Word: defeatingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...published of al-Qaeda's network of influence was enough to put the fear of God into any nonbeliever. How can we possibly hope to defeat such an extensive organization? I'm glad that I'm not young anymore and I'll probably not live to see the end of this devil's plan. YVONNE SMITH Satellite Beach...
...WHAT NEXT? Even with the final defeat of the Taliban, when and if that occurs, Afghan women will remain in a vexed position. The forces vying to take the Taliban's place are not always friendly to women. Within the Northern Alliance, there is a fundamental split between Western-minded technocrats and conservative religious figures. Abdullah Abdullah, the Alliance's media-savvy Foreign Minister, is a technocrat. In his speeches he makes sure to point out that in Alliance-held areas women go to school. He goes so far as to support women's joining the government...
...hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban." In death, Massoud has become the one commander no one dares sell out. "He may not be among us but the way he chose, the methods he chose, of bringing all commanders together, will always be followed," says Saboor. In a country where so many have died...
...ties with the Taliban , while the U.S. intensified the hunt for Osama bin Laden, placing thousands of troops on standby. The U.S. also deployed new high-tech sensors in surveillance planes and in scouting vehicles on the ground. DENMARK Shift to the Right Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen conceded defeat to a conservative coalition in a snap election from which he'd hoped to benefit but which was instead dominated by anti-immigrant sentiment. The Liberal Party, led by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, won more seats than the outgoing Social Democrats for the first time since 1920, after Denmark...
...Laden is killed or captured and his Afghan network destroyed, argues John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, "maintaining the impression of a clear and present danger will become more challenging, yet the requirement to create a political, economic, intelligence and legal infrastructure to defeat terrorism persists...