The purpose apparently was to remove the fangs from any serious commitments and stir the smoldering embers of discontent and disunity that were already in place as nations around the world faced compromises they were already reluctant to accept. .
The Senate provision, which would remain in force until 2014, contains no such compensation, and has not stirred serious opposition in Congress.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With a flood watch in effect in southern Ohio and an icy mix predicted for northern parts of the state, like the heavily populated Cleveland area, the storm system that is sweeping eastward and northward (think Vermont) has stirred serious worries about what had been anticipated as a high turnout at the polls in four primary states today.
For Doc, who stumbled into the detective trade and found that it suited his easygoing lifestyle, his beach bum neighbors are ideal clients, prone to getting into minor jams but disinclined to stir up serious trouble.
It was also good, serious music, and it stirred innumerable young minds at a crucial time in history.
Though McMurtry's work hasn't stirred the serious critical attention it probably deserves, graduate students yet unborn will doubtless plunder his books for biographical clues and cultural cross-references.
The recently concluded National Book Awards always stirs up serious book lovers: this author was undeserving, that author a charity case, another far too young for such a prize.
Steve Rose's piece, in response to Andrea Arnold's decision to cast an Afro-Caribbean Heathcliff, stirred plenty of serious and intelligent debate, and some less intelligent.
It's probably fitting that Takeshi Kitano goes by the nickname Aniki in his yakuza spectacular "Brother" because he stirs up some serious anarchy on the Los Angeles crime scene.
My takeaway included a chicken curry with serious depth of flavour, a stir-fried cabbage thoran of exemplary delicacy and a lentil and mixed-vegetable sambar, packed with curry leaves, mustard seeds and whole chillies, which was warm, comforting and deeply savoury – like a Keralan winter broth.
