The first time, he lasted only three minutes, in an intense state of anxiety.
A financial control board helped New York City return from the edge of crisis in the 1970s, but such intense state involvement is more often needed in smaller cities.
Those primal drives had not gone away; they were simply being channeled in more modern times into an intense state-centered patriotism and xenophobia.
9 Gay Rights Battles Loom Both sides in the debate over gay rights are vowing an intense state-by-state fight over deeply polarizing questions, foremost among them whether gays should be allowed to marry.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton An intense state-of-the-nation drama with the Suez crisis as its backdrop, John Osborne's play opened at the Old Vic last night with Robert Lindsay at its centre.
Current employees will be permitted to reapply for their jobs..... ERT has for years suffered from intense state interference, with successive governments stacking the station with political appointees and favourites.
The presidential contest has become an intense state-by-state fight, with the climate in Ohio shaped by months of efforts by the Obama campaign to portray Mr. Romney as a job killer who opposed the president's decision to bail out the auto industry.
Spurred on by the Supreme Court's landmark ruling decriminalizing gay sexual conduct, both sides in the debate over gay rights are vowing an intense state-by-state fight over deeply polarizing questions, foremost among them whether gays should be allowed to marry.
Suddenly, this reminder of his complex social position sends him back into an intense state of grief.
