Word: aligners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that international law will work with these states--notice what little recourse the Islamic world had when Afghanistan was invaded. Unfortunately for us, the Sandinistas have inaugurated Nicaragua into this fraternity of outlaw nations. Even while the United States was giving Nicaragua economic aid, the Sandinistas were deciding to align themselves with the soviets, engage in an unprecendented military buildup, and spread their revolution to El Salvador. Their revolutionary position predates by far the Reagan Administration's efforts at covert...
...says. Vellucci, however, is less enthusiastic. Although in age and in style of politics, as well as in general ideological leaning. Vellucci is closer to the conservative bloc than the liberal one, his strong and vocal support of rent control and other housing-related issues caused him to align himself with the liberal camp on many controversial decisions in the past, enabling him to wield considerable power as the council's swing vote...
...succeeded by the forceful Berri, a lawyer by training, who quickly won a reputation for keeping his own counsel. Like other Muslim leaders, Berri has fiercely opposed the Christian Phalangists. But although the Amal gets much of its financial and military support from the Syrians, Berri has refused to align himself completely with Damascus, arguing that the Amal's interests are best served by remaining independent...
...Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua is still lurching through an erratic political and social transformation, in which many of the ultimate goals of the regime are, at best, haphazardly defined. Consequently, Nicaragua abounds in paradox and ambiguity as its leadership claims to be launched upon a new experiment: an attempt to align Marxism-Leninism with the principles of political pluralism and democracy. Says a sympathetic American observer: "The Sandinistas really like to believe they have invented a new way, a laissez-faire, nonstructured Marxism in which people, if given a free choice, will naturally become more socialist...
Instead, the court is pulled first thisaway, then thataway in a shifting tug-of-war as the Justices align themselves differently on almost every case. That tendency, noted in earlier terms, had been called a temporary phenomenon while a new majority matured. It now seems clear that the nature of this court is not to be an ideological player in the nation's politics, but rather to be an umpire calling the plays of others...