Word: mobbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thirty-three people were killed in a shoot-out with army officers in front of the presidential palace. Fourteen more were killed when a mob of angry demonstrators set fire to a gas station. When 30,000 fervent demonstrators descended on the Bolivian capitol—which, in a stroke of tragic irony, is named La paz (“The peace”)—they came with a list of 72 demands on president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. The first demand was for him to leave office...
...point in the Shoah scene, an old lady evokes a line from Matthew 27:25, in which a rabid Jewish mob calls for Jesus’s crucifixion, proclaiming “His blood be on us, and on our children.” This line in particular has been a major focus of the controversy, as it has traditionally been identified as evidence of collective Jewish guilt for deicide...
...Halliburton’s mob...
...track is a gilded prison of sumptuously layered electro-orchestration and bongo breaks, distant blips and nostalgic raps (“When I found that Santa Claus was nothing more than Vanilli, it was silly...”) riding on booming bass swells. Finally, the inclusion of Goodie Mob veteran Cee-Lo on “Reset” shows far more design than most of the posse collaborations on Speakerboxxx (the Jigga-enhanced “Flip Flop Rock,” being a polished exception...
...Clinton that public opinion would inevitably revolt against any nation-building effort—or any war at all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering the USS Harlan County’s retreat from a thuggish mob in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; it paralyzed him into inaction on the Rwandan genocide; it muddled his response to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; it influenced his appeasement of the murderous Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone; and it dissuaded him from pursuing a “boots on the ground?...