Word: pulling
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...past, Iraqis were not accustomed to thinking of themselves primarily as Shia or Sunni. But the way we implemented democracy had led people to believe that they deserved a piece of the pie based on their membership in a certain group. So the whole dynamic was to pull away from the center. The decisions we made tended to fracture Iraq, not to bring it together...
...project wasn’t easy.“It was really a lot of work and it felt like it was never going to end for a long time,” he says. “I’m really glad that we were able to pull it off. There was always doubt in our minds but it worked out.”DOIN’ IT WELLIn addition to inspiring a new musical turn, the EP project’s success secured the band’s fate, both in the minds of its members...
Smith earned a reputation both for bringing home the groceries and brooking no nonsense from settlers who wouldn't pull their weight or who put self-interest above the colony's needs. He made an enemy or two along the way. As the military man who understood the terrain and was the least likely to be missed if he didn't return, Smith was put in charge of seeking local tribes willing to swap corn, fish and game for English copper and glass beads. When one hard-pressed tribe balked at the corn-for-copper trade, Smith ordered...
...Fluid enough to have a .732 slugging percentage to go along with a solid .323 batting average, showing that the extra time off paired with superb coaching led to a skyrocketing improvement on offense.“We always knew that she was good—that she would pull through for us in opportune moments,” captain second baseman Julia Kidder said. “Obviously we didn’t expect what she’s done this season thus far.”And while most people will only see her hitting statistics?...
...required to put him atop the tank that day in 1991. At the very moment of his 1931 baptism in the remote Ural Mountains village of Butko, some 900 miles east of Moscow, a tippling priest carelessly dropped him in a baptismal font and was too inebriated to pull him out. His parents had to rescue him. "It means," the priest murmured, "that he is a good, tough lad." That was a necessity for survival in western Siberia during that era of Soviet history. Yeltsin recalled that during the bitterly cold winters he and his family in their communal...