Word: overthrowing
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...after 12 months, 15 months, an embargo will indeed begin to "bite." If applied for long enough, the will of the Iraqis to resist will decline steadily, the chances of Hussein's overthrow will rise and the potential impact of a desperate Iraqi attack anywhere will be less and less. Withdrawal from Kuwait and submission to other terms--e.g. the dismantling of nuclear development projects--should follow with capitulation...
...Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...
...main sources of instability in the new Eastern European democracies, Flanagan said, is that their populations may overthrow governments that take too long to alleviate their persistent social and economic crises...
...though conspiracy theorists cannot agree on who is supposed to be plotting against whom. While most talk is of a coup mounted by military conservatives eager to institute a law-and-order regime, Vladimir Petrunya, a commentator for TASS, has charged that it is reformist radicals who want to overthrow the government. Each side accuses the other of deliberately creating shortages to increase the public anxiety and unrest that would be conducive to a coup...
...wouldn't object to a civil war and the violent overthrow of the apartheid regime (and hey, it may not be such a bad idea), we should press for the total isolation and destruction of the South African economy. But then again, isn't the point of sanctions to resolve conflicts without resorting to military force? If we want a military solution, an outright invasion would doubtless be simpler and more cost-effective than inducing our adversary's citizens to rise up in revolt...