Word: intactness
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With a savvy veteran among his youthful ranks, Jay utilized Donato in a role akin to coaching almost as often as playing. Nominally, he said, a hierarchy remained intact, but the actual state of affairs more closely resembled a pair on almost level footing...
...come to see me--and I look them in the eye and say, 'We're not wavering, and I expect you to be with us'--the more likely it is that we're going to rub terror out, and the more likely it is that the coalitions stay intact," Bush said in 2001. "I'm not going to relent. People may get tired of all this, but I'm not going to. Because I understand--I truly understand the call...
...deal that would empty the shrine of his fighters, and in return U.S. forces would withdraw from the city, turning over responsibility for keeping the peace to Iraqi police. But uncertainty lingered over how long the truce would last. The upstart cleric, whose Mahdi Army was allowed to withdraw intact, has reneged on agreements before, and this latest tactical retreat, after hundreds of his men had been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush al-Sadr's illegal army...
...ambiguous resolution seemed to take hold as al-Sadr's fighters removed weapons from the shrine and the numbers holed up inside dwindled from as many as 2,000 early in the week to a few hundred. But their leader emerged from the fray with much of his militia intact...
...Sadr will likely emerge from the Najaf siege intact, and his supporters will be looking for guidance on their next step. Although they were forced to surrender the Imam Ali Mosque - to Sistani, not to the Iraqi government - they also showed considerable ability to cause problems through guerrilla warfare from Baghdad to Basra, the latter city being where they took Iraq's oil exports offline for days at a time. The Iraqi government will persist with efforts to bring him on board, but he's reluctant to accord them legitimacy, and he may be assuming that the siege has actually...