Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worse. Demonstrating blissful ignorance about Somali politics, we tried to impose a ready-made TV dinner of a political settlement on the country. Then, when one clan leader called our bluff, we got all red in the face and tried to destroy him. All we destroyed was our credibility...
...that end, students are encouraged to specialize in specific areas. "[That is] against the traditional school agenda, which seeks to destroy diversity," Brown said...
...because the head is very, very close to the platter surface--typically only one one-thousandth of an inch away--any physical shock to the hard disk could well cause the metal head to scratch over the platter surface and destroy whatever information that's stored in the path. Such damages are physical and therefore unrecoverable: your data is simply lost forever...
...struggle with conservative lawmakers to abide by Russia's Soviet-era constitution while he pushed the go-slow parliament to adopt free-market changes. At times he came perilously close to overstepping the law. But he always beat a retreat, fearing that any challenge to the lawful order might destroy the state...
...those few who do take up the gun say it is their duty to destroy leaders and governments that fail to rule strictly by Shari'a, the Islamic legal code. Violent Islamists usually pursue both a political and a social agenda in the name of the faith. While no state in the world is governed purely by Shari'a -- even Iran, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, which come closest to the ideal, compromise in some ways with the modern world -- Islamists focus their ferocity on the Muslim states such as Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, which have tried to modernize...