Luxon’s Gaza Gaffe Exposes His Naivety and New Zealand’s Weakness
Luxon’s blunder highlights New Zealand’s irrelevance. Our defence is a joke, underfunded by successive governments too busy on social experiments.
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Talwar contested the 2022 local government elections and experienced similar instances of vandalism. “[But] not to this extent,” he said. “This year seems particularly nasty.”
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The word for today is… contrite (adjective): : feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. Source : Merriam -Webster Etymology : Saying sorry (in something other than a nonapology, of course) is an important part of being contrite—that is, feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for
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And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
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