Word: expellable
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...implication is clear: administrators and officials are losing their traditional authority to exercise arbitrary power to foreclose, to expel, to coerce. Indeed, they are even seeing a shrinkage of their freedom to make a simple decision. Will their loss lead to greater freedom and fairness for others? The answer is uncertain. One ominous precedent: some small-claims courts, created for the benefit of the individual, have been all but taken over by company lawyers who have mastered all the rules and can use them against unsophisticated buyers. Nancy Le Blanc, a New York lawyer who specializes in welfare cases...
...rotaries, it retains many of the acknowledged advantages of conventional internal-combustion engines. In standard auto engines, for example, the reciprocating actions of cylindrical pistons successively suck in a mixture of gasoline and air, compress it, turn a crankshaft after an electric spark touches off the explosive vapors, then expel the burned fuel residues. In rotary engines like the Wankel, the same effect is achieved not by reciprocating pistons but by a turning rotor. As it revolves inside a specially shaped chamber, the rotor is able to perform all the basic strokes of a piston engine: induction, compression, ignition...
...calls it-a distinctive feature. By relieving the power piston of the job of inducting air, it allows the engine to take in more air and burn its fuel during a much greater portion of each cycle than in conventional engines. Moreover, a blast of fresh air helps expel the exhaust gases before any more fuel is introduced. The net result, Ansdale explains, is not only a more efficient use of gasoline, but also less of the unburned chemical residue that is a major source of automotive pollution...
...army of the Khmer Republic has made no serious attempt to expel the Communists since its troops were dealt a disastrous defeat last December at Rumlong, 50 miles north of Phnom-Penh. That defeat led to mounting criticism of the leadership of then Prime Minister Lon Nol. He responded by canceling the constitution, dissolving the National Assembly and proclaiming himself the first President of the Republic-actions since ratified by a series of blatantly rigged elections...
...bearded doctor continued talking in his Celtic tongue. "Guards!" cried the judge. "Expel the defendant from the courtroom." As the gendarmes moved in, five of Gourvès' fellow defendants jumped to his aid, thereby setting off a five-minute melee. Order was finally restored after six gendarmes produced submachine guns...