This frustrated some UN staffers in Sri Lanka, who gripe that such meekness plays into the hands of Sri Lanka's bullying leaders.
The urge to turn the screws, combined with the meekness of UN sanctions, has led to new efforts to divest America's pension funds from companies mainly foreign ones, or subsidiaries of American groups that do business with Iran.
However, the leader of Kosovo's hard-pressed Serbs, Bishop Artemije, showed greater meekness.
Taking all this in, the teenager hopped from his skateboard, tucked it under an arm and loped past his elders, eyes down.His meekness was not surprising.
Such meekness betrays not only a lack of moral courage, but also a poor sense of where Egypt's and the West's real interests lie.The shooting took place in Cairo early on July 27th near the parade ground where, three decades earlier, President Anwar Sadat had been assassinated.
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An established religion might advocate meekness or withdrawal from public life or promote other values that run contrary to the purposes of citizenship.
The Nazis criticized the Christian ideals of meekness and guilt on the grounds that they repressed the violent instincts necessary to prevent inferior races from dominating Aryans.
Paul then exhorts the Christian community to put away anger, malice, and foul talk and to show kindness, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and love in imitation of Christ.
The latter contains chapters on pride, meekness, modesty, and impudence, which are linked with the sense of sight; and on love, hate, compassion, and cruelty, linked with hearing and other senses.
Is that understood?" The man fell instantly silent, as if injected with some sort of meekness serum.
