- the act or an instance of motivating.
- the state or condition of being motivated.
- something that motivates; inducement; incentive.
Even a little would be nice.
|1.||the normal, non warring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.|
|2.||an agreement or treaty between warring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to end hostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism: the Peace of Ryswick.|
|3.||a state of mutual harmony between people or groups, esp. in personal relations: Try to live in peace with your neighbors.|
|4.||the normal freedom from civil commotion and violence of a community; public order and security: He was arrested for being drunk and disturbing the peace.|
|5.||cessation of or freedom from any strife or dissension.|
|6.||freedom of the mind from annoyance, distraction, anxiety, an obsession, etc.; tranquility; serenity.|
|7.||a state of tranquility or serenity: May he rest in peace.|
|8.||a state or condition conducive to, proceeding from, or characterized by tranquillity: the peace of a mountain resort.|
|9.||silence; stillness: The cawing of a crow broke the afternoon's peace.|
|10.||) a comedy (421 b.c.) by Aristophanes.|
|11.||(used to express greeting or farewell or to request quietness or silence).|
|12.||Obsolete. to be or become silent.|
|13.||at peace, |
|14.||hold or keep one's peace, to refrain from or cease speaking; keep silent: He told her to hold her peace until he had finished.|
|15.||keep the peace, to maintain order; cause to refrain from creating a disturbance: Several officers of the law were on hand to keep the peace.|
|16.||make one's peace with, to become reconciled with: He repaired the fence he had broken and made his peace with the neighbor on whose property it stood.|
|17.||make peace, to ask for or arrange a cessation of hostilities or antagonism|
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip - with reporters in tow - to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.
But the size and scope of Mr. Bush's and Mr. Cheney's private endeavors to meet with wounded soldiers and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.
"People say, 'Why would you do that?'" the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. "And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be - to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.
Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching - balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin - that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.
"I lean on the Almighty and Laura," Mr. Bush said in the interview. "She has been very reassuring, very calming."
Mr. Bush also has met privately with more than 500 families of troops killed in action and with more than 950 wounded veterans, according to White House spokesman Carlton Carroll. Many of those meetings were outside the presence of the news media at the White House or at private sessions during official travel stops, officials said.
The first lady said those private visits, many of which she also attended, took a heavy emotional toll, not just on the president, but on her as well.
|1.||any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.|
|2.||an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most mammals.|
|3.||a similar fine, filamentous outgrowth from the body of insects, spiders, etc.|
|4.||Botany. a filamentous outgrowth of the epidermis.|
|5.||cloth made of hair from animals, as camel and alpaca.|
|6.||a very small amount, degree, measure, magnitude, etc.; a fraction, as of time or space: He lost the race by a hair.|
|7.||get in someone's hair, Slang. to annoy or bother someone: Their snobbishness gets in my hair.|
|8.||hair of the dog, Informal. a drink of liquor, supposed to relieve a hangover: Even a hair of the dog didn't help his aching head. Also, hair of the dog that bit one.|
|9.||let one's hair down, Informal. |
|10.||make one's hair stand on end, to strike or fill with horror; terrify: The tales of the jungle made our hair stand on end.|
|11.||split hairs, to make unnecessarily fine or petty distinctions: To argue about whether they arrived at two o'clock or at 2:01 is just splitting hairs.|
|12.||tear one's hair, to manifest extreme anxiety, grief, or anger: He's tearing his hair over the way he was treated by them. Also, tear one's hair out.|
|13.||to a hair, perfect to the smallest detail; exactly: The reproduction matched the original to a hair.|
|14.||without turning a hair, without showing the least excitement or emotion. Also, not turn a hair.|
You Are a Haunted House
You are a deeply complicated and sometimes deeply disturbed person.
You can't help but be attracted to the dark side of life - even when it's pretty gruesome.
In relationships, you are honest and real. So real that it's definitely a little scary.
You don't fake it or play along just to get along. And people either respect this... or deeply resent it
Your life is thoughtful, deep, and even philosophical at times.
You see the world as it is. You don't sugar coat anything.
Facing and fighting your fears is important to you. You believe that too much of life is whitewashed.
You're not too morbid... you just believe that you can't enjoy life without exorcising a few demons first!
At your best, you are brave, intense, and fearless.
Not only do you face the abyss head on - you challenge your friends to do the same.
At your worst, you are depressed and morose.
If you're not careful, your thoughts take over your mind... and they aren't pretty!
Joseph Martin Luther Gardner was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. Friday in the state's death chamber in Columbia. He did not make a final statement, but did mouth the words "Thank you. I'm OK," to a relative who witnessed his death.
Gardner was convicted in the 1992 kidnapping, rape and slaying of 25-year-old Melissa "Missi" McLauchlin.
Police said Gardner and his co-defendants decided to kill a white woman as retribution for slavery. But the victim's family and Gardner's attorneys say they don't think the killing had anything to do with racial revenge. Source.
|1.||doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.|
|2.||an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.|