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• Even those Christians who do want to minister amid the rancor of race and policing are missing the mark.

• Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione asked residents to remain calm, amid fears of unrest.

• His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.

• It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.

• A white police officer standing amid the crowd inside the barricade got his laughs a moment later.

• The night passed amid various excursions on the part of Aristide and alarms on the part of Jean.

• In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.

• His steps led him now not to the beach, but to the Cemetery of Rocklington, amid the potato-fields.

• Dressed in full uniform, amid cries of "Long live our King Joachim," the unfortunate man landed with twenty-six followers.

• There, amid the deep silence of the listening centuries, he would find peace; forgetting himself a moment, he might find—strength.