Word: turning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...really does believe that God has a purpose in having him charged with this crime," Carney said, adding that his client has a great deal of religious faith. "He doesn't know what that purpose is yet, but he is confident it will turn out all right...
...received on the eve of his investiture: a report effectively designating Bulgaria the most corrupt and crime-ridden member of the European Union. And for good measure, it warned that Bulgaria, already the E.U.'s poorest member state, could slip under the sway of Russia if it fails to turn itself around...
...more bureaucratic manager. It’s true that a manager does make strategic decisions about how to use that talent; the foundation of his job description includes fitting together a lineup and deciding when to make mid-game substitutions, especially of the pitcher. But while strategic decisions may turn the tide in one or two games, they’re hardly enough to mean the difference between a good team and a bad team over the course of a season...
Familiar strangers turn into characters in my mental summer narrative. There’s the tough guy with a reddish brown ponytail climbing the subway stairs. A week later, again wearing a denim shirt and jeans, he gently leads a lady down King’s Road. Every morning the woman in an orange vest grins around sticking-out teeth, blithely handing out free newspapers. There is a man with a two and a half foot beard selling novels on Lamma Island. A shopkeeper in front of my apartment explains how her dresses can also be skirts. The squat blond...
...page report, entitled On the Brink of the Precipice, blames the state for failing to protect its citizens. "The government of Kenya is responsible for failing to intervene in the prevention of conditions that led to insecurity and lack of safety that in turn forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes," the report read. "The responsibility for the massive eviction first goes to the state for failing to take steps to prevent their occurrence and, when forceful eviction started, for failing to take urgent steps to prevent its escalation." (Read about President Barack Obama's ancestral village in Kenya...