Word: zeal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cards in her favor: Germany has never had a female chancellor, nor one from East Germany, and her credibility as an economic liberalizer is enhanced because she is a former inhabitant of Soviet-controlled East Germany. Her program promised a strengthened transatlantic alliance to end the excessive anti-American zeal of the Schrder era. Above all, it aimed to relaunch the German economy through liberalization, easily the most discussed issue in the pre-electoral debate...
Garcetti's zeal for photography reaches back "as far as I can remember," he says, though it heightened after the 1969 birth of his daughter Dana. Throughout his legal career he carried one camera loaded with black-and-white film in his pocket, another with color in his briefcase, and he took candid snaps of crazy street scenes, staid political events, even solemn police funerals. He attended night-school photography classes for more than four years and covered his office with his framed pictures but never considered publishing his work for fear of snarky criticism...
...famine is caused by a shortage of food. Sen pointed out that famine-struck areas often had enough food; the real culprit was a disturbance in the economic system?for instance, a sudden rise in prices?which made the food inaccessible. In his new book, Sen directs his iconoclastic zeal on the perception of India?held by many abroad, and also within the country?as a place with only one kind of culture, which is spiritual and otherworldly, and one kind of society, which is rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal. Sen points out that if Indians have historically been the world...
...left the three non-religious Gaza Strip settlements along the north of the fence. These ?secular? settlers moved without a fight because they were for the most part originally drawn to Gaza by the economic incentives offered by the government for living there, rather than by the religious settlers' zeal to ?redeem? the Holy Land. From the sky, we see children's swimming pools and bicycles in the gardens...
...smallest changes of his facial expression improves not only his own performance, but those of his colleagues as well. For example, Murray’s scenes with Wright are particularly enjoyable; the two characters exist in contrast—Murray with his world-weariness and Wright with his infectious zeal, and the result is a humorous and touching relationship. As different as these two characters are, their friendship is based on a strong mutual trust and respect—not to mention a thorough understanding of each other’s idiosyncrasies...