass of confusion...