He is the only one who didn't betray the people and co-operate with the Americans". The fighters here in Najaf have rallied behind Mr Sadr, the scion of a highly respected clerical family, because unlike all other leading Shia political leaders he has so far shunned involvement in the pro-American governments.
Before the episode, which took place in September 2001, the inspector general's office would have shunned involvement in such a matter and would have told any groups seeking such intervention to take complaints directly to Medicare regulators, Ms. Rehnquist's predecessor and other officials said.
PARIS, Aug. 21 — After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes that it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions there.
He washes at the steel sink attached to his toilet and shuns involvement with most other inmates he sees as gang members or enmeshed in prison culture.
She also advised her readers to shun "unfeminine" involvement in public affairs.
Phoebe Worrall Palmer provided a typically evangelical impulse to challenge social boundaries (in this case strictures against women's public participation), yet emphasized an individual holiness that encouraged many evangelicals to shun political involvement.
Roland "shunned emotional involvement" and chose "to redefine love as an intellectual exercise".
Hefazat is determined to influence the outcome of the election scheduled for early 2014, though it shuns direct involvement in politics, perceived as "impure".
Less enthusiastic has been the response of Plath's daughter, Frieda, who shunned all involvement with the project; indeed in her own riposte, a poem entitled My Mother, she refers to the film, and the continued infatuation with Plath, as both a "monster" and a "Sylvia Suicide Doll".
Not because I want to know if he's gay or bi or straight, but because I can't understand how a man who apparently shuns emotional involvement and physical proximity of any kind can write with such passion and desire.
At any rate, I had no Oedipal motive to discard it; at college and then in New York City I found my way fitfully to Lutheran services, shunning deeper involvement but stealing away cleansed and lightened, and taking a certain contrarian pride in participating in ceremonies that, by the wisdom of the world, were profitless and irrational.
