Word: thrusted
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...welcome” in his country, since France would not accept that “women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity.” While some have touted this move as a chance to remove women from the strictures thrust on them by an oppressive fundamentalist culture, others disagree...
...monster areas, health care and climate change. "He's killing me," says Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, referring to the hordes of special-interest groups that have camped on her doorstep and clogged her phone lines. Stabenow is smiling as she says it. She supports the broad thrust of Obama's initiatives. "But you can't believe all the groups that want to make their case. There are the doctors, the nurses, the cancer society," she continues, raising the specter of a conga line of disease groups bending her ear. "All of them have legitimate concerns. And that's just...
...main thrust of the legislation is to take the consumer-protection responsibilities (and consumer-protection regulators) now housed at the Federal Reserve and other banking agencies and give them their own new home. In trying to balance the joint responsibilities of protecting consumers and keeping banks safe and sound (that is, profitable), bank regulators have in the past decade failed at both. So the idea is that if we create an agency with consumer in the name and a clearer focus, we'll have a better shot at protecting consumers from dangerous, deceptively packaged financial products and keeping banks from...
...wound, Churchill and his team used a specially designed crossbow to fire stone-age projectiles at precise velocities at pig carcasses (a pig's skin and ribs are believed to be roughly as tough as a Neanderthal's). When he stabbed a pig carcass with the force of a thrust spear, Churchill found that the pig's ribs "were busted to hell. The high kinetic energy had caused a lot of damage in the area." But Shanidar 3 had a solitary rib puncture with no such damage. (See pictures: Happy 200th Darwin...
Although Ruggiero’s staging is masterful, his interpretation of the production, as stated in the playbill, misses the thrust of the show. Ruggiero puts the spotlight on the “layered relationships of King Arthur, Guenevere, and Lancelot rather than…some epic idea.” But the hero of “Camelot” is not Arthur himself; it is his institution: the rule...