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   Women in the Bible

   Fontaine writes, "The 'chutzpah' shown by the woman who bled for 12 years as she wrests her salvation from the healer's cloak is as much a measure of her desperation as it is a testimony to her faith" (Fontaine 1996, p. 291). ... Jesus reopened the Word-ministry for woman.
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   List of English words of Persian origin

   Brahmanical text Harivamsa and numerous Puranas also attest that the Kambojas, Yavanas, Sakas, Pahlavas etc were originally high-class Kshatriyas, but it was Vedic king Sagara, the ruler of Kosala, who had forbidden these invaders from performing "Svadhyayas" and "Vasatkaras" (Vedic rituals) and thereby, divested them off their noble Kshatriya status, because these Kshatriyas had wrested Kosala kingdom from his father, king Bahu . ... The word means hunting.
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   Piracha

   Piracha: A Word from Antiquity ... This explains the text of Satapatha Brahmana when it refers to ‘Sarva’ representing Agni in the eastern dialect.
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   Kambojas

   The word Komedai and Komedas suggest Kom-desa or land of Kome/Kam. ... ↑ Sasanavamsa (Pali Text Series), pp 64-65, 83 etc
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   Ten Commandments

   Text of the Ten Commandments ... Lutherans theorize that there is an antithesis between these two sides of the Word of God, the positive and the negative.
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   Glossary of terms in Hinduism

   A core sacred text of Hinduism and philosophy. ... Samadhi is also the Hindi word for a structure commemorating the dead.
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   Martin Luther

   But when he sees the Word running and contending alone on the battle-field, then he shudders and shakes for fear. ... But I am bound; I cannot get free of it; the text is too strong, and cannot be wrested from its sense by words.
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   Zork: Grand Inquisitor

   Squishization - 'wrests natural, unnatural and supernatural inclinations from the subject'. ... Wishbringer · The Lost Treasures of Infocom · Return to Zork · Zork Nemesis · Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom · Zork: Grand Inquisitor · Zork: The Undiscovered Underground
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   Zork Grand Inquisitor

   Wishbringer · The Lost Treasures of Infocom · Return to Zork · Zork Nemesis · Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom · Zork: Grand Inquisitor · Zork: The Undiscovered Underground ... Squishization - 'wrests natural, unnatural and supernatural inclinations from the subject'.
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    Michael Taussig

    In both following his text and allowing ourselves to be absorbed into it as it develops, Taussig himself comes to take on the role of the shaman, and we readers the role of the patient. ... “So it has been through the sweep of colonial history where the colonizers provided the colonized with the left-handed gift of the image of the wild man--a gift whose powers the colonizers would be blind to, were it not for the reciprocation of the colonized, bringing together in the dialogical imagination of colonization an image that wrests from civilization its demonic power” (467).

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Women in the Bible,
• List of English words of Persian origin,
• Piracha,
• Kambojas,
• Ten Commandments,
• Glossary of terms in Hinduism,
• Martin Luther,
• Zork: Grand Inquisitor,
• Zork Grand Inquisitor,
• Michael Taussig