Word: insertive
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...foresee a point when you or the Secretary of State will insert yourself more aggressively, when there...
...pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations with nukes that threatened American interests; Bush would treat them not as the friends or strategic partners of Clinton's dreams but as competitors and potential aggressors...
...pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations with nukes that threatened American interests; Bush would treat them not as the friends or strategic partners of Clinton's dreams but as competitors and potential aggressors...
...technology-news website CNet, Rob Coleman, one of the wizards at George Lucas' famously secretive special-effects shop Industrial Light & Magic, confirmed that this time around, a computer-generated character will play a lead role, not just a sidekick--a first for a full-length live-action film. (Insert obligatory Jar-Jar Binks joke here...
...unlike entering a bar: pleasantries exchanged at the door, identification checked, then the coast is clear and the real business (of providing your daily metaphor) can begin. The Crimson's decision to insert pictures of the editorial writers is, it seems, not simply of human or visual interest. It's a brilliant reminder of the fundamental social contract into which we have entered as writers of opinion, that is to say, facts skewed, perhaps beyond recognition--an anonymity checked by our (newly enlarged) photographs...