Word: disrupt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tried to take care of Grieve similarly to the way we took care of Hall [Penn's All-Ivy wide receiver] last week." Harvard captain and free safety Peter Coppinger said. "We tried to hit him and disrupt him at the line, and then have someone pick him up downfield...
Spartacist members outside accused the Harvard protesters of attempting to disrupt the speech, which they said had been approved routinely by University officials. "They came here to interrupt the forum, which is clearly their motive," Dean said...
...deflect domestic claims that it is not doing enough for reunification. Peking's offer also seems calculated to convince the Reagan Administration that there is no need to sell advanced jet fighters to Taiwan, an issue so serious to the Chinese that they have warned that it would disrupt relations with Washington. Finally, China may have made its offer because of the failing health of Chiang Ching-kuo, 71, President of the Republic of China. Says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at Swarthmore College: "Peking is concerned that after Chiang goes, there's no one of prestige...
...hold too much, and its aesthetic is function, not beauty, but the damn stuff almost never breaks. "The message of this book," he writes on the second page of The Road From Here, "is the blending of realism and compassion in a manner that does not disrupt society...
...intelligence sources, similarly, do not believe that the Mujahedin enjoy sufficient popular support to take over. "They can obviously disrupt and terrorize, but whether they have an alternative program and leadership to offer is far from clear," says one expert. Washington, in any event, has no illusions about its ability to influence events in Iran. "We have an interest in Iran as a buffer to Soviet expansion," an Administration official explains. "But at this point, all we can do is sit back and wait to see what happens." Although Moscow has consistently supported Khomeini, the Soviets are in a similar...