Word: clamoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gamesmanship, he is stranded on the wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist bedrock upon which he built his edifice of power has proved itself bankrupt on virtually every continent of the globe. As his own people clamor for a better life, Cuba's socialist dream appears to be fading fast...
...Smith is not along in exemplifying the new Gestapo-guidelines of artistic academia. Pick up any poetry journal or writers' anthology; what you'll get everywhere is warmed-over histrionics and clamor...
...percent of the estimated $58 billion cost of rebuilding the city. In addition, the government eased restrictions on foreign doctors seeking to treat victims of the quake, and reduced the income tax burden on residents who suffered the heaviest losses. But the measures did little to curb the clamor of the opposition New Frontier Party -- some of whose members are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama...
...failed to cure our ills but actually seem to have made them worse. Intensely felt public opinion leads to the impulsive passage of dubious laws; and meanwhile, the same force fosters the gridlock that keeps the nation from balancing its budget, among other things, as a host of groups clamor to protect their benefits. In both cases, the problem is that the emerging cyberdemocracy amounts to a kind of "hyperdemocracy": a nation that, contrary to all Beltway-related stereotypes, is thoroughly plugged in to Washington -- too plugged in for its own good...
Seen from Washington, the Bosnian war is one of Serb aggressors and Bosnian Muslim victims. Each time the Serbs advance, some in Congress clamor for an aggressive U.S. response. However, to the British and French governments providing the bulk of the U.N. forces, all factions in the country are responsible for the vicious civil war. A senior U.N. observer in Sarajevo says Rose is not exactly pro-Serb but may be anti-Bosnian. "Rose's interest is in keeping everything quiet, in preserving the status quo," he says...