Word: accomplish
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...authoritarian allies and friends with the effective promotion of human rights within their countries. By inducing them to change their repressive policies, we would be enhancing freedom and democracy and helping to remove the reasons for revolutions that often erupt among those who suffer from persecution. We might therefore accomplish our purposes without replacing a rightist totalitarian regime with a leftist one of the same oppressive character. A human rights effort would also help strengthen our influence among developing nations that were still in the process of choosing their future friends and trading partners. And it was the right thing...
Obviously the author wonders whether writing a book on the whole subject is absurd. What can the scratch of a pen accomplish when all the big bangs turn banal in the end? Sometimes he presses too hard. The ball of fire that appeared over Siberia in 1908 never quite finds its symbolic connection to his account of the Russian Revolution. A narrative on the ill-used Anabaptists begins so remotely that a reader gets lost in the preliminary spirals. At Friedrich's high level of risk, a measure of failure is unavoidable. But what would we do without this...
...basic disagreements were so broad as to require a few months of negotiation by technicians working full time five days a week. I then asked Sadat to respond. He said there was already a fundamental difference of opinion, even in these preliminary comments, about what we were to accomplish at Camp David. He stated that his peace initiative to Jerusalem had brought forth a new era. The era of war was coming to an end, he said. Sadat reiterated what he and I had agreed, that we must produce a comprehensive framework for peace, not avoiding any of the controversial...
...shared with many other Americans, but as President I needed a broader perspective. For the well-being of my own country, I wanted the Middle East region stable and at peace; I did not want to see Soviet influence expanded in the area. In its ability to help accomplish these purposes, Israel was a strategic asset...
Roger H. Hull, president of Beloit, notes that the school's budget is balanced and its endowment stands at $10 million. He adds, however, that the campaign "is a way to try accomplish some special projects"--such as higher faculty salaries, new athletic facilities, and the creation of a new student center in a building that's been around for awhile-Pearson's Hall...