arousing

• “The perception of those much younger than us as sexually arousing is completely interwoven into our culture.”

  THE ILLUSION OF HOME AS SANCTUARY FOR CHILDREN

• “One probable reason for Cormack's difficulty in arousing interest in his experiments was that the computers of the time were incapable of executing - within a reasonable amount of time - the enormous calculations the procedure required.”

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 - Presentation Speech

• “However, Florey succeeded in arousing the interest of the authorities in the”

  Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech

• “The question is, will we rise to the situation, will we do our duty, will we aid in arousing public opinion to the danger which lies ahead of us?”

  Save Our Timber and Forest Industries

• “It is, I think, the duty of Canada to give trumpet-tongued expression to Canadian public opinion against such fiendish doctrines; to broadcast her views throughout the world; to take the lead, if needs be, in arousing other nations, and thus to produce a world opinion that man is subject to divine laws.”

  A Complimentary Luncheon to The Right Honourable Sir William Mulock, Chief Justice of Ontario, Chancellor of the University of Toronto

• “After considerable shouting and knocking at doors along the passage, he succeeded in arousing the landlady, who came in, buttoning her blouse.”

  Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

• “The value of these groups consisted almost entirely in arousing a higher imagination and in giving the children the opportunity which they could not have in the crowded schools, for initiative and for independent social relationships.”

  Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes

• “Raymon had the art of being often culpable without arousing hatred, often eccentric without being offensive; indeed he sometimes succeeded in arousing the pity of people who had the most reason to complain of him.”

  Indiana

• “Not succeeding in arousing enthusiasm for our school of household science, we next turned our attention to what could be done in the way of establishing a housekeepers 'emergency bureau, which is, as its name indicates, to supply temporary help, the employe returning to her home each day.”

  The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses

• “They were so repulsive that instead of appealing to one's sympathy they only succeed in arousing one's disgust.”

  Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

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