• But the strength of the passions involved may mean that there is no other choice: unless, that is, both sides decide to give the land back to the Marines.

    ECONOMIST: California

  • Which is why McCullough also talked about the importance of pursuing passions for the sake of passions, rather than seeking accolades or striking off items from an arbitrary checklist.

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  • In other words, what is absent is how they understand the meanings of their religion, the passions of their sorrow, and the struggle of their souls.

    NPR: Many Arab-Americans Still Perceived As A 'Problem'

  • In arguing for the admissibility of the tapes, attorney Gerald Uelmen said the defense was not trying to inflame the passions of the jury but simply trying to challenge Fuhrman's credibility and to help the jury assess the weight they should give to his testimony.

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  • The emotions of the dogs are conspicuous, but not so striking, even to themselves, are the passions of the owners of the dogs.

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  • But the events that stir the passions of the greatest number are those with a national or international scope.

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  • Across the Europe, the Russian steppes and through the Byzantine wonder of Constantinople, gateway to Asia, Kerbouchard is thrust into the heart of the treacheries, passions, violence and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.

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  • One of the deepest quarterback crops in recent years stoked the passions of fan bases in several NFL cities, including Indianapolis, which took Andrew Luck with the first overall pick.

    WSJ: This year's draft heavy on size, light on glamour

  • Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and the evidence.

    CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement

  • By the time I began school in 1938, Lindbergh's was a name that provoked the same sort of indignation in our house as did the weekly Sunday radio broadcasts of Father Coughlin, the Detroit-area priest who edited a right-wing weekly called Social Justice and whose anti-Semitic virulence aroused the passions of a sizable audience during the country's hard times.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • With her sure grasp of the social and political passions driving the times, she is able to situate her clutch of subjects in a very particular intellectual tradition.

    ECONOMIST: 18th-century science

  • The theater is small enough that the performers need never raise their voices: They speak of their all-consuming passions in the softest of tones, and we are drawn into their plight like a lifeboat being pulled into a whirlpool.

    WSJ: Theater Review: The Subtle Joys of Small-Scale Sondheim

  • For the duration of the movie, as they deliver the terse, expressive dialogue with hushed urgency and seemingly vibrate with the burden of unspeakable passions, they, too, are among the greats.

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  • It's the exodus of skilled positions that most excites the worry, and the influx of the unskilled or unemployable that incites the passions.

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  • The juice made Rice so happy that she even engaged in chatter about one of her passions, the National Football League playoffs.

    CNN: Traveling with Bush: Bling, strawberry juice and goat brains?

  • "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" by John Adams and Peter Sellars, recently given its New York premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, approximates the structure of Bach's Passions but has neither the devotional fervor nor the narrative energy that make those works unforgettable.

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  • The incredible answers we received got me thinking about how our company could support the individual passions of our team members, and, in the process, raise our CSR profile.

    FORBES: Modernizing CSR in 2013: Let Your Team Guide Your Company's Charitable Efforts

  • But the idea of letting in the sea rouses strong passions.

    ECONOMIST: Letting the waves rule Britannia

  • First is the fact that "Arab culture" is really many cultures, that "Arab people" are really many peoples, and that "Arab countries" are filled with a combustible mix of ethnicity, religion, nationalism, and race that produces the entire range of human passions.

    NPR: Historian Robert Satloff

  • It also quoted mayor of Suining of Sichuan as saying "the masses should convert their anger to strength, and put their patriotic passions to the construction of the country's economy".

    CNN: Xinhua homepage

  • And they are giving outlets to the creative passions of millions, creating huge new web opportunities to those who want to sell tools to the amafessionals, who are uniquely willing to spend time and money on our passions.

    WSJ: On the Web, Amateurs Rivaling Professionals

  • Mr Colaninno also showed his political skills, calming the passions of both trade unionists and politicians as he sliced up Olivetti, even though it meant the end of Italy's domestic computer industry and cost many jobs.

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  • If you doubt the existence of cult brands that stir strange passions, attend the Napa Valley Wine Auction.

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  • Most strikingly, Mr Gore is interested in science: his famous concern for the chemical balance of environment is matched by similar passions for the Internet, the genome map, new research on learning.

    ECONOMIST: 2001: A Gore Odyssey

  • But there are also concerns that the issue could ignite nationalist passions in Scotland ahead of the independence referendum next year.

    BBC: Ministers

  • When it comes to actions of the last eight years, passions are high.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama: Our Security, Our Values

  • Like Designer Daily it is a blog, sometimes with external contributions, but mainly driven by the observational passions of its founders.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The great debates of the past all stirred great passions.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Michigan Commencement

  • By the end of the convention, the average attendee spent hundreds upon thousands of dollars feeding their sports addictions and passions.

    FORBES: Buyer Beware: The Fragility Of The Sports Memorabilia Industry

  • Resnais (working with texts by the playwright Jean Anouilh) revisits the artistic shocks and personal passions of his own youth and offers loving tributes to cinematic landmarks he passed along the way, setting up, by means of some deliciously jolting special effects, a darkly whimsical new one in uncharted ground.

    NEWYORKER: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

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