Word: oust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PRESIDENT Bush got what he wanted this weekend--Congressional authorization to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait by military force. Though his margin of victory was anything but decisive (just five votes in the Senate), the President has accomplished his aim of presenting a hard-line "united front" against Saddam Hussein...
...time has come for us all to put ourselves on the line morally. If you favor using war to oust the Iraqis, fine; the nice people at the armed forces recruitment station will be happy to take your enlistment papers. If you're willing to sacrifice someone else's life, you should be willing to make the same sacrifice...
...movement to oust the ex-general began in early October. By late November, strikes and demonstrations had reached such fury that Ershad imposed a state of emergency, a stratagem he had used twice before since his seizure of power...
...appointed to teach theology under church auspices. For good measure, Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a convert from Protestantism, the daughter of a West German President and the wife of a first cousin of Poland's Catholic Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary was not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus...
...many Americans, it sounded as though Bush was planning to lead the U.S. into a war to oust Iraq from the conquered oil sheikdom of Kuwait. Now doubts have begun to arise about whether the nation really supports a move that some Pentagon experts predict would bring an estimated 20,000 U.S. casualties within the first few weeks of fighting...