They age, they fade, they don't quite fit their girlish personalities anymore, but they muster all their strength and keep going.
And yet unlike Russians, both Indians and Turks remain more in control of their destinies, so long as they can muster the strength to transcend their parochialisms, primarily anti-Kurdish in the case of Turkey and anti-Muslim in the case of India.
I moved through rows of injured people, all lying on the ground in a critical condition, and each tried to muster some strength to move their hands or to whimper, anything to express their pain.
As to why sick damselflies disperse, it may be that fighting infection takes so much energy that the insects can't muster the strength to defend their territory, Rantala says.
So when Peter, James, and John couldn't muster the strength to stay awake and pray with their friend for merely an hour, as he asked, please believe that Jesus' heart ached.
From Aug. 2 on, government officials, military officers, strategic analysts, and the people on the street worried that the United States would not muster the strength and will to oust Iraqi forces from their southern conquest.
For those few able to muster the strength to come forward years later, it is not their perpetrator but the law itself that denies them justice.
And because Iraqis could not muster the strength to get rid of the old regime on their own, trying the guilty would let them reclaim a measure of national honor.
Judy and Jesse Paluck celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary today dressed in hospital gowns and surgical stockings, barely able to muster the strength to hold hands.
She couldn't muster the strength to brush her teeth.
Zhao said that she would try to muster the strength to go back.
