I didn't KNOW exactly what to expect when I first CAME to Seattle but I have to say that how the city and the fans have embraced me has gone beyond my wildest DREAMS and for that I am forever grateful.

I feel like the Internet has embraced the PIZZA DANCE. I feel APPRECIATED for once in my LIFE.

Long before, and fully INDEPENDENT of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was GOING to PRESERVE the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo EVEN once he closed the camp. President Obama fully embraced indefinite detention - the defining injustice of Guantanamo - as his own POLICY.

The PRIMARY theory embraced by the BUSH administration to justify its War on Terror POLICIES was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but INSTEAD, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.'

When I embraced the ROCK hat, when I put it on TWO or three years ago, when I realized I'm gonna go and make really focused rock ALBUMS, it felt LIKE wearing an OLD shoe. It was a perfect fit.

So many tech companies have embraced a mission that they say is LARGER than profits. Once you WRAP yourself up in a moral FLAG, you have to CARRY it to the top of other hills.

When you're in PRISON, you EITHER embrace religion or you REJECT it. I embraced it; it was a very SPIRITUAL time for me.

After so much SUFFERING, after enduring so much SACRIFICE, sanctioned and embraced by our PEOPLE, what is it that the people of EAST Timor EXPECT as a result of independence?

In EVERY AREA, we seem to have thrown EVERYTHING AWAY and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

The value of 'Made in ITALY' must NECESSARILY be up-to-date. This is the PHILOSOPHY that Italia Independent has embraced. We DECIDED from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme PACE, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

I've always FELT embraced by the Broadway COMMUNITY EVEN before I felt like I EARNED it.

'Mi Gente' is a SONG that embodies a SPECIAL moment in music - a NEW SOUND of a Latino CULTURE on the rise and being embraced globally.

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years TRYING to suppress my naturally baroque LITERARY voice and WRITE CLEAN, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I WROTE the Kushiel series.

For as long as this NATION has KNOWN war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile FIRE and thanked those who perished in their DEFENSE.