Word: enlist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush administration has been quietly promoting its "Greater Middle East Initiative" in recent weeks, looking to enlist European support for a program to promote reform and democracy in the Arab world. But the most consistent point of criticism from Arab capitals is that the document ignores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. U.S. officials counter by insisting that the unresolved conflict in the Holy Land can't be used as an excuse to delay desperately needed reforms throughout the region. President Bush's European allies, first among them Britain's Tony Blair, have long warned that the Bush administration's failure...
...recently left his wife to move in with a recently single younger girl. Needless to say, her name is Deirdre and John is very angry to learn that she failed her test. Lehiff offers him the chance to get even: help him rob Sam while holding Deirdre hostage. They enlist a third member for their gang, Mick, who has just been fired from bus-driving after a young boy threw a rock through his window, causing him to crash...
...Geisel PM cartoons that Cohen reproduces enlist the Seuss menagerie in a dirty holy war. One panel has both a Hortonish elephant ("G.O.P.") and an "isolation ostrich: smiling indulgently at their "baby" - a squalling hybrid label a "GOPstrich" - as the elephant says, "He's a noisy little-so-and-so, but, sweetheart, he's all ours!" A serpent with swastikas snakes across the Atlantic while a figure marked Lindbergh pats its head, declaring, "'Tis Roosevelt, Not Hitler, that the World Should Really Fear." Seuss' mascot for America, an eagle with an Uncle Sam beard and striped top hat, sits...
Herrera helped to establish all four branches of Anna’s Taqueria before finally deciding to enlist Brush’s support and strike...
Reducing gang crime in the 77th was one of Bratton's priorities when he took command of the department 15 months ago. He instructed his commanders to get more patrol officers out on the street, make detectives work late nights and weekends, enlist the help of federal law-enforcement agencies like the FBI and the DEA, conduct more search-warrant and surveillance missions and generally get in the gangsters' faces more. Frequently, he would turn up at a late-night crime scene and observe how his officers handled investigations...