Still, winning doesn’t feel like the right word today. After all, U.S. farmers have been forced to yield their Chinese soybean market to Brazil and are being assisted to the tune of more than $20 billion, borrowed from somewhere, perhaps even China. ..…
Crews: A larger proportion [of the force] comes from the Southeast U.S. than from any other region of the country — the so-called Bible Belt. ... ..…
“First of all, the word Zionism did not exist, and Theodor Herzl had not yet been born,” said Sarna, director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. . ... For Adams, by way of contrast, the Bible was a lifelong guidebook. In a letter written to his son..…
Early on, notably in the 1850s, women opened Pandora's box of their oppression, and out popped Bible — admonishing them to shut their mouths, never wear trousers, obey their husbands and accept everything about their condition. ..…
When asked to read a passage in class, I stumbled over each word, even though I knew the language well and had no trouble understanding what I was reading. ..…
If Israel isn't part of Judaism, neither is the Bible or God. . Third, anti-Zionists claim that Judaism is only a religion; therefore, Jews are only members of a religion, not a nation. But the Jews are called the 'nation of Israel' repeatedly in the Bible. ..…
“Recognition” is the key word here. It means that your organization is the bona fide representative of some group of people who have power sufficient to make an adversary or other party negotiate with them, and therefore must be dealt with as their voice. ..…
The first corporations that rushed into China were disappointed, and the word went out that the opportunity wasn’t as good as it looked. ..…
Hindutva represented a hardline form of Hindu nationalism, in which Muslims appeared as bellicose invaders”; and, “The book is today a Bible for Hindu nationalists,’ wrote the journalist Uday Mahurkar of Savarkar’s tract in 2015. ..…
Not only did the word “occupation” disappear from the political lexicon, even discussions of a “political solution,” which had been at the center of election campaigns for the past 40 years, have almost entirely evaporated. ..…
“Bandit” is, in Portugese, “bandido”— the same word Bolsonaro uses which English-language media translates as “criminal.” . ..…
For better or worse, Mykonos has pretty much become symbolic with the word “party.” . ..…
The plan includes retranslating the Bible to find its similarities with socialism. ..…
While looking for horses, French officers addressed Russians, saying this word cheval they were ragged and dirty. ... This word was in the language of Cherepovets, Yaroslavl, Velikiy Ustyug which means that the word did not have French origins since the peasants of these..…
Christian Zionists support Israel, supposedly, to hasten the end-times, when, as Bible professor Candida Moss writes, “Jews must convert or die.” ... Not only were European Jews deeply inhospitable to Christianity after the Holocaust, but the Israeli state impeded missionary work, placing sharp..…
Menashi added that Human Rights Campaign has exploited the slaying of Matthew Shepard for both financial and political benefit, one word about Jesse Dirkhising... ..…
The NRA, surprisingly, has moved from opposition to ERPOs to grudging support under public pressure, and President Trump has directly mentioned them as a solution,although his word means next to nothing on the issue. . ..…
“If there was any word for this particular meeting of seven very important countries, it was unity,” Trump said at a news conference Monday closing out the two-day gathering in the French resort of Biarritz. . ..…
Their faces heavy with fatigue, their clothes dirty and wrinkled, they only exchange an occasional word or two. . ..…
With the US-led invasion of Iraq going rather badly in 2004, it became clear to the occupation forces that something had to be done about that misunderstood “D” word; democracy would have to be sold, something that Freedom’s Land has not been particularly good at. . ..…
We see the word “authoritarianism” all over the US media, a blanket term employed to describe countries that the United States government currently considers as threats to its interests. ... The campaign to red-bait and blacklist anything associated with the word “communism” was..…
Sudan’s UN Ambassador Omer Mohamed Siddig told the council it’s time to shift from peacekeeping to peacebuilding in Darfur and to end restrictions on the government’s movement of arms and troops in and out of the region. . ..…
Finally, a word or two about this nonsensical demand, raised by the “Save Darfur” crowd, that China must somehow “extinguish the flames of genocide” supposedly carried out by the government of Sudan. ..…
The word 'warming' causes confusion, or in the case of Trump gives cover for willful misunderstanding. ..…
There is no word on its website, for example, about the mass expulsions of migrants from Saudi Arabia during the last year-and-a-half. ..…