Word: unshaken
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...scarcely likely to cede what it has traditionally seen as its prerogatives, namely, directing foreign and defense policy. Already moves by Zardari to draw closer to Kabul and New Delhi have encountered resistance. For the Pakistan Army, India remains the principal enemy. That view is likely to remain unshaken as long as it perceives threats from the eastern border and Indian influence in Afghanistan...
...seen through the glistening musculature, seen through the radiant curls, seen through to the very center, to the black void that gaped and groaned in place of a red beating heart. She knew that she had passed a spiritual test, but she also knew that she was not completely unshaken. Even with the righteousness of the Lord coursing through her blood, with all her health and strength, her legs still quivered slightly as she ran. Slowly, as though led by a will stronger than her own, Roxanna found herself drawn away from the Florentine villa into the trees and toward...
...call it a trip of a lifetime, since it also included visits with wounded soldiers in Germany - a stop the McCain campaign repeatedly charged Obama with refusing to make during his trip overseas in July. Asked if she'd ever met a head of state, she raised her unshaken hand like a badge of honor: "We've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time," she said. "It is for no more politics as usual and somebody's big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where...
...Gorbachev and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup. Yeltsin's political instincts were still sharp, and he raced to the scene, outside Russia's White House. He climbed atop a tank and urged defiance. The putsch failed. Gorby returned to Moscow, but when he declared his unshaken faith in the Soviet state, Russia was Yeltsin's. By Christmas, the U.S.S.R. was done. An era of change had begun...
...fledgling party's successes, however, made little immediate practical difference. The K.M.T.'s iron hold on power remains unshaken, and there is no guarantee that the government will allow the D.P.P. to continue functioning. Though President Chiang Ching-kuo promised last October that he would lift martial law, which has been in effect for 38 years, and permit the formation of new political parties, the changes have yet to be approved. But even when they are on the books, the D.P.P. could continue to remain outside the law because it refuses to meet one key government requirement: acceptance of Taiwan...