Word: properness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...haunt many families forever: “Why did he have to die?” Debi Allbutt was left to raise her two young boys alone after friendly fire killed her husband. “Stephen lost his life and yet his family are not being given a proper reason for why this military action was taken,” she told the Sunday Mercury. Debi has demanded a meeting with Blair “because he is the one who made the decision to wage this war. I want him to understand how his decisions can affect people...
...noted, borrowed freely from the phrasings of others, including the resounding Declaration of Rights in the new Virginia constitution that had just been drafted by his fellow planter George Mason, in a manner that today might subject him to questions of plagiarism but back then was considered not only proper but learned...
...reality is that the two real safety concerns stem first, from the University’s refusal to implement a fireplace safety training program and second, from a lack of funding for proper fireplace equipment, such as screens and pokers,” he wrote in an e-mail, adding that he thought the administrators’ position “defies logic...
...Islam is a crime and conversion out of it can invite vigilante violence, the more audacious missionaries are engaged, intentionally or not, in provocation, and their actions are debated even within the evangelical community. Some experts see their clumsiness as the product of nondenominational churches lacking the resources for proper training programs. Others suggest that the culprits are "short termers" who don't stay in the region long enough to witness the cycles of retribution their confrontational styles can touch off. Says Robert Seiple, the State Department's Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom until 2000 and himself...
...novel, the reader cottons on to the fact that this is a darkly bizarre fantasy world that bears superficial resemblance to the real one but obeys few of its laws. The book's strangest quality is that it has only the faintest tint or scent of India. Except for proper names, the book's vernacular and cultural references are almost entirely American, and impressively authentic at that. The hard-boiled dialogue is straight out of classic Hollywood, a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Anglo-American spy spoof. If Bond and Matt Helm outrageously flout social norms, MM seems...