Word: tenderize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pesticides. Presidential Reprieve BOLIVIA Congress rallied behind besieged President Carlos Mesa, rejecting his offer to resign and agreeing to back his political program, including the creation of a controversial new energy law. Indigenous opposition leader Evo Morales said the months-long protests and street blockades that prompted Mesa to tender his resignation would continue unless the President agreed to raise the tariffs imposed on international energy companies...
Jackiw stood calmly and confidently in a twilight-blue shirt, his face only perturbed by the compression of his brow on particularly tender passages. The color of his violin so matched the dark mahogany of the theatre interior that his instrument seemed to disappear; he seemed to be performing a dance with...
Grief-stricken by the eventual death of her beloved father, who is played with by Voi Feseaitu in a performance of tender devotion, Viki runs away from her home and into the wilds of the jungle. In her forsaken state, Viki finds solace in her promise to her father. She finally realizes that she does, in fact, have the power to combine the integrity of her traditional values with the ambition of her Western education, and thus stay true to herself without abandoning her heritage...
...nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes." But he has his own, odd kind of principle. In the first season's most arresting scene, he smothers to death a preacher who is dying slowly of a brain tumor. The act is tender and cruel, merciful and selfish (the reverend is taking up a bed in the Gem), and McShane simply leaves us to ponder which motivation is dominant...
...political tension, arguing with Mitchell over school vouchers and gay marriage. Kremlin, Mitchell’s grizzled Russian mentor, strains their relationship by trying to get Mitchell out of politics and back on the jetpack. Even Mitchell’s mother appears for a few quirky-yet-tender moments, when the story flashes back to his childhood...