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...Scotland’s landscapes and woollen mills have long had a romantic pull on the imagination, and having to cross the water at the mercy of the elements perhaps only adds to Bute’s allure....
...Though perhaps not as much as “dignity” and “mercy”, both of which are invoked repeatedly across his autobiography and the subsequent press coverage....
...That has left it at the mercy of global LNG prices....
...But somehow, in Anne’s pieces, I don’t feel scared or nervous, and it is so much more risky than other kinds of performances, but I think a lot of my comfort comes from how Anne believes that I can do this...
...French Braid by Anne Tyler, Chatto & Windus £16.99/Knopf $27, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The latest novel by the French-Moroccan author Leïla Slimani is inspired by the life of her grandmother, Anne Ruetsch....
...Anne Lamott, 66, is the author of best-selling non-fiction titles such as Traveling Mercies, Operating Instructions, Hallelujah Anyway and Some Assembly Required, as well as novels including Imperfect Birds...
...One of the greatest, and often least practised, Christian values is humility — in the Hebrew prophet Micah’s words, “act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God”....
...(The nuns of the Sisters of Mercy order, for example, have hyperactive activists.)...
...The Department for International Development is considering the possibility of procuring a ship similar to the US’s Mercy-class of vessels, which were converted from oil tankers in the 1980s....
...And while God remained angry “for our sins”, he nonetheless “remembered mercy”....
...It is like being given the keys to the city: journey times are slashed, you are no longer at the mercy of traffic jams and train delays, and you begin to understand how this city of conjoined villages fits...
...According to a paper by Melanie Li-Wen Long and Anne Campbell, the dominant constraint historically for women was the risk of not settling for an adequate mate and ending up alone, rather than picking too...
...Instead, we must show beleaguered citizens, who feel that they are at the mercy of political forces beyond their control, that they are in fact the majority....
...“We are at the mercy of arbitrary decisions which could be taken at any moment by the US authorities,” he said....
...However, without basic number facts at our fingertips, we are at the mercy of those who would hoodwink us in a world of numbers....
...In last week's op-ed pages, Anne-Marie Slaughter downplayed concerns about the market concentration pursued by big media companies....
...Social media can help beleaguered citizens to feel that they are not alone, that they are not at the mercy of political forces beyond their control....
...Anne Simpson, head of corporate governance at Calpers, called Snap’s attitude a “banana republic-style approach”....
...The “populist international” (Anne Applebaum’s spot-on label) stands out by having the bullies on its side....
...Today Mantel sees the world again “at the mercy of a rumour system”, this time online news. Can she help us to tell history from myth, truth from fiction?...
...This is why the next British Prime Minister should not expect any mercy from President Hollande in the forthcoming EU negotiations – especially before the election or before a formal Article 50 divorce is...
...Probably a small mercy given what we endure in the White House race....
...Speaking to journalists outside Le Bataclan, a concert hall where many died, he pledged: “We are going to lead a war without mercy.”...
...Ruth Scurr Historian and author of ‘John Aubrey: My Own Life’ Anne Enright’s new novel, The Green Road (Jonathan Cape/WW Norton), is a powerful evocation of leaving and returning home....
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