

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Another late opportunity was presented by a confluence of information regarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed received by the intelligence community in the summer of 2001. This confluence of a bad tax, a $1 billion reserve, a botched opposition campaign, and voters willing to call a bluff resulted in the I-695 victory. The Alpha Male Re: "" From: Gillis Heller Date: Tues Nov 2 The confluence of Gore's attempt to become an alpha male and the death of Walter Payton brings to mind the now-macabre episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by O. Kazin was clearly delighted with this confluence of elements-Wilson translating himself into Hebrew, Singer translating himself into English, and Kazin himself telling the story, presiding over both, knitting together the two disparate elements that fueled his own unique style.ĭear Prudence, The confluence of the Slate toothpaste article and a recent event has inspired me to write. In other cases, like the soft-drink industry, a curious confluence of taste distinctions and brand identification makes meaningful challenges difficult to imagine.ĭixie Rising is structured around visits to 10 Southern locales, with each one used to illustrate the confluence of Southern and national trends. "Roy gives us a richly pictorial sense of these characters' daily routines and habits," said Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times, "and she delineates their emotional lives with insight and panache, revealing the fatal confluence of jealousy, cruelty and naivete that shapes their destinies forever. People in the Reagan administration, Reagan partisans, and Reagan himself have had obvious self-serving reasons for making such arguments-for insisting that a major event in world history that arose out of a vast confluence of factors was the result of the policies and the rhetoric of a single man.

In the confluence of the multitude, several clubs crossed blows, aimed at me, fell on other sconces. The best bottle of claret which I ever encountered emerged, quite accidentally, from the cellar of a village Inn close to the confluence of the Greta and the Tees, in a district hallowed by the associations of Rokeby and Mr. We first kept along the Alp, with the Jäggi glacier to our right, then crossed its moraine, and made the trunk glacier our highway until we reached the point of confluence of its branches. English words and Examples of Usage Example
