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hay suhn

  • v  act or move at high speed
  • v  move fast
  • v  speed up the progress of; facilitate
  • v  cause to occur rapidly

  • Depending on how Paulson's power is structured, it could even postpone new federal spending on health-care reform or infrastructure improvements, or hasten the need for increased .
  • Stretched so that they cover as much as nine times their original area, the dressings help prevent the formation of scar tissue and hasten the growth of new skin.
  • No sane, educated person in Iran believes that Ahmadinejad wants a nuclear program to hasten the apocalypse, because they know his real motivation: nationalism.
News & Articles

  • God's punishment will destroy everything
    Michael Gawthrop of Reno asks why God has not destroyed us and what is he waiting for? Isaiah prophesied people would say this: “Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it!”
    June 13, 2013 - Fernley Leader
Quotes

  • President Bush in Dallas Morning News (registration)
    In his long-awaited speech last night, Mr. Bush called the situation in Iraq "unacceptable" but held out hope his moves would bring us "closer to success" and "hasten the day our troops begin coming home."
  • President Roh in Forbes
    Roh Moo-hyun said he would build on the achievements from the first North-South summit in 2000 and "hasten the slow march" in reconciliation between the two countries, which remain technically at war since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a...
  • Jon Kyl in USA Today
    If the president would say that success in Afghanistan is our only withdrawal plan - whether we reach it before July 2011, or afterward - he would make the war more winnable and hasten the day when our troops can come home with honor, which is what... John McCain http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEhauRSvpu74c5JI21AhXVu-x_kmQ Times of India http://www.google.com/url?q=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/US/David-Petraeus-vows-long-term-commitment-in-Afghan-war/articleshow/6107732.cms&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHF1CcvdvoVpEXpvHcwRIzqDs1ofA Jun 29, 2010 45751 62240 hastily I don't believe that Congress should rush to pass yet another piece of hastily crafted legislation in this very toxic atmosphere, at least without understanding the facts and the potential unintended consequences," Kyl said on the Senate floor....

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