Word: ousting
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...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...
...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...
...rifts within Solidarity, the loose alliance of workers and intellectuals that last year brought four decades of Communist rule to an end. Parliamentary elections slated for early next year may formalize the movement's breakup, which began earlier this year when Walesa made clear his intention to oust General Wojciech Jaruzelski from the presidency...
...election would be complete without at least one surprise winner who zooms in from left field to capture high office. This time that distinction belongs to Paul Wellstone, a political-science professor from Carleton College, who last week became the only challenger to oust an incumbent Senator. His victim, Republican Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota, had seemed assured of a third term. "They just outhustled us," Boschwitz said by way of concession...