Word: second-guessing
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...have a right to voice the needs of my constituents to the administration. They told me they would meet and continue to discuss [extending the ticket deadline]," Coffey said. "None of us want a council plagued by divisions and infighting. Let's not second-guess each other...
Instead, it chose a course of action which the council does not have the constitutional power to pursue. Based solely on anecdotal evidence, it chose to second-guess the intentions of the more than 1,100 students who signed the petition and pick and choose which items to put to a vote. Gabay has asserted that the petition was procedurally incorrect because it did not give students a choice. But neither does the council constitution give it the power of choice over which of the questions can be put to a referendum...
...lost hope. That's it, I thought. Now I'll be forced to hand write the envelope, and I'll never get the job when the addressee, a recruiting manager, sees my scrawl. She won't second-guess how much trouble I went through to get this envelope printed...
Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...
...Congress greets any hint of escalating U.S. involvement in humanitarian intervention with vociferous disapproval. Secretary of Defense Les Aspin has begun to second-guess himself. When Americans began calling on Clinton to bring the boys back home, Aspin decided not to grant his military commander's request for more tanks in Somalia. His decision was not publicized then, but imagine the uproar had he announced that he would send in additional tanks. Ironically, those tanks could have saved the lives of the American soldiers killed by Aidid's men on October...