Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...release of McArthur's comments, the Globestory implied, was calculated to coincide with therelease of Rudenstine's report. The story painteda picture of a Business School, under McArthur,trying to throw off the yoke of Rudenstine'sleadership, and trying to excise itself from anysignificant degree of participation in the funddrive...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...
...past 30 years, most Caribbean nations have been independent and, having thrown off the yoke of colonialism, have moved into attempts at economic self-sufficiency...
Serbia remained under the Ottoman yoke until the end of the 19th century. Then, during the First Balkan War in 1912, Serbia and Greece banded together with several other small states in the area to drive the Turks back to the gates of Constantinople. The victors' rush to divide the spoils led to the Second Balkan War. The great powers of Europe stepped in and redrew...
...Alving's books and her underlying individuality conflict with the pastor's faith in the divine; he considers the yoke of duty as the primary characteristic for a wife and refuses even to listen to her contrary opinions...