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First, that Summorum Pontificum has clearly been of vital importance in nerving even those parts of the world episcopate less than fully sympathetic towards the 1962 Missal to reassert the continuity of orthodox Catholic teaching on human salvation - a teaching that the traditional liturgy presents without ambiguity, and indeed with unsurpassed beauty and clarity.

Confessing the Messiah: The Church's Confession of Christ in Jewish-Christian Dialogue - Introduction Pt. II 2009

'nerving' or 'unnerving,' and it was not until 1823, at the suggestion of Dr. George Pearson, that Percival introduced the word _neurotomy_ to signify the operation with which we are now about to deal.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

For behind him, nerving him to this belief, were profounder forces than any the crowded house dreamed.

The Mexican 2010

In a coincidence that was both charming and un-nerving, he had become a kind of "Gilles" himself.

John Seed: Los Angeles Artist F. Scott Hess Walks the Tightrope 2010

Coming from the point of both cyclist and motorist I find it very un-nerving when cyclist transition in this way.

The High Road: Working Your Way Up BikeSnobNYC 2010

There was indeed the sound of shouting in the street, and a little group of compositors and pressmen was forming in the hall below and nerving itself to action.

Chennai 2010

Such a style, even though it primarily works at a subconscious level on the spectator, is 'un-nerving' to 'ordinary viewers' because is is making quasi-intellectual demands that common naturalism - the de facto standard for commercial cinema - almost never does.

Malick's Tree of Life Officially Hitting Theaters in November « FirstShowing.net 2010

The result might be a sweeping stroke that looked spontaneous and inevitable, but in nerving myself each time to scrape down to the grey I was cravenly aware that a mistake couldn't be put right.

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

Jerzy was nerving himself to flee back outside when the interior door opened again and a weaselly man with a patchy mustache entered.

DBTL 21: A Post About Nothing Johnny Pez 2009

Jerzy was nerving himself to flee back outside when the interior door opened again and a weaselly man with a patchy mustache entered.

Archive 2009-04-01 Johnny Pez 2009