Iran, too rich in oil to be starved out, acts as though it is engaged in an international holy war, acting out of motives more ideological than economic.
For 42 days starting on January 9th, the alignment of the stars makes Allahabad, where the Ganges, the Yamuna and a mythical third river converge, an especially holy place to be.
It might be with a gun, an army, a holy book, a law, an invisible free-market hand.
"Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs, a gospel and an anti-gospel at the same time, " said the article, by Ben Austen.
Lera approached one, an image of the Holy Mother, silent pain in her flat painted eyes.
Poloma says faith in divine revelation, prophecy and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit are hallmarks of the Pentecostal faith.
An IPO is the holy grail for many start-ups, but the odds of success are 22% lower if a co-investing pair are alumni of the same university, and 18% lower if they share a past employer.
No sooner had the balloting ended than the local franchise of CAIR - an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial - asked for an injunction on the grounds that such a prohibition would violate Muslims' constitutional rights.
Ms. Vaughn became an associate minister of the Holy Ghost Church and her father trained her.
But she ventured in several directions in search of an inner peace: to holy sites in the Indian Himalayas, to the halls of academia, where she earned a doctorate in education.
The U.S. charges include conspiracy in connection with a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen and conspiring with others to establish an Islamic jihad, or holy war, training camp in rural Oregon in 1999.
He thought Tyre an economically thriving but insufficiently holy place that should be reduced to nothing more than a fishing village with plenty of open space to "spread fish nets" to dry.
"I started to think about what would it take to go deeper, what would it take to go to full ocean depth - that was kind of the holy grail from an engineering standpoint, " he told BBC News.
Falling into disgrace in the late 1980s for being too independent (he spoke out against what he believed to be violations of Islamic justice, including mass executions), he now lives under house arrest in Qom, Iran's most holy city, an important but largely soundless presence.
It attracts an eclectic mix of Hindu holy men, Indian movie stars, pilgrims and curious tourists who come to bathe in the Ganges, India's holiest river, where drops of the nectar of immortality are believed to have been spilled from a pitcher by the gods at creation.
Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross, says suppression of player compensation in American college football has created an inverse situation to that of overseas professional soccer leagues, which invest in talent above all else.
Demonstrations will not... protect your jeopardised holy places or expel an occupying enemy, nor will they deter an arrogant aggressor.
But since the start of the war, Iraqis every year brace for an uptick in violence during the holy month.
It has installed thousands of new centrifuge machines at an underground military facility in the holy city of Qom, the IAEA reported.
Francis accepted all this serenely, and the qualities that at the beginning had marked him as an eccentric eventually made him seem holy.
Baroness Warsi's two-day delegation of seven British ministers to the Holy See will include an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who visited the UK in 2010.
In November, the IAEA announced that Iran had more than doubled its capacity to produce nuclear fuel at an underground military facility near the holy city of Qom.
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Elsewhere, at least one person was killed and seven were wounded when a car bomb exploded near an outdoor market in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraqi police officials said.
"By its public witness of respect for women ... the Church in the Holy Land can make an important contribution to the advancement of a culture of true humanity and the building of the civilization of love, " the pontiff said.
Iran has also completed the development of an uranium-enrichment facility in a fortified military structure near the holy city of Qom, which is seen as largely immune from an American or Israeli attack.
Iran has also completed the development of an uranium-enrichment facility in a fortified military structure near the holy cite of Qom, which is seen as largely immune from an American or Israeli attack.
Guests filled Auckland's Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral and an overflow area next door for a service.
The soldier did not take off his boots, an act of desecration in any Muslim holy place.
It should be recalled that CAIR is also an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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