Word: conquerer
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...thought a quick strike by his superior forces could snatch back some disputed territory from Iran and earn gratitude from Arab regimes for slaying the Persian fundamentalist Shi'ite threat. But his army failed to break Ayatullah Khomeini's revolutionary forces for eight years. Whenever they threatened to conquer pieces of his territory, he shelled them with lethal chemicals, setting a pattern of resorting to extreme measures anytime his survival seemed imperiled. When Khomeini's death finally let Saddam have a cease-fire in 1988, he declared it a great victory...
Lif’s album release brought another change as he left for Berkeley, CA to conquer new ground and be with his girlfriend...
...anger back at Uncle Sam, not at the extremist groups responsible. Why? Because the U.S. is still seen as a bully. When the U.S. seizes a North Korean ship delivering missiles to Yemen, many Asians posit another act of American imperialism. "It looks like America is still trying to conquer the world," sighs Nguyen Son Hai, a 23-year-old engineering student in Hanoi...
...understands spoken English, is already a star in print with, among other works, the young-adult favorite Koko’s Kitten and the primatologist favorite “Mirror Behavior and Self-Concept in the Lowland Gorilla.” Now she’s ready to conquer the pop music world with her latest release Fine Animal Gorilla, a benefit CD for The Gorilla Foundation...
...easy for the Church, with the political power that it wields in Los Reyes, to conquer both the village news and Amaro’s personal integrity in one brutal swoop. Its power can deflect responsibility and blame from its own stainless purity, to channel it into those less financially and politically equipped, and to find the innocent guilty. The only person who has any respect for truth and justice is, ironically, a journalist: Amelia’s ex-boyfriend, son of a liberal “heretic,” who exposes the sins of the fathers...