Word: accomplish
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...after all, denounced the Iraqi dictator as being in some respects "worse than Hitler," organized a multinational crusade to crush his military power and repeatedly called for his overthrow. For the past four weeks, Shi'ite Muslims in the south and Kurds in the north have been trying to accomplish just that. Yet after Bush met with his top national security advisers last week, the President made it clear that U.S. military forces now occupying southern Iraq will give no overt assistance to the rebels...
...regular closed meetings held by the Task Force have been essential to our progress. Because an established group of people comes to each working meeting, we are able to accomplish a great deal in the little time available. As well, the confidential atmosphere of the meetings allows people to speak their minds comfortably, without fear of being misunderstood or misquoted. This freedom allows the group to discuss openly the difficult but crucial issues that surround acquaintance rape...
Hussein's transfer of power would have all sorts of redeeming effects. But establishing democratic government would accomplish one thing above all: it would transform Jordan into a Palestinian state. New Palestine (or whatever it got called) would be what Palestinians, and the King, have been struggling to create for two generations. Their efforts have focused on the West Bank and Gaza, unlikely places now for a Palestinian state, rather than Jordan. But the new government would reflect Jordan's bottom line: a large Palestinian majority in a nation where Palestinians control 75% of the wealth...
Suppose, Jon, that I decided I had something to gain in taking your life. I could accomplish this by asserting violence against your physical resistance--I could beat you to death with a crowbar or slash your throat with a knife. This would certainly be a horrible crime. But is it the physical violence against your persistent resistance that distinguishes the act as a crime...
Besides having his servants abuse his young rival, Arnolphe uses his educated influence to train Agnes to be the perfect Bible-reading woman. Moliere intended the simple Agnes and noble Horace to be desperate heroes forced to fight to defy their oppressors. To their credit, both actors managed to accomplish this illusion and remain entertaining...