Word: overwhelm
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...NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today,plan to overwhelm the mountain enclave and then march on Gorazde, the final "safe area" in eastern Bosnia...
...idea, says Carlin Meyer, a professor at New York Law School whose Georgetown essay takes a far less apocalyptic view than MacKinnon's. She argues that if you don't like the images of sex the pornographers offer, the appropriate response is not to suppress them but to overwhelm them with healthier, more realistic ones. Sex on the Internet, she maintains, might actually be good for young people. "[Cyberspace] is a safe space in which to explore the forbidden and the taboo," she writes. "It offers the possibility for genuine, unembarrassed conversations about accurate as well as fantasy images...
...your velvet-covered pangolin that few readers will be distracted by the loose grammar and exotic similes. Conroy will simply overwhelm them with his leapfrogging plots and romantic scenery: a movie-set Rome, a travel-book Venice and the postcard-pretty South Carolina coast. Too tame? Then just wait for the women who set fire to abusive men, the attack of the giant manta ray, and the general's daughter and the private who are blown up by a war protester's bomb while making love in a parked...
...alone won't stop crime, but it is an important step in the right direction," Pataki said. Cuomo, now practicing law in Manhattan, told the Associated Press that he hopes the courts will find the law unconstitutional. "It's from fear, anger, shortsightedness and some cynicism coming together to overwhelm intelligence," Cuomo said of the measure...
...Murray-Herrnstein tract is simply the credo of white supremacy dressed up in raggedy pseudo-scientific garb. The book--and the reception it has received in so-called respectable circles--is a clear manifestation of the continuing power of racism and of the evil virus's continuing effort to overwhelm white America's psychic struggle to live up to its proclaimed allegiance to humanism and opportunity for all. Lee A. Daniels Fellow, W.E.B. DubBois Institute for Afro-American Research Preceptor, Expository Writing Program