Word: sustaining
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...Since the new clashes erupted on Sunday, gangs have tossed their enemies alive off 15-story buildings, shot down one another's children, and burst into hospitals to finish off wounded foes lying helplessly in bed. The revenge motive alone could now be enough to sustain the civil...
...Guha intertwines biographies of political leaders with anecdotes that show how ordinary Indians have helped to sustain their extraordinary body politic. During the Emergency, he notes, when public dissent was curbed and newspapers were censored, an article published in an economic magazine under the innocuous title "Livestock Problems in India" began with the line: "There are at present 580 million sheep in the country." It was a premature judgment, for those same sheep, ultimately, did not relinquish their freedoms, nor have they limited their democratic aspirations to simply voting at the polls. They have been behind a whole host...
...Williams will probably keep plugging along. He is "hopeful," he told Time, but not "absolutely confident" that the whole structure of Anglicanism can be kept together. And if it should fall apart around his shoulders, leaving him standing in the rubble of his calling? Would he be able to sustain the blow? "Well, yes," Williams said, and then took a long pause. "Yes. Because I trust my God and I believe that whatever mistakes I make and whatever disasters may occur, there is always grace...
...last 10, 15 years, we frankly have not had the full faculty strength needed to sustain the program,” Graham says. “We need a stronger, larger faculty to handle the undergraduates well...
...putting teams away,” Walsh said. “I thought we had enough pitching to get the job done, but we just weren’t putting enough guys on base.”March snows and April showers certainly didn’t help Harvard sustain any kind of offensive rhythm. The team missed a weekend of games during its strenuous nonconference schedule in Florida, then had several matchups in April postponed or cancelled, including its always anticipated Beanpot game at Fenway Park. “The team was really starting to hit its stride...