Word: treading
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...often the case, it seems clear that it was the protestors’ message, more than anything else, that led the city to tread on their Constitutionally protected rights. To the Court and to us, this emphasizes all the more the imperative to vociferously guard our freedoms, especially against a rapidly changing world—a reality some politicians are far too eager to use to restrict the liberties of the people. As Tjoflat writes, “We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely...
...Elsewhere, Winton can seem to tread water. Using Vic as a narrative thread for otherwise disparate stories, Damaged Goods and Reunion, in particular, feel padded out. And reading about the marital difficulties of Vic and Gail can be as interesting as a bout of unsuccessful whale watching, to which his characters are also prone. Otherwise, trimmed of its middle-aged spread, The Turning is as lissome as Winton's best prose...
...people, voice strong opinions on education. Specifically, wade into the topic of government funding of private schools. By encompassing children, religion and ideology, as well as concepts of fairness, entitlement and sacrifice, it pushes buttons like a madman. Which is why politicians have tended to tread carefully around...
...than two miles from the office of the new Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy inside the fortified Green Zone. It centers on Haifa Street, a once busy thoroughfare that has become the most feared stretch of Baghdad: a vicious insurgent sanctuary where U.S. and Iraqi government forces cannot tread except to shoot their way in and out. The battle for Haifa Street is illustrative of the wider challenges facing U.S. forces across Iraq, which will remain even if the U.S. manages to quell the uprising in Najaf led by Muqtada al-Sadr. After 17 months in Iraq, U.S. forces...
...John Bagnall's "Don't Tread On My Rosaries...