When the U . S . did finally bestir itself and pressured Japan to take remedial action, the Hashimoto Administration cleverly tried to negate further pressure ( the Japanese are always good at that ) by solemnly promising that the government would take necessary action to avoid starting a global recession.
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"The latest futile and fruitless Razali visit to Burma must bestir ASEAN to resolute action to demonstrate its commitment not to allow Myanmar to continue to hamper and sully ASEAN's international reputation and standing _ by suspending Myanmar's participation at the ASEAN Bali summit,"
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Over one year later, after news stories and columns about Clinton's " Asian connection " had stimulated law enforcement officials and a Senate committee to bestir themselves, FBI Director Louis Freeh and Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet went to the office of Energy Secretary Federico Pena.
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This transition from preaching to meddling in economic development could provide the catalyst to bestir African-Americans to the kind of united effort that is needed to overcome the self-destructive forces undermining African-American communities from within and the new wave of ethnic animosity and rightist extremism threatening it from without.
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In his sermon, attended by the president in Gdansk, he said that the Star of David was " associated with the symbols of the swastika as well as the hammer and sickle " and called on Poles to bestir themselves against forces in the government that might come from Russia and Israel.
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Not until France belatedly, and for mixed motives, sent in a couple of thousand soldiers did anyone in the West lift so much as a finger to stop the killing; nor, once the refugees had suddenly poured out, did western governments do more than sluggishly bestir themselves to try to contain a catastrophe.
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Unless President Bush bestirs himself, the controversy over snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park is likely to become for Interior Secretary Gale Norton what arsenic was for Christie Whitman : a thoroughly misguided and wholly unnecessary policy initiative that favors a small group of people Bush has in his camp anyway while annoying a far larger constituency he can ill afford to lose.
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After having stung himself to write these words, he will probably not bestir himself to do the harder thing, which is to walk the picket line with his fellow citizens, sit hour after hour on the hard chairs of legislative chambers, raising the kind of hell we raised in better days, when at least we kept the Beast at bay.
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When " The Weir " made a fleeting appearance last year in the Court's 60-seat studio at the Ambassador's, you felt you were actually sitting in the desolate west-of-Ireland pub where it is set, warming yourself at its smoky old stove, and waiting for the owner to bestir himself enough to draw a pint of Guinness and shove it at you across his plank of a bar.
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This teaching is originally based on the Talmud in tractate " Ketubot " 111a, which discusses a passage from the Song of Songs in the " Tanakh " ( Hebrew Bible ) in which God made the Israelites promise " to wait for Him before arousing his love " as " King Solomon in Song of Songs thrice adjured the daughters of Jerusalem not to arouse or bestir the love until it is ready . " The Talmud explains that we are bound by three strong oaths mentioned in Ketubot 111a-1 . that the Jewish people are not allowed to ascend to " Eretz Yisrael " by force; 2 . that the Jewish people are not allowed to rebel against the nations of the world; 3 . that the Jewish people may not by their sins delay the coming of Moshiach, the Jewish messiah.
