Word: conquered
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...Muslim," says Vidanka Misic of the Red Cross. "The people who want to help don't care whom they help." No action has been taken against these Good Samaritans by the nationalistic government of Slobodan Milosevic. Presumably he views these resettlements as part of his divide-and-conquer strategy...
Thinking of a summer trip to the new shrine, I began to research the stadium. And while Giamatti's statement is widely regarded as an endorsement, I like to think he, too, may have secretly known the truth: Camden is part of a conspiracy to conquer the Western world first by seducing it with manufactured history and then by numbing it with high-tech convenience...
...scorpion's heart"; the third a saucily imperious opera singer. Each day the chamberlain will raise the red lantern in front of one of their houses, and that woman will be blessed with the master's favors. His strategy, supported by millenniums of male domination, is divide and conquer. So the caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals as opponents and their servants as pawns. Subtly, sullenly, the women flaunt their femininity -- and in doing so destroy any chance for their sisterhood to flower. Songlian, the youngest, is the first to rebel against this system. A tragic comeuppance...
...eliminate them, Hitler had an ultimate plan to conquer Ukraine and European Russia for colonization by racially pure Aryans. The original Slavic populations would be deported or kept as slaves, educated only enough "to understand our highway signs." In 1941 Hitler actually began to carry out that program and in going to war with the Soviet Union also put into effect his "final solution to the Jewish problem," the extermination of European Jewry. While Stalin had more people put to death than Hitler did, Bullock maintains the Nazi Holocaust is unique because "mass murder became not an instrument...
...added, "It is working slowly and badly. We may know better than anyone else how unsteady are these very, very weak signs of stabilization that have taken shape." In a personal appeal published last week in London's Financial Times, Gaidar declared, "Our basic task is this: we must conquer a powerful inflation bequeathed by the old system, while at the same time rapidly introducing market forces and private ownership." Those policies are coming into place, he wrote, so "if the West wants to help us, now is the time...