Word: flank
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...Even absent the challenge from Peres on his left flank, Barak will certainly struggle to beat Sharon, according to the current poll numbers. But poll numbers may be misleading, since it's far from clear that the supporters of the religious parties and other smaller groups will actually bother to vote. These factions typically express their support for a prime ministerial candidate during a parliamentary election in which they're going to the polls primarily to vote for their own party, but this election is only for the post of prime minister. The rabbis may simply advise supporters...
...sight. National television had already gone live last Thursday afternoon to the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where a row of Israeli flags had been set up to flank Prime Minister Ehud Barak as he prepared to announce a cease-fire that would halt five weeks of bloodshed. But in Jerusalem people heard another voice ring out--a terrible, too familiar boom. Police rushed through the narrow alleys of the Mazkoret Moshe neighborhood, hammering on doors to evacuate shaken elderly residents. Thick smoke filled the alleys. Black-hatted yeshiva students ducked around corners, calling out in Yiddish for their friends...
...most part, the left side of the Crimson defensive line kept Reese from wheeling off the flank and collecting yards on the outside, where he feels most comfortable. Except for a 34-yard sideline sprint in the third quarter and a perfectly executed halfback pass before halftime, Reese never substantially factored in the game...
...Both men are spending and stumping in crucial states they expected to be able to ignore by now. Gore is still playing defense in California, Bush in Florida. Gore has Nader gnawing on his left flank in the Northwest and Midwest battlegrounds; Bush is struggling with a gender gap and a slight undecideds problem. Each is trying to lure a constituency to the polls - Gore the poor, Bush the young - that has never bothered to show up before...
...violence, it doesn't fly easily as a geopolitical option. The point of making peace with the Palestinians was to be able to withdraw from the West Bank on the basis of agreements preventing the territory becoming a base for hostility against the Jewish state along its most vulnerable flank. And unilaterally deciding which parts of the occupied territories will be ceded to the Palestinians and then simply closing the door is an invitation in the long run to make war rather than peace. Whatever its emotional appeal, the plan's strategic logic appears to be the opposite of that...