Word: strife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...statement: "Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works." Half a millennium of strife is not instantly undone; last week's participants, unlike the Regensburgers, didn't imagine they were reuniting the church. But the Declaration does preserve faint hopes of such a reunion. And it is "momentous" in its own right, notes influential Catholic commentator Richard John Neuhaus, for seriously addressing "the root...
...young activist realizes that her homeland, with over 250 ethnic groups and historical tensions stretching back centuries, is largely a victim of internal strife. But Abiola criticizes the U.S. government and international corporations that have continued their oil operations for failing to speak strongly against human-rights abuses. "The U.S. has always made vague statements about wanting democracy in Nigeria," she says. "But what does that mean? At the very least, the U.S. government has to demand the release of the political prisoners." Foremost among them, of course, is her father. She hasn't seen him in nearly four years...
...global strife shall be no more...
...Middle East, el-Gaili was the occasional victim of strife among even his fellow Muslims. Three summers ago, el-Gaili was in Egypt writing for Let's Go travel guides when Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak narrowly missed assassination. The event precipitated a terrifying ordeal for el-Gaili...
Taylor says since health benefits and salaryincrease rates--primary subjects of contention inrecent years--are particularly difficult issues toresolve, the strife may have been more areflection of the issues involved than the stateof labor relations...