Word: quashing
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Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
...same time, Conant said he feared that the congressional investigation of faculty members would create an oppressive atmosphere at the University that would quash its academic freedom...
...writing The West Wing next season--is to halt a vote by hightailing it out of town and then evading the cops looking to drag you back. It's always a ratings grabber, like when some Republicans in the U.S. Senate locked themselves in their offices to quash a vote on a campaign-finance-reform bill in 1988, causing a sergeant at arms to carry Bob Packwood feetfirst to the Senate floor (after determining that Lowell Weicker was too heavy). The stunt pulled by Democrats in the Texas legislature last week was to avoid a vote on redistricting the state...
...Islamic community should work to quash fallacious perceptions of Muslims by campaigning specifically against such vilification, he said...
...urging students not to tear down posters, the council advised the administration to increase its drive to uphold “a community ideally characterized by free expression,” a notion codified in its own Handbook for Students. When a person does tear down a poster or quash a recognized student group’s freedom of expression, the University should not hesitate to send the case to the Administrative Board. Realistically, few vandals will be apprehended, making the need for a sufficiently harsh punishment all the more legitimate. More severe punishments will make clear that the University...