It is a gift rarely granted: to walk in another's shoes, to feel the familiar road suddenly drop away, to know how sore your feet get after wearing the same wingtips or high heels for 10 days straight.
A group of young black men were incorrectly arrested on suspicion of firearm possession during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, as a group of white militiamen, armed with rifles and wearing body armour and camouflage, claimed they had been granted permission to walk through the protests by police officers.
"They can't take anything for granted and need to walk before they try to run".
It is easy to take for granted being able to walk down the street safely and unbothered.
Was it not the Stumbling Men alone who were granted the right to walk up the hill called The Dragon's Hump with their shoelaces tied together?
Kelli witnessed her daughter's determination and knew she could no longer take for granted her ability to walk, run, & exercise.
The last stage in this triptych of shittiness begins when you're finally granted the right to walk through the hallowed doors of the venue you've been queuing for – after, of course, being pushed aside or slapped by all the people more important than you with special orange stickers on their tickets.
The legislation would require state parks officials to grant Mr. Wallenda permission to walk across the falls, but would also require him to pick up all safety costs, and would bar him from suing New York State should he be injured or die.
This man who, on behalf of the one Muslim among them, badgered the prison authorities literally for years—six, I believe until they at last yielded and granted permission for Kathrada to walk the 50 yards outside the prison entrance to pray in the Kramat (a holy place commemorating a Muslim Imam exiled to the Island by the Dutch in the 1740s).
This law would not prohibit employers from sharing their opinions with their employees, but it would grant the employees the right to walk away.
