Word: exerts
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With an attractive proposal on the table, Palestinian moderates would likely exert pressure on Arafat and extremist groups to end the violence. If violence stops and a settlement is reached, U.N. peacekeepers should step in to protect the Palestinian-Israeli border...
...camps are intended in part to enable soldiers to arrest bombmakers and gunmen, though the wanted men are often able to flee in time. A greater benefit of these operations, TIME has learned from senior Israeli officers, is to force the gunmen from the Tanzim, a Fatah militia, to exert their energy by defending their homes in the camps instead of by plotting attacks on Israelis...
...belief that in the end, “everything is gonna be alright.” This brings us back to the Harvard campus favorite, “Ride On,” which implicitly taunts the slave-owners who think they will forever be able to exert their control over the slaves, saying, “One of these mornings and it won’t be long; you’re gonna look for me and I’ll be gone...
...about to exert his will over the public airwaves. The government is slated this week to name a new board of directors for RAI, the Italian state broadcaster and only true competitor of Berlusconi's Mediaset channels. "This will ensure Berlusconi's control, directly or indirectly, of the whole national television system," says Peppino Ortoleva, professor of communications at the University of Siena. The task of choosing the five-member RAI board is in the hands of the president of the Italian Senate and speaker of the lower house of Parliament, both firm Berlusconi loyalists. The leading candidate to head...
...what do you do?” is closely tied up with the more important one, “who are you?” As staunch individualists and rather fervent egoists, our self-conceptions depend heavily on the work we do, the individual force we are able to exert on the world we seek to shape...