Word: barrelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kesri Singh, the "thakur" of the erstwhile kingdom of Mandawa, looks like an old-fashioned Indian maharajah. Over six feet tall, with a barrel chest and imperious paunch, he wears the upturned bristly gray moustache that his father and grandfather sported in their own time to mark their nobility. That much is clear from the oil paintings that loom behind Singh on a hot early morning on the verandah of his 71-room hotel, the Castle Mandawa, in the northwestern Indian region of Rajasthan...
...their own fields and courses. The cumulative effect was one of meaningless proposals, stretched to the point where they lacked any ideological or intellectual bite. The prime example is the November 2005 report, which resembled, in its inclusion of every course across all departments, a terrible piece of pork barrel legislation rather than a meaningful attempt at casting undergraduate education. Thanks to the enormous political clout professors had won from Summers’ downfall, neither the president nor other administrators had the power to reign in these partisan efforts...
...Administration was the post-World War II occupations of Japan and Germany. They had been bitter enemies of the United States; were both destroyed in a merciless world war; and eventually turned into peaceful, democratic allies of the first order. Anyone who said democracy couldn't come at the barrel of a gun was denying the obvious...
...even the notion that al-Qaeda will be our sole security risk in maintaining bases in Iraq is, to put it mildly, wishful thinking. What of Moqtada al Sadr and his Shi'ite radicals, who insist on the U.S. leaving lock, stock and barrel? And what of Iran, which apparently continues to aid and abet both Shi'ite and Sunni insurgent groups with IEDS and other weapons...
...violence has reverberations far beyond Nigeria. Oil rose above $50 a barrel for the first time when in 2004 a Nigerian Muslim militant threatened to attack the industry, while fears that the April 2007 elections would trigger renewed violence were a factor in driving the price above $66 in late May. Yergin, of Cambridge Energy Reasearch Associates, warns: "As West Africa becomes increasingly important, consumers in the U.S., Europe and Asia will discover that their own energy security depends in part on political and economic stability in West Africa." American warships already patrol off West Africa, and U.S. energy...