All 9 Uses of
establish
in
Three Cups of Tea
- Jerene labored with the same single-mindedness to establish the Moshi International School, which catered to a cosmopolitan melting pot of expatriates' children.†
Chpt 4
- With both the school and hospital well-established, the Mortensons' work was done in Tanzania.
Chpt 4 *established = settled
- Dempsey was offered a tempting job—establishing a hospital for Palestinian refugees on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives—but the Mortensons decided it was time for their children to experience America.
Chpt 4establishing = creating
- It had stood for nearly five hundred years, and had served as a Buddhist temple before Islam had established a foothold in Baltistan.
Chpt 12established = created
- In recent years, some of the refugees have returned to the Gultori, to the two schools the Central Asia Institute has since established there, carved into caves, so that students will be safe from the shells that can still rain down from India whenever relations between the two countries chill.†
Chpt 17
- "A lot of us think about helping, but Mortenson just does it," says famed climber Jack Tackle, who donated twenty thousand dollars to help CAI establish the Jafarabad girls' elementary school in the Upper Shigar Valley.†
Chpt 18
- Zuudkhan, under the progressive leadership of Faisal Baig, and the eight other elders who formed the tanzeem, or village council, had established their own school a decade earlier.†
Chpt 19
- Not having established any formal channel to Washington, the Taliban leader would reportedly dial the White House's public information line from his satellite phone twice that October, offering to sit down for a jirga, at long last, with George Bush.†
Chpt 20
- Nine new schools in northern Pakistan were progressing smoothly, but one of CAI's established projects, the Halde School, which the aging Mouzafer had helped bring to his village, had hit a roadblock, Mortenson learned.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place