REFERRING to "the indescribable agony and horror of recent events", the prime minister went on to deliver a deeply-felt plea for the president to exercise caution: "The sense of outrage this brings can beget dangerous counsels, impatient and exasperated demands to hit back in ways that would widen and not end the war.
The entertainment business has always worked this way — an illusion of popularity can beget actual popularity.
And the urgency with which those enduring this pressure seek to alleviate it — either for themselves or their community — can beget strange bedfellows, because the underlying objectification in allyship is clear: In a white male-driven society, accessing the levers of power often requires partnering with, and using, those who deem your cause unworthy.
Empathy, however, can beget coziness.
Failure in the digital realm can beget real-world losses.
Mrs. Bell urged the ladies to take note of the fact that Benjamin Franklin himself had once remarked, "Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more".
With luck, a novelist can beget new lives, but he is also obliged to commemorate lives that cannot be saved.
(Read the extensive coverage in this week's issue, available online today).That said, liquidity crises can beget solvency crises.
Capably rolled screen tears can beget undeserved audience tears by evoking sorrows unrelated to the matter at hand.
Many Thais believe that calamity can beget good fortune, and that tragedy may give rise to powerful ghosts who offer guidance on winning numbers.
Walter Shandy thinks he can beget and rear the perfect child, yet Tristram is misconceived, misbaptized, miseducated, and circumcised by a falling window sash.
