WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. apologized to President Obama for hastening him into an endorsement of same-sex marriage, several people briefed on the exchange said Thursday, even as the White House sought to capitalize in the campaign on Mr. Obama's long-awaited expression of support.
This kind of cruelty cruelty to real persons, killing the infidel in order to hasten him into heaven, stoning the fourteen-year-old girl in pursuit of some prophet's view of virtue, forcing the teenager to complete her pregnancy to fulfill a middle-aged man's moral hunches is the kind of cruelty that our liberal founders saw with terror.
When a pretender, Alexander Balas, appeared, Philometor hastened to aid him in 153, and later even gave him a daughter in marriage.
Every once in a while, he confessed his sins to his friends, who were grieved to see him suffering and beating up on himself and who hastened to reassure him that he was not a sick monster.
Trump's family and the aides who hastened to serve him have learned to imitate his grossest reflexes, and to hell with the contradictions.
A series of strokes hastened his decline, leaving him barely able to eat or speak.
It was said of Jawaharlal Nehru that India's 1962 war against China — against the fraternal power in his ideal of Asianism — sickened him and hastened his demise.
"I'm really upset about this," said Anaam Abdul Wahed, 35, having lunch with her niece in a Baghdad restaurant, when she learned Mr. Bremer had gone, in hastened circumstances that denied him even a broadcast farewell.
As I approached him I hastened to explain that I was a New Yorker and would never dream of disturbing his privacy but that the two women hopping up and down by the curb were huge fans of his visiting from out of town.
