We kept realizing we had to bend the rules".
Seeing the miserable conditions under which the prisoners were kept, he realized how fortunate he was to have been wounded and paroled the year before, and not just captured.
That, the black Seminoles' lawyers say in legal papers, suggested an effort to keep Congress from realizing that the tribe planned to exclude the blacks.
Sperber's contention, which is slowly bubbling up into the collective consciousness, is that big-time college basketball and football are narcotics that keep students from realizing how poor an education they are getting.
Failure to beef up the international security force now, extending its reach to cities and rural areas beyond Kabul, plays into the hands of those warlords and bandits who will keep Afghanistan from realizing the stability required for reconstruction and for the creation of a viable government before an Afghan army can be trained.
That's what's got me concerned these days: There are a lot of potential potholes, any of which we can tumble into, that will keep us from realizing all that is possible from this next wave.
They're excuses to keep you from realizing the struggle that often comes when pursuing a purpose.
"We have to work harder to make sure more young people are prepared for the jobs of the future and are unburdened by student loans that keep them from realizing their dreams," says Robin Redmond, the foundation's executive director.
Anyone would agree that Washington was dealt a tough hand, but he didn't let that keep him from realizing both his and his mother's dreams for him and their family.
The liberating work of the Spirit as witnessed in the activities of Jesus' ministry has been to address the situations and structures of exclusion, injustice and oppression that diminish God's people and keep them from realizing the full gift of human personhood in the context of human communion.
