Word: resister
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peace. Rwanda and Uganda have pulled back troops; Zimbabwe and Angola are beginning to do the same. By last week, the U.N. had deployed 828 observers and troops and, says Squadron Leader Paul Beard of Britain, "there's a bit of momentum building up that is getting difficult to resist...
...number one rule, explained leaders of the protest, was don't touch anyone. If police tried to remove them, they planned to resist until they were put under arrest. Lawyers from the National Lawyer Guild were standing by if police made arrests, and protestors carried lists of professors ready to post bail if necessary...
...Wall to Wall Coverage TREND. We laid down bear skin rugs in our residences, offices and customized vans for two reasons: one, the rugs look hot, and two, we know prospective partners can't resist the erotic pull and sensuous feel of genuine bear. Alas, the rugs may have worked a little too well, leaving our premises too funky after bacchanalian nights spent on the skin. Now LINOLEUM RUGS offer a wipeable alternative that is as aesthetically pleasing and frankly sexual as its endangered counterpart. Created by L.A. painter Christopher Stearns, the linoleum rugs come in a variety of grid...
...could resist the lure of an insider’s look at the Supreme Court, written by the Chief Justice himself? Especially when, in the preface, William H. Rehnquist states that he is writing for “the interested, informed non-lawyer,” and wishes to “leave the reader feeling that he knows considerably more about the Supreme Court when he puts the book down than he did when he picked it up”? In the aptly titled The Supreme Court, Rehnquist succeeds in doing exactly that, throwing in anecdotes, trivia...
...Besides the reduction in the quotas - which E.U. trade commissioner Pascal Lamy couldn't resist characterizing as a "slightly smaller amount" - it's not clear what Bush's man on the scene, new U.S. trade representative Robert Zoellick, obtained in exchange for lifting the tariff. But just as there was a bigger picture (Taiwan, trade) to U.S.-China relations than one errant spy plane, there's a bigger picture to Europe-U.S. relations than bananas. Like Bush pulling out of Kyoto. Or insisting on a missile-defense shield. Or reassessing U.S. European troop balance in the Balkans...