orphaned children, Progeny of ISIS fighter, reintegrate,

Progeny of ISIS fighter to return to Australia

The six children and grandchildren of Khaled Sharrouf, a notorious fighter with the terrorist group, have been removed from a Syrian camp and will return to Australia soon.

Their return is the result of a campaign by Mr. Sharrouf’s mother-in-law, Karen Nettleton, who spent five years searching for the orphaned children and pressuring the government to rescue them.

Hurdles ahead: Australian authorities are grappling with how to reintegrate the children — who were exposed to the Islamic State’s brutality — back into society, the same question that has vexed governments around the world, as thousands of children languish in camps.

Reminder: One of the Sharrouf children, a boy now believed to be dead, grabbed global headlines after he was photographed holding a severed head.

fire up, inflame, rift, fraught (ANXIOUS), imperil, tug-of-war

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was optimistic world leaders would reach an agreement at next month's G20 summit in London, despite signs of rifts between Europe and the United States.

The two countries have bickered about trade for years. Narendra Modi has further inflamed these irritations

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India presents America with a choice between geopolitics and trade

Referendum Inflames Concerns Over Turkey's Grip in Germany

By ALISON SMALE

German officials believe that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose power could be expanded by a vote on Sunday, is using a decades-old arrangement between the countries to spy on opponents.

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Taliban Exploit Rift in Pakistan Enclave

By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH 6:09 PM ET

In the area around Parachinar, the Taliban have inflamed a long-running sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shiites that has left the town under siege.

Slavic Rivals Embroiled in Church Rift
By ANNE BARNARD Ukraine’s attempt to split its Orthodox church from Russia’s is the latest round in an increasingly fraught tug of war over history, identity and power.

Crisis in Gaza Imperils 2-State Plan

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

With every image of the dead inflaming the Arab world, officials in Egypt and Jordan are worried that the so-called two-state solution is slipping away.

US, Poland Sign Deal to Station Missiles in Europe

Poland and the United States signed a deal Wednesday to set up a missile

defense base on Polish soil, part of a planned US system in eastern Europe

that has inflamed tensions with Russia.

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China has made an unprecedented move to interfere with a Hong Kong court case that could force two “localist” politicians out of their seats

China has lost patience with Hong Kong’s pro-independence politicians

A ruling by its legislature will inflame passions in the territory

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inflame

verb [T]

to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement:

Reducing the number of staff is certain to inflame the already angry medical profession.

Pictures of the bombed and burning city inflamed feelings/passions further.

See also inflammatory.imperil 

verb [T] -ll- or US USUALLY -l- SLIGHTLY FORMAL

to put something or someone at risk or in danger of being harmed or destroyed:

A police raid would imperil the lives of the hostages.

 in・flame

━━ vt. 火をつける; 怒らせる, 感情をあおる ((with)); 充血させる, 炎症を起させる.

━━ vi. 燃え立つ; 怒る; 炎症を起す.

 in・flamed　━━ a. 炎症を起こした; 充血した; 興奮した.

vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)

1. 使燃燒
2. 使極度激動;使憤怒[(+with)]
He was inflamed with anger.
他怒火中燒。
3. 加劇;使火上加油
Insults only served to inflame the feud.
侮辱只是起了加劇長期不和的作用。
4. 【醫】使發炎;使紅腫
The smoke had inflamed the fireman's eyes.
煙把消防隊員的眼睛燻紅了。

vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)

1. 著火,燃燒
2. 激動;發怒
3. 【醫】發炎;變紅腫

rift 
noun [C]
1 a large crack in the ground or in rock:
The stream had cut a deep rift in the rock.

2 a serious disagreement which separates two people who have been friends and stops their friendship continuing:
The marriage caused a rift between the brothers and they didn't speak to each other for ten years.

fraught (ANXIOUS)
adjective
causing or having extreme worry or anxiety:
This is one of the most fraught weekends of the year for the security forces.
The atmosphere in the office is rather fraught.

tug-of-war 
noun [C usually singular]
a type of sport in which two teams show their strength by pulling against each other at the opposite ends of a rope, and each team tries to pull the other over a line on the ground

fire up
1. Inflame with enthusiasm, anger, or another strong emotion, as in Her speech fired up the crowd in favor of her proposals.
This expression dates from the early 1800s, when it referred literally to starting a fire in a furnace or boiler; its figurative use dates from the late 1800s.

2. Light a pipe, cigar, or cigarette, as in Do you mind if I fire up? [Late 1800s] A more common term, however, is light up, def. 2.

3. Start the ignition of an engine, as in Whenever he tried to fire up the motor, it stalled. [Mid-1900s]

(HC 4. Phoenix Technologies is launching an ambitious campaign to improve laptop functions, including the ability to fire up software in seconds.)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. More from Idioms



The verb fire up has 2 meanings: Meaning #1: arouse or excite feelings and passions
Synonyms: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat
Meaning #2: begin to smoke
Synonyms: light up, light



WordNet information about fire up
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No match for, the better part of

Greens have been campaigning against the Carmichael coal mine for the better part of a decade

the better part of in British

a large part of

the better part of a day

Bigger than China.

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amen, speak out, rub off, the rub

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere." - Jane Austen 'Mansfield Park'

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Mansfield Park

At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls in love with her cousin Edmund, but when the dazzling and sophisticated Crawfords arrive,...

Free Music Downloads Without the Legal Peril

Everybody likes free music but nobody likes to be sued. For people seeking free music online, therein lies the rub.

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." — Beatrix Potter

speak out/up phrasal verb
to give your opinion about something in public, especially on a subject which you have strong feelings about:
If no one has the courage to speak out against the system, things will never improve.

 
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amen 

exclamation FORMAL

said or sung at the end of a prayer or sometimes a religious song to express agreement with what has been saidAmen（Heb.希伯來文 ）：(1)阿門；亞孟；贊成；但願如此：希伯來語，意即願禱中所求都能獲得，多用於祈禱之結尾。(2)鄭重的；實實在在的：在福音中耶穌警告人時的慣用語。

amen to that

said to show that you agree strongly with something that someone has just said:

"Thank goodness we didn't go." "Amen to that!"

the rub
the particular problem that makes a situation difficult or impossible:
You can't get a job unless you have experience, but there's the rub, you can't get experience unless you have a job.


[COUNTABLE] the action of rubbing part of the body

a rub on the back

a foot rub

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To rub and rubbing:rub, knead, scratch...

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1. a.

   the action of rubbing something with a cloth etc

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   An instance or an action of cleaning or tidying:rinse, wipe, rub...

rub off phrasal verb INFORMAL
If a quality or characteristic that someone has rubs off, other people begin to have it because they have been with that person and learnt it from them:
His enthusiasm is starting to rub off on the rest of us.

unctuously, minister to, magick up, ding, fulsome, minister of magic,Pecksniffian

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Boris Johnson, one of the leaders of the successful "Leave" campaign in Britain's European Union membership referendum, has won the backing of a key colleague to replace David Cameron as prime minister, a newspaper reported. Read more: http://reut.rs/28W6I32

Boris Johnson wins backing from Gove for prime ministerial bid

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Donald Trump is a disgrace, but Ted Cruz is not the solution

Ted Cruz, false hope

The unctuous Texan is squandering a great chance handed to him by Stop-Trump Republicans

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The Bronx’s Strained Catholic Churches

By DAVID GONZALEZ

Efforts to hold together a merged congregation raise the question of whether the Roman Catholic Church can minister to the poor in the most Catholic of New York City’s boroughs.

"Compare the terms demanded of the Greek government to those offered to the banks. Eurozone ministers insist upon unconditional surrender: an abasement that makes a mockery of democracy. But when the banks were bailed out, governments magicked up the money almost unconditionally. They shyly requested a few token reforms, then looked away when the bankers disregarded them."


A maverick currency scheme from the 1930s could save the Greek economy

The eurozone crisis calls for radical solutions – and one of the most...
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For the culinary-minded traveler, any visit to Tokyo should include a dinner of unagi — tender, unctuous grilled freshwater eel. There are genteel eel specialists, like the memorable Yama-no Chaya, which opened in the early 20th century on the leafy grounds of Hie-Jinja Shrine. By contrast, there’s Unagi Kabuto, at 35 a relative newcomer: a friendly, charcoal-smoke-scented storefront in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro neighborhood, whose lively streets are peopled more by touts in skinny suits than by elegant women in kimonos.



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China's stimulus bubble bursting? The Australian
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Fulsome again
published: Friday | December 14, 2007
THE EDITOR, Sir:
IT HAS become fashionable these days to misuse (and abuse) the word 'fulsome', to give it a meaning that suggests 'comprehensive' or something more full than 'full'.
In the December 11 edition of Gleaner, the public defender, in response to Mr. Robert Montague's apology, was quoted as saying, "I express profound relief that it has come in such fulsome and unreserved terms". Not to be outdone, our Prime Minister was seen on television noting that he was satisfied that the apology given by Mr. Montague was "fulsome enough".
In his letter in The Gleaner of Friday, September 28, Peter Maxwell wrote that four British and two American dictionaries had confirmed that the word 'fulsome' normally describes something that is excessive, offensive or insincere. Further, a note on its usage, in the 2000 edition of The New Penguin English Dictionary, is particularly helpful:
"In its standard modern meaning, fulsome is a strongly uncomplimentary word. Fulsome praise is embarrassingly excessive or insincerely flattering. Though fulsome derives originally from a word meaning 'abundant', its use in a positive sense to mean 'copious', 'very full' or 'lavish' should be avoided for fear of misunderstanding."
I agree, Mr. Maxwell; we really miss The Gleaner's 'Mary Smith' column.

Pecksniffian CHAPTER XIV DON QUIXOTE To include Don Quixote in English Literature is a piece of impudence, though a lesser one than the inclusion in it of a religious anthology of the Jews, collected by them during a period of a thousand years, called the Bible. But though Don Quixote has taken his place with Hamlet, Joseph, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver, Mr. Pecksniff, and Alice, his true character is not yet recognised either in his own country or that of his adoption. Of the work of Cervantes more than that of any other, are Goethe's words true, that a poet has to be taught his own meaning. The genius is hardly aware of the significance of his performance, since so much of it is the God that speaks through him as a mouthpiece. In the case of Don Quixote this is further complicated by the fact that Cervantes, in the Second Part of Don Quixote, destroys, unconsciously, his own creation in the First Part. 問題是 Joseph 是誰 Martin Chuzzlewit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While with the Pecksniffs, the younger Martin meets and befriends Tom Pinch, who is in some ways the true protagonist of the novel. Pinch is a gentle, ... Plot summary - Characters in Martin Chuzzlewit - Publication - Anti-Americanism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chuzzlewit -  Pecksniff | Define Pecksniff at Dictionary.com a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to. Use pecksniff in a Sentence · See images of pecksniff ... Pecksniff是狄更斯人物 Martin Chuzzlewit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia While with the Pecksniffs, the younger Martin meets and befriends Tom Pinch, who is in some ways the true protagonist of the novel. Pinch is a gentle, ... Plot summary - Characters in Martin Chuzzlewit - Publication - Anti-Americanism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Chuzzlewit - 頁庫存檔 - 類似內容 Pecksniff | Define Pecksniff at Dictionary.coma person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to. Use pecksniff in a Sentence · See images of pecksniff ... [形]偽善的な, 猫をかぶった. ▼C. Dickensの作品Martin Chuzzlewit（1843-44）の登場人物Seth Pecksniffの名から. –noun a person of Pecksniffian attitudes or behavior: a virtuousness that only a pecksniff could aspire to. Peck·sniff·i·an [pek-snif-ee-uhn] Show IPA –adjective ( often lowercase ) hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.

magickLine breaks: magick

Pronunciation: /ˈmadʒɪk/Definition of magick in English:

NOUN

Archaic spelling of magic.

• Then the magick seems pretty real, and you just start to question your sanity from time to time.
• Any magick I get involved with is with a positive intent and it always seems to come out right in the end.
• The motivation behind doing magick is probably as diverse as the branches of magick.

unctuous 

Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋ(k)tjʊəs/ 

ADJECTIVE1Excessively flattering or ingratiating; oily:

he seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way

More example sentencesSynonyms

2(Chiefly of minerals) having a greasy or soapy feel.

Example sentences

Derivatives

unctuously

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'greasy'): from medieval Latin unctuosus, from Latin unctus'anointing', from unguere 'anoint'.

unctuous

音節

unc • tu • ous

発音

ʌ'ŋktʃuəs

[形]

1 ((形式))いやに気どった, きざな；愛想がよすぎる；口先のうまい.

2 油性の；油を含んだ, 油ぎった.

3 〈鉱物などが〉すべすべした感じの.

ùnc・tu・ós・i・ty, ・ness

[名]

unc・tu・ous・ly

[副]

ding

音節

ding

発音

díŋ

dingの変化形

dings (複数形) • dinged (過去形) • dinged (過去分詞) • dinging (現在分詞) • dings (三人称単数現在)

[動](他)(自)

1 〈鐘などを［が］〉ガンガン鳴らす［鳴る］；ゴーンゴーンと鳴らす［鳴る］.

2 ((略式))（…を）くどくど繰り返す［念を押す］.

━━[名]

1 鐘の（鳴る）音.

2 小さな傷；車などのへこみ.

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......我突然想到當年美國國務卿 Colin Powell 閃辭時，紐約時報專欄作家 William Safire 正參加電視談話節目，立刻嘲諷說，Colin Powell 連 fulsome 這個字都用錯了，它雖然有十分感謝他人誇獎讚美之意，但通常是針對巧言令色，非出於誠摯的肺腑之言而發。Colin Powell 只能無奈表示 “ Safire is getting arrogant in his old age.”......

fulsome (fʊl'səm)
adj.

1. Offensively flattering or insincere. See synonyms at unctuous.
2. Offensive to the taste or sensibilities.
3. Usage Problem. Copious or abundant.

[Middle English fulsom, abundant, well-fed, arousing disgust : ful, full; see full¹ + -som, adj. suff.; see -some¹.]

fulsomely ful'some·ly adv. fulsomeness ful'some·ness n.

USAGE NOTE Fulsome is often used to mean "offensively flattering or insincere." But the word is also used, particularly in the expression fulsome praise, to mean simply "abundant," without any implication of excess or insincerity. This usage is etymologically justified but may invite misunderstandings in contexts in which a deprecatory interpretation could be made. The sentence I offer you my most fulsome apologies may raise an eyebrow, where the use of an adjective like full or abundant would leave no room for doubt as to the sincerity of the speaker's intentions.

Steve Jobs resigns

The minister of magic steps down

Can Silicon Valley’s most disruptive firm prosper without its maker?

Aug 27th 2011 | SAN FRANCISCO | from the print edition

minister to someone or something

to take care of someone or someone's needs. Sarah tried to minister to the people of the village. He sought to minister to the grief ofthe widow.

minister

[名]1 ((しばしばM-))（ヨーロッパ諸国・日本などの）大臣；((英))（閣外）国務大臣. ▼Secretary of Stateともいう. ((米))ではSecretary. ⇒SECRE...

minister of state

1 （英国の各省内）担当大臣, 閣外相：省大臣と政務次官の間の地位.2 大臣, 閣僚.

minister plenipotentiary

全権使節.

ministerial

[形]1 （主にヨーロッパ諸国で）内閣の；政府の；大臣の the ministerial benches（英国下院の）政府［与党］の席.2 〈物・事が〉聖職の, 聖職者にふさわしい a mini...

ministerialist

[名]((英))与党議員［支持者］.

ministering angel

救いの天使（看護婦など）.