Word: quash
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...regrouped in the mountainous region along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The area, often described as lawless, has long been controlled by fiercely conservative tribes that run their own semi-autonomous administration. Over the past few years foreign and local militants have grown stronger. Last year, after failing to quash the insurgency militarily, the Pakistani army signed a brief cease-fire deal with some of the militant groups. The fighting has since resumed. U.S. intelligence agencies believe al-Qaeda has now rebuilt to the point where it could launch fresh attacks against America...
CONTEXT As its army moved this fall to quash monks' peaceful protests, the violent crackdown made international headlines that, depending on the publication, identified the country as Burma, Myanmar or both...
...parliament votes for a President on October 6, and the increasingly embattled Musharraf desperately needs the support of Bhutto's party. She, in turn, wants the corruption charges - which she dismisses as baseless and politically motivated - dropped before her return. On Tuesday, government officials agreed "in principle" to quash all the cases, although the terms and conditions of such an amnesty are not clear...
...companies, Sylvia Siegel, an outspoken, acerbic mother of two, taught herself the arcane details of utility law, launched a network to represent consumers before the California Public Utilities Commission and became the most visible and powerful utility consumer advocate in the country. Her expertise and occasional name-calling helped quash a plan to impose a "customer charge" even if no electricity was used during a given month, helped expose $345 million in overcharges by Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric, and was instrumental in creating affordable "lifeline" rates for low-income customers...
...political hay, it’s understandable that one would recoil at policies meant to subdue difference. What would become of the United States, after all, if the apparatus of the state, controlled by the “Christian right,” were endowed with the power to quash any form of religious expression? In conventional American wisdom, the road to theocracy is paved with good intentions, and the universalism that defines the French republican ethos seems more than a little totalitarian. In fact, it’s more or less just Gallic stubbornness; the French believe that...