Word: re-establish
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Even if Pol Pot's candidates get only 20% of the vote, it would be enough to re-establish them as a legitimate political force, able to disrupt the government from within. The Prince may have come home, but jasmine petals cannot quite hide the smell of dangers ahead...
...street crowds and threatened to kill Aristide, a 38-year-old priest, Venezuela's President Carlos Andres Perez sent a plane to fly him to safety. Perez offered Aristide refuge in Caracas and said his country would be ready to take part in "the severest of actions" to re-establish a legitimate government in Haiti...
...three days last week, the answer seemed to be no. By the beginning of this year, it was clear that if Gorbachev's policies continued, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would eventually leave the U.S.S.R. and re-establish their independence. Gorbachev repeatedly said he accepted "in principle" the Baltics' right to independence. He was always quick to add his insistence that the leaders in those republics pursue their goal by "constitutional means." Everyone knew what that phrase meant: a slow process during which the central government would try to control both the throttle and the brake...
...fact, according to a senior Administration official, the announcement was a diplomatic charade: Shamir had agreed to attend the peace conference before Baker left Moscow. The Israeli leader's acquiescence was prompted in part by a Soviet promise to re-establish diplomatic relations, which were severed in 1967, if the talks get under way. Baker also assured him that the U.S. would not insist that Palestinians unacceptable to Shamir be included in the discussions...
...roommates helped me re-establish my confidence in myself that I was questioning," Barringer says. "And Robin took me on as her chore. She is my hero...