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Over the next year, while my family was righting itself, I started to realize that even if I could go back into government, I didn't want to.
This talk is about righting writing wrongs.
Let's change the narrative together and let's start righting writing wrongs.
This movie gives Daniel Wu his chance to do a great action movie, but I really find Emil Chow's character really great, gutsy but determined to righting wrongs.
This movie is about hope and righting wrongs.
whether it be Celie having lived through hell and losing her sister, and Shug coming into her life to show her love again, Albert not being man righting his wrong toward Celie, Shug shunned by her father and confesses to him in the end, Sofia and her stubborness good and bad, and even Nettie, they had their emptiness and hardship through the film but was overcome in the end and that's the sign of a good movie.
Righting the EU ConstitutionThe prospect of multiple referenda on the European Union Constitution has dramatically altered the betting on ratification.
Thus, to destroy the mosque and replace it with a temple was not righting an old wrong but perpetrating a new one.
Righting the Wrongs of LeprosyTOKYO – At its 15th session, which ended at the beginning of October, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution encouraging governments to eliminate discrimination against people affected by leprosy – and their family members.
In Durban, the international community must commit to righting that wrong.
So the stakes in righting the world economy could not be higher.
The authors, primarily a French group headed by Olivier Cases, described mouse pups showing “trembling, difficulty in righting, and fearfulness...frantic running and falling over..(disturbed) sleep...propensity to bite the experimenter...hunched posture...”Of all these features of disturbed development the authors chose only to highlight aggression in their paper’s title, and to conclude their account by claiming that these results “support the idea that the particularly aggressive behavior of the few known human males lacking MAOA ...is a more direct consequence of MAO deficiency.”
His vision of humanitarian action was one in which relief was not only an end in itself – the traditional Red Cross view that humanitarians palliate the worst effects of war and natural disaster – but also a means for righting wrongs.
Righting China’s Property RightsNEW YORK – China recently adopted new guidelines to strengthen protection of property rights.
Righting ReformMost economists now agree that institutional quality holds the key to prosperity.
China portrayed the 1997 restoration of its sovereignty over Hong Kong, following more than a century of British administration, as righting a historic injustice.
Putin may be content with his role in the Ukraine crisis, because all signs suggest that he believes he is righting a historical wrong.
But since the 1960’s, the passions expended until then on righting collective wrongs have been increasingly channeled into securing the rights of humans as individuals.
Righting the wrongs of the Trump years will take time.
Hearts pounding, we could see and feel the ship righting itself.
In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.
This reflection kept me perplexed and longing to know really and truly the whole life and wondrous deeds of our famous Spaniard, Don Quixote of La Mancha, light and mirror of Manchegan chivalry, and the first that in our age and in these so evil days devoted himself to the labour and exercise of the arms of knight-errantry, righting wrongs, succouring widows, and protecting damsels of that sort that used to ride about, whip in hand, on their palfreys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to mountain and valley to valley—for, if it were not for some ruffian, or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced them, there were in days of yore damsels that at the end of eighty years, in all which time they had never slept a day under a roof, went to their graves as much maids as the mothers that bore them.
"In that case," said Don Quixote, "the Lord has relieved me of the task of avenging his death had any other slain him; but, he who slew him having slain him, there is nothing for it but to be silent, and shrug one's shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; and I would have your reverence know that I am a knight of La Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries."
All I say is, that if my master would take my advice, we would be now afield, redressing outrages and righting wrongs, as is the use and custom of good knights-errant."