Word: reawakened
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...targets, most specifically, the backward congressional legislation HR 4437, which goes to extremes in a futile attempt at quelling the wave of illegal migration to the U.S. Although that legislation is likely dead, so too is much of the positive activity in the Senate. We hope this walkout will reawaken the Senate and bolster proponents of legislation such as the McCain-Kennedy Bill, which deals with the immigration in a far more sensible manner, treating immigrants as part of the fabric of our country—not as criminals...
...want to reawaken people’s desire to do good, people’s desire to improve their lives and the lives of others,” Ben-Shahar says. “Is it naïve? I don’t think so. The greatest things in the world were achieved through people who were discarded very often as idealists, as naïve. I think these are the kinds of people who ultimately make a difference. And there are many of them here at Harvard, and there can be many more...
...first time what a miracle they have on their hands. Talking about the scene, Maguire sounds almost mesmerized. "I think what plays there is somebody who's just kind of desperate and hungry and broken down, and Seabiscuit and my character together reawaken themselves. He feels like when he was a kid and he rode horses and he loved it, and it felt right to him, like what he was supposed to do. And Seabiscuit's galloping, and I think it's just, it's just like that kind of epiphanic release in one's life, where you're just...
...latter. And while he sits before a table groaning with his favorite dishes?plates of lechon and cheese, vats of bird-fetus soup and sweet rice-paper rolls, all hustled across town from the fully staffed kitchen of his family home?he tries to conjure his old enthusiasm, to reawaken the fire that he rode to his populist successes. And for a few moments, as he takes up again the role of El Presidente and eagerly feeds those around him?his lawyers, his friends, his hangers-on?and ruminates on the deteriorating economy, on the unfairness of his present situation...
...primed for relapse. One common trigger for returning to drugs is stress, which can send the recovering addict back to a proven stress reliever. Another is contact with people, places and things associated with drugs--cues that bring up dormant memory circuits laid down during active addiction and thus reawaken craving...