Word: haltingly
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Some wars go on killing long after they end. In Congo, a nation of 63 million people in the heart of Africa, a peace deal signed more than three years ago was supposed to halt a war that drew in belligerents from at least eight other countries, producing a record of human devastation unmatched in recent history. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) estimates that 3.9 million people have died from war-related causes since the conflict in Congo began in 1998, making it the world's most lethal conflict since World...
...Arabic -the outstretched columns, fi 'amadin mumaddada, and the vault high above the hearts of those huddled in terror and straining to see into the towering mist of white heat, naru l-lahi l-muqada-some hint of the Mercifuls relenting at some point in time, and calling a halt to Hutama, the imam casts down his eyes, which are an unexpectedly pale gray, as milky and elusive as a kafir womans, and says that these visionary descriptions by the Prophet are figurative. They are truly about the burning misery of separation from God and the scorching of our remorse...
...hope and believe that the acting careers of President Bok and myself will be short.”WORDS OF ADVICEBok took charge of the dean search on the heels of Summers’ struggle to do so. Six days before Summers resigned, the Faculty Council demanded that Summers halt the search until professors could be confident “that it would result in a dean who could enjoy the support of both the President and the FAS.”After being selected as Summers’ immediate successor, Bok appointed a 10-member faculty advisory committee that...
...took charge of the dean search on the heels of Summers’ struggle to do so. Six days before Summers resigned, the Faculty Council demanded that Summers halt the search until professors could be confident “that it would result in a dean who could enjoy the support of both the President...
...shielded by their uniforms, launched a campaign of kidnapping, torture and assassination of Sunnis. Jabr is himself connected to the Badr Brigades, a Shi'ite militia that was created and funded by Iran. Although he denied that death squads were at large in the police force, he failed to halt the killings, which currently run at around 1,000 a month in Baghdad alone...