Word: overreaching
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...Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination. The punitive expedition proved to be one of antiquity's most dramatic episodes of imperial overreach. One morning, while the army was having breakfast, writes the ancient historian Herodotus in The Histories, it was set upon by "a violent southern wind, bringing with it piles of sand, which buried them." The Greek continues, "Thus it was that they utterly disappeared...
...have to be asking themselves is, How many times is Nancy Pelosi going to make them walk the plank and cast a vote for a fatally flawed bill?" asks Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which helps elect GOP candidates to the House. "This kind of overreach would be a policy disaster for middle-class Americans, but a dream scenario for any Republican opponent...
...take comfort from this apparent disunity. Far-right parties view the European Parliament primarily as a platform from which to launch runs for their domestic legislatures. Their expanding ambitions will bring new pressures: closer attention and the need to recruit more - and more plausible - candidates. They may yet overreach themselves. But hoping that they do is not a policy adequate to the threat they pose. With reporting by Leo Cendrowicz / The Hague, Bruce Crumley / Paris and John Nadler / Budapest...
...asking if they should ease up on their ideological hard line or ramp it up to neutralize opponents before it's too late." In Honduras, a coup on the day of the Argentine vote forced leftist President Manuel Zelaya into exile. Zelaya's foes accuse him of presidential overreach...
...recalls that shortly before the Reagan Revolution, the GOP was in such dire straits, it ran ads declaring that Republicans are people too. "We've lost our way, but we'll find our way back," Cole says. "We'll get back into the idea business, and the Democrats will overreach...