Iran and Hezbollah Support for Syria Complicates Peace-Talk Strategy
Obama's Turn in Bush's Bind
By PETER BAKER
A onetime critic of his predecessor, President Obama finds himself justifying muscular defense policies while detractors complain that he has sacrificed core values.
Can DPJ rebuild a debilitated nation under new leadership?
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The stepped-up support President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has
received from Iran and Hezbollah appears to have fortified his belief
that he can hang on to power and prevail militarily.
Obama's Turn in Bush's Bind
By PETER BAKER
A onetime critic of his predecessor, President Obama finds himself justifying muscular defense policies while detractors complain that he has sacrificed core values.
Can DPJ rebuild a debilitated nation under new leadership?
David Brooks writes in The New York Times: Diane Ravitch’s narrative is that America has humane local schools that are being threatened by testing wonks. The fact is that many schools have become spiritually enervated and even great teachers struggle in an inert culture. It’s the reformers who often bring the passion, using tests as a lever. If your school teaches to the test, it’s not the test’s fault. It’s the leaders of your school.
wonk
(wŏngk)
n. Slang
- A student who studies excessively; a grind.
- One who studies an issue or a topic thoroughly or excessively: "leading a talkathon of policy wonks in a methodical effort to build consensus for his programs" (Michael Kranish).
[Origin unknown.]
enervate
(ĕn'ər-vāt')
tr.v., -vat·ed, -vat·ing, -vates.
- To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau). See synonyms at deplete.
- Medicine. To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.
Deprived of strength; debilitated.
[Latin ēnervāre, ēnervāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + nervus, sinew.]
enervation en'er·va'tion n.
enervative en'er·va'tive adj.
enervator en'er·va'tor n.
USAGE NOTE Sometimes people mistakenly use enervate to mean "to invigorate" or "to excite" by assuming that this word is a close cousin of the verb energize. In fact enervate does not come from the same source as energize (Greek energos, "active"). It comes from Latin nervus, "sinew." Thus enervate means "to cause to become 'out of muscle'," that is, "to weaken or deplete of strength."
(dĭ-bĭl'ĭ-tāt')
tr.v., -tat·ed, -tat·ing, -tates.
To sap the strength or energy of; enervate.
[Latin dēbilitāre, dēbilitāt-, from dēbilis, weak.]
- [dibílətèit]
In the view of both political analysts and technology experts here and in the United States, China’s attempts to tighten its grip on Internet use are driven in part by the conviction that the West — and particularly the United States — is wielding communications innovations from malware to Twitter to weaken it militarily and to stir dissent internally.
“The United States has already done it, many times,” said Song Xiaojun, one of the authors of “Unhappy China,” a 2009 book advocating a muscular Chinese foreign policy, which the government’s propaganda department is said to promote. He cited the so-called color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia as examples. “It is not really regime change, directly,” he said. “It is more like they use the Internet to sow chaos.”
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He also had a number of tics and other involuntary movements;
tic
(tĭk)
A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities.
intr.v., ticced, tic·cing, tics.
To have a tic; produce tics.
【醫】(面部習慣性的)抽筋;痙攣
梁永安提供
［F.］ n. 【医】（顔面の）けいれん, チック; くせ, 特徴.
- 音節
- múscular Christiánity
Muscular Christianity is a term for a movement during the Victorian era which stressed the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity. It was most associated with the English writers Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes, though the name was bestowed by others.
Kingsley and Hughes promoted physical strength and health (at least for men) as well as an active pursuit of Christian ideals in personal life and politics.
The term has also been applied to later movements that combine physical and Christian spiritual development.
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adj.- Of, relating to, or consisting of muscle: muscular contraction.
- Having well-developed muscles: a muscular build.
- Having or suggesting great forcefulness, especially at the expense of subtlety: muscular reasoning that does not bother with the finer points; muscular advocacy groups.
[From Latin mūsculus, muscle. See muscle.]
muscularity mus'cu·lar'i·ty (-lăr'ĭ-tē) n.muscularly mus'cu·lar·ly adv.
SYNONYMS muscular, athletic, brawny, burly, sinewy. These adjectives mean strong and powerfully built: a muscular build; an athletic swimmer; brawny arms; a burly stevedore; a lean and sinewy frame.
muscular
- 音節
- mus • cu • lar
- 発音
- mʌ'skjulər
- レベル
- 大学入試程度
[形]
1 筋肉の発達した, （筋骨）たくましい.
4 肉体活動を通した.
［△MUSCLE］
mùs・cu・lár・i・ty
[名]
mus・cu・lar・ly
[副]
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