Word: disrupt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Great play by Ryan Barnes to disrupt what looked like a big pass from Garton...
...people gathered there to protest the Democratic Convention taking place a few blocks away, which was about to nominate Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, thus implicitly ratifying the hated Vietnam War. Chicago mayor Richard Daley had warned the protesters not to disrupt his city and denied them permits to assemble, but they came anyway. All afternoon, the protesters chanted and the police hovered, until about 3:30, when someone climbed a flagpole and began lowering the American flag...
...surveillance of the activists that led to their inclusion in the databases took place in 2005 and 2006. "I don't believe the First Amendment is any guarantee to those who wish to disrupt the government," Thomas Hutchins, the former Maryland state police superintendent who authorized the monitoring program of the activists, told a state legislative hearing earlier this month. The names were entered into the Maryland state database, as well as a federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, and some of them may have been shared with the National Security Agency - though current state police officials...
...from buffer zones near the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and monitored by E.U. peacekeepers set an Oct. 10 deadline for Russia to return the zones to Georgia. Despite a bomb in South Ossetia's capital that threatened to disrupt the withdrawal, Russian forces continued as planned...
McCain should have stuck to his commitment to debate Obama and help Americans make an informed decision in November—not jumped into a delicate political entanglement in Washington. His ploy—which will only throw Capitol Hill into chaos and disrupt both parties’ election process—does little to put “country first.” We can only hope that Americans will see through these shenanigans for the sorry stunt they...