Therefore, under the framework of self-protection and protecting everything that is dear, the events of Aug. 2, 1990 [the invasion of Kuwait], took place...
The biblical figure of Job, the righteous man who loses everything that is dear to him, remains a powerful example of this struggle.
When leaders send troops into combat, they are asking them not only to risk their lives, but everything that is dear to them in life: their family relationships, their future and even their mental stability.
He stated: "Being judged before you today stands a nation that has been deprived of everything that is dear and sacred to it from its emergence in its own land – the graves of its patriarchs, the graves of its great kings, the graves of its holy prophets and, above all, the site of its glorious Temple.
"But then we knew we that we were fighting against something monstrous and for everything that was dear to us.
Somehow Oates, a luckless piano player in a dead-end Mexico City bar, becomes the bounty hunter who can deliver the goods, but not without giving up everything that's dear to him.
Long-term states of emergency "Coming from a place where as a young child I'd lost everything that's dear to me – family, home – having an education is absolutely important," Ishmael Beah said during his recent podcast discussion with Nicholas Kristof and Dyan Mazurana.
It is powerful to call your son "dear," it is powerful to feel that the world is dear, it is powerful to always strive to see everything as dear.
Or at least not be completely racked by guilt all the time dear lord everything is so awful...ooh look a bunny!
Everything you hold dear is at risk, everything is vulnerable.
