The Egyptian Crucible

The Mediterranean Crucible

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold but man is refined by his praise.

The Syrian opposition, a crucible of widely different groups and currents including Al Qaeda will most likely become even more radical following Morsi s ouster.

This is very, very important because this is the system, this is the crucible, out of which life on the planet came, and it's now time for us to understand it.

In historical terms, the Syrian crisis, not the Arab Spring, will most likely be regarded as the Middle East s seminal event in this decade and the crucible of the region s future.

The other obvious Western concern recently expressed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the threat of a crucible of terrorism in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan endangering world security.

She attended Worthington Christian Schools from kindergarten through ninth grade and briefly attended Thomas Worthington High School, where she began acting in school plays and community theater, including a 2000 Gallery Players production of The Crucible , at a local Jewish Community Center (though she is not Jewish).