“The nuns, tucking up their habits, were forced toflounderthrough the mud on foot.” Verb ▲ To fail to have the intended effect or result “At yet another point, it looked as though the talks wouldflounderon the question of citizenship certificates issued by other States.” ...
Conscripts have no choice in the natureof the work they are required to do. ... As highlighted by the Special Rapporteur, this system of indefinite, involuntary conscription amounts to forced labour and is a human rights violation. What was the age range for being drafted into the Vietnam ...
Lessa, the heroine ofDragonflight, is caught in a caste system. Born noble, she’s orphaned then forced to disguise herself as a menial drudge. As clichéd as that trope seems now, it captivated me. I wasn’t a noble, but I could relate. Growing up in an unstable, alcoholic family ...
All of this warlike talk might be excusable, even laudable, if it came from a genuine human rights activist who paid for these words. But this is James Woolsey – one of the closest things America has to a Blackshirt (if we’re going to abuse this over-abused word as he does). Ind...
(SyFy, our last best hope for the weekly B, gave it a brief go that left us with Mansquito before recycled effects and contract actors who could be forced to be present but not to care meant there was no fun left—a death knell for that elusive thread of joy hiding in every true ...
“Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimatelyfruitlesstalks.” Adjective ▲ Unable to bear fruit, crops or offspring “This housing usually consisted of rundown huts that were poorly built nearfruitlessland that had various problems of tillage, terrain, and ...
‘s argument carried the day for over a century until the great depression of the twentieth century forced free traders like Maynard Keynes to rethink the wisdom of that position in a world dominated by austerians and fiscal conservatives wedded to laissez –faire obsessions about markets which ...
speak, and being forced into something towards which you have no inclination. Yet Archie," and Horatio's voice softened "Archie grew beyond the...abuse... and became stronger than anyone could ever have imagined. Then, too, he had to endure years alone in a dirty prison - and tha...
Soft capital controls have been used since 2018 but it seems impossible that officials will not be forced to go hardcore. The lira closed the week on March 19 at 7.22 versus the USD, while at the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul on March 20 it traded in a band of 7.35-7.45. 3-) Big time ...
It would take 15-20 minutes for the gassing and then afterwards, the dead bodies would be taken to the crematoriums and burned. They had no idea that the train ride was to a death factory. A minority of Jews were selected for forced labor. Their hair was shaved, and their ...