Girds

Mr. Papademos has called on the three parties that make up his coalition government to back the demanded reforms, including the controversial cuts in private-sector pay, even as Greece girds for elections widely expected to take place in April. ❋ Stelios Bouras (2012)

McClatchy: Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Ah, well, Liu Ling was wiser than you," the White Logic girds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Illinois Pension's Atlanta Play As Atlanta's market girds for a long recovery, the Illinois state teachers' pension fund is making a play for a piece of the upturn. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As Sen. Barbara Boxer girds for a tough reelection battle, she is crisscrossing California during the Senate recess to highlight what she sees as concrete accomplishments in the last year - jobs created by the economic stimulus package, benefits from the healthcare bill for seniors and the ill and tax breaks for businesses that are hiring the unemployed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the mornings, Adele girds herself for the trip to work as a warrior for battle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

India's industrial output rose at its weakest pace in nine months in May, the latest sign of slowdown for Asia's third-largest economy even as it girds for another interest rate increase this month as inflation persists. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The legal action involving mobile-communications technology comes as the Ottawa patent-licensing firm girds more attempts to bulk up to better wage patent battles. ❋ Carolyn King (2011)

Brain scientists are beginning to understand that the biochemistry and neuronal network that under girds the structure of the brain is constantly re-organizing and adapting to changes in the outer world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She girds herself with strength; and performs her tasks with vigor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A good reason to study our history then is to see the diversity that girds our unity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a lot of handwringing as the Gulf Coast girds itself for yet another devastating blow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The new site girds for that possibility by filtering for obscenities and converting them into & @*$#! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then it grows to include all Ivy Leaguers, and the boundaries quickly expand from there until Facebook officially launched just six years ago girds the planet, with nearly 500 million users posting photos, personal profiles and messages for their virtual (and sometimes real-life!) friends. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But each act of brutality girds the people's will to resist them, and while the junta may again stretch out their tenure, these elections should be viewed not as a beginning, but as the beginning of the end. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So obviously Goldberg thinks about Yglesias's arguments, and obviously if this is the sort of proof that girds a long argument about the president's socialism, better proof is needed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet girds at the start of the session. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Still, Raymond believes that the task of re-building Haiti has to come with the needed support of international players but also from within Haiti and by Haitians -- a fact borne not only because of the day-to-day realities within Haiti ( "people are trying to get back to business," he said) but by the issue of dignity, something that under-girds everything in Haiti right now. ❋ Chris Herlinger (2010)