Word: brutes
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...biggest concern for many Iraqis is al-Sadr's unwillingness to disarm the Mahdi Army militia, which has a long record of inflammatory and often criminal behavior. In areas where al-Sadr's fighters hold sway, they use brute force to impose a strict Islamic code. They are frequently accused of kidnapping and assassinating those who resist them. Many Mahdi Army fighters have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces and police, and in the aftermath of the Samarra bombing, many police vehicles in Baghdad were openly flying Mahdi Army colors--black and green. Sunni groups say policemen did nothing...
...telling oversight.Second, Harvard might consider alternatives (even if they are more costly) to their current method of slamming the ground with a metal piston. I can’t claim to know too much about construction, but I’m confident there exists a less “brute-force” solution than this prehistoric-seeming one. Harvard has been more than content to do the minimum when it relates to this construction, however, as evidenced by the fact that the machinery on site uses high-sulfur fuel, which has been linked to a host of serious health...
...just disappointed that we haven’t established enough of an identity within our locker room to be able to win games in tough environments.” Dartmouth won the races to loose pucks, the battles along the boards, and the contests of brute strength and will. “We knew we had to be physical, and they took it to us,” Crimson captain Peter Hafner said. “It’s just something that we’ve got to learn, and you can say it all the time...
...swept under the rug. Still, the state-run media has published only official accounts of the tragedy, and multiple roadblocks near Dongzhou ensure that journalists don?t investigate too closely. China?s future may depend on which aspect of the Dongzhou tragedy dominates its political system: Brute force by local police, or increasing accountability from higher-level authorities...
...thwart the Iraqi insurgency at its start. I contend that the situation was in no way secret. Non-Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict?all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...