Word: defeate
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...protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts have upheld Chen's winning margin, KMT chairman Lien Chan, who ran against Chen, has yet to concede defeat, and the KMT and its allies have used their current slim majority in the legislature to block everything from buying U.S. arms to changing history books...
...share information in the interest of mutual security. A lasting solution to global terrorism will only come when America can both eradicate terrorism and unambiguously hold the moral high ground. Incidents like those described in this Red Cross report, then, handicap this country’s ability to defeat terror. Although torturing prisoners may yield some helpful strategic information, it is an indefensible and illegal practice. America’s reputation is weakened every time abuses like these are made public—which in turn likely mitigates the value of that information. Equally important, these practices strike...
...eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls for a new strategy for advocating gay rights. Harvard students in particular have a chance to make a real impact on issues of sexuality in their home states, but they need to take a new approach...
This is no accidental presidency. Bush intends his to be a consequential presidency. And he knows that in January 2009 it all ends. This is a man on a mission, indeed several missions. And very little time. If that scares the Democrats who tried everything to defeat him--and those around the world who were desperately hoping for his replacement and repudiation--it should...
...ninth, and Rudy York won it in the 10th with a blast to the last row of the bleachers--and I was the only one in the park yelling. I'm happy for today's Boston kids, but most of them have never known the character-building advantages of defeat. I've developed enough character to last the rest of my life, with some left over to give to any New York fans out there. A Massachusetts girl said it best: "Success is counted sweetest/ By those who ne'er succeed." Emily Dickinson would have been...