Courting!

For courting.

I'm going courting.

We're courting, aren't we?

Not me, I'm courting already.

You might call it courting.

In the courting days, perhaps.

Yes, but he's courting Twink Weatherby.

We didn't come here a courting.

No, they acted like any courting people.

But then I'm not courting, am I?

Then he killed prentice and came courting' me.

A lot of people have been courting me.

Try courting her as a bear. Maybe you'll get lucky!

It's a natural thing looking after the girl you're courting.

Criminals and murderers loose and you're out courting the neighbor's dog.

Here he's been courting you since I was in grammar school.

Spicer says you were seen courting on the end of the pier.

Here we are courting, the way you asked me to long ago.

If Henrik started courting me or if I took a fancy to him?

I've been courting you a year and there's been nothing worth watching so far.

So they went on about their business and from a foot away, we're watching mating and courting and fighting and it is just an unbelievable experience.

In some of those countries, the mere act of preparing a plot to grow food or allowing children to go out and play was courting death or severe injury.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is rather sensitive about foreigners meddling in domestic Israeli politics, has been openly and consistently courting congressional Republicans by attacking Obama. And Obama s response?

Israel is a special and vibrant country, filled with talented, hard working, and committed people who have much to contribute to the world. But right now its leaders, by ignoring Palestinian dreams, are courting a nightmare.

So Turkey must wonder what purpose is to be served by courting the West. Why resume, under US pressure, a nearly normal dialogue with Israel if the outcome is to be abandoned, if not betrayed, by American policy?

During the recent visit of a high level North Korean delegation to the US, there were encouraging signals that its rulers would welcome increased economic contacts, including with international financial institutions. Moreover, North Korea is actively courting foreign investment.

NEW HAVEN The Federal Reserve continues to cling to a destabilizing and ineffective strategy. By maintaining its policy of quantitative easing (QE) which entails monthly purchases of long term assets worth 85 billion the Fed is courting an increasingly treacherous endgame at home and abroad.

Their responses, however, have fallen short, following a familiar sequence that begins with waiting for an endogenous bounce and aspiring to self reliance. When no miracle arrives, they opt for capital controls and consider asset sales and leases while courting those once viewed as having perpetuated the old order.

YANGON Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The government has freed political prisoners, held elections (with more on the way), begun economic reform, and is intensively courting foreign investment.

Dependence on aid undermines the implicit contract between citizens and their government, according to which politicians must keep taxpayers satisfied in order to stay in office. With foreign infusions of cash easing the need for tax revenues, politicians are likely to spend more time courting donors than caring for their constituents.

The problem is that the AKP s victories, together with America s courting of Erdogan and Gul, have triggered a crisis of direction among Turkey s once dominant secular and pro western elite. Even if the AKP can rely on the allegiance of millions of voters and swarms of new members anxious to join the winning side, the secularists are deeply entrenched in Turkey s institutions, universities, media, and business.

But the Americans want a surge, and the US general commanding NATO forces in the country said last month that he needed three more brigades, some 15,000 troops in all, and Gates has asked the Europeans either to send or pay for them. The Americans do recognize the importance of courting those Taliban leaders they believe to be motivated by tribal loyalties rather than religious ideology, but they oppose the latest Afghan policy of negotiating directly and officially with the Taliban.

It is He who has sent down to you the Book. Parts of it are definitive verses, which are the mother of the Book, while others are metaphorical. As for those in whose hearts is deviance, they pursue what is metaphorical in it, courting temptation, and seeking its interpretation. But no one knows its interpretation except Allah and those firmly grounded in knowledge they say, We believe in it all of it is from our Lord. And none takes admonition except those who possess intellect.

It is He who has sent down to you the Book. Parts of it are definitive verses, which are the mother of the Book, while others are metaphorical. As for those in whose hearts is deviance, they pursue what is metaphorical in it, courting temptation, and seeking its interpretation. But no one knows its interpretation except Allah and those firmly grounded in knowledge they say, We believe in it all of it is from our Lord. And none takes admonition except those who possess intellect.