Word: clingingly
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...often conspiratorial view of U.S. goals in Iraq has only been reinforced by Washington's management of post-war Iraq, which has been plunged into the worst turmoil of its history. Instead of frightening other Arab dictators into mending their ways, Saddam's fate will likely encourage them to cling to power at any cost: if you leave office, you run the risk of being executed by your enemies...
...allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper cling to their self-defense mechanisms, leery of betraying deficiencies they both have in spades...
...After the serious defeats in last week’s elections, it remains to be seen if President George W. Bush will stubbornly cling to his rhetoric on spreading liberty across the globe. Iraq has failed, and the population has caught on, but the battle to hold the White House responsible for its Middle Eastern mess is far from over and the media’s ongoing failure to analyze critically promises to spoil the occasion yet again...
Nonetheless, the U.S. continues to cling to the illusion of Iraqi unity. President Bush's hopes for success in Iraq depend on two pillars: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's national-unity government and the establishment of security forces that are trusted and respected by all Iraqis. But both are shams. Al-Maliki leads a religious Shi'ite coalition that includes parties that operate the death squads that kill scores of Sunnis each day. While he says illegal militias should be disbanded, he has vigorously resisted every U.S. operation against them. The Sunnis in Iraq's government are, if anything...
...hold on, because once again the trance is shattered by the Deftones trying to cling to their played-out metal roots, screaming incessantly in “Ratsiratsirats!” There is little to say about this song besides their need to either send it to Slipknot or graphically kill it in a trap...