But the Taliban in Afghanistan was originally welcomed more as sheriffs than mullahs, their stern theocracy considered an antidote to plundering warlords and social chaos.
The reviewer in The Spectator wrote that "stern moralists" would consider the book's premise "as a new, ingenious, artistic, but most reprehensible application of the crude principles involved in the old-fashioned hero-worship of Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin".
Distraught over the engagement, Rose considers jumping from the stern; Jack Dawson, a penniless artist, convinces her not to.
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I found myself becoming very curious whether economists who support Sir Nicholas's pure time discount rate of near zero, such as econ bloggers John Quiggin and Brad DeLong, identify themselves as pro-choice or pro-life, and whether they had considered the Stern Report from this angle.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi also issued a stern warning to anyone considering violence.
Considered a stern test of human endurance, it also claims a backstory stretching to 490 BC and the Persian invasion of Greece.
If he follows through with his appeal, those games will be over before Commissioner David Stern considers his case.
The model considers a Brownian coagulation kernel and assumes that interactions between particles can be described through the DLVO theory, where the presence of a Stern layer is accounted for.
