Word: repellent
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...letter applies its moral guidelines to very specific elements of U.S. policy. Tactical nuclear weapons based in Western Europe to repel a Soviet conventional attack present "an unacceptable moral risk" because it is unlikely that any battlefield nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...
...souls bared are badly damaged. Every one of the album's 10 cuts is chilling: two characters face electrocution for murders; there are two other shootings; another character seeks to elude a state trooper; four of his men are out of work. But the songs engross rather than repel because of their sincerity and severity...
...Sidra is Libyan territorial waters [a claim the U.S. and most other countries do not accept] , so it was the U.S., not our side, that used force there. We would rather negotiate with America, but we find ourselves compelled to use force. And we will use it again to repel aggression by our enemies, even if that leads to mass martyrdom on the part of our people. We're willing to turn the Gulf of Sidra into a red gulf, a gulf of blood, if that is the only choice we have...
Ever since NATO was founded in 1949, the U.S. has held open the "first-use" option of employing nuclear weapons to repel a conventional Soviet attack in Europe, because the Warsaw Pact countries enjoy a considerable advantage over the West in total numbers of ground troops and tanks. Indeed, jittery Western Europeans urged the Truman Administration to adopt the first-use policy, and it has lasted for more than three decades with the full agreement of the alliance...
...form of a staunch refusal to apologize, perhaps born of a desire to cultivate a tough-guy image. Usually, Reagan emboldens his notions with an appeal to morality; it is right to spend injudiciously on defense while slashing entitlements; it is right to cut taxes; it is right to repel the pervasive Soviet/Marxist threat. Any apology reveals itself to Reagan as a sign of weakness...