The strength of the reincarnationists' anxiety can be gauged by the severity of the self-mortification to which they resort to liberate themselves from the "sorrowful wheel".
"But he will, I think, have to look with positive, hopeful eyes on a church, which for all its problems is still, for so many people, a place to which they resort in times of need and crisis, a place to which they look for inspiration.
One method to which they reportedly resorted was to search every ship that sailed into the harbour of Alexandria.
No longer do these countries have the option of devaluing their currencies, which they have resorted to many times in the past.
Officials familiar with the internal State Department reports would not provide the actual statistics, but they indicated that the records showed that Blackwater personnel were involved in dozens of episodes in which they had resorted to force.
Next week, I look forward to profiling some of the heroes of this struggle, the inspiring young women and men brought together by Teach for America; first, however, a look at the defenders of a corrupt status quo and the lengths to which they will resort to defend their position at the expense of poor children, most of them black or Latino.
To get around the chicken tariff, which covered Japanese trucks, they resorted to clever ruses — like importing cabins and beds separately and bolting them together in the United States.
In peacetime, however, they were not paid and they resorted to banditry, in which case they were called Jelālīs.
It was he, likewise, who first embellished the upper city with those fine and ornamental places of exercise and resort, which they afterwards so much frequented and delighted in.
In all, Hyundai, which built the resort and runs it, has sent $850m in royalties to Mr Kim and his cronies.America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and its envoy for North Korea, Christopher Hill, who visited South Korea last week, are critical of the Mount Kumgang resort, which they believe generates cash for weapons of mass destruction.
