Word: short-circuited
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...Justices supported the man, William Osborne, but the court's majority said the decision whether to provide access to DNA tests is an issue for legislatures, not courts; 46 states and the Federal Government already mandate at least some access to DNA testing. "To suddenly constitutionalize this area would short-circuit what looks to be a prompt and considered legislative response," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts...
...long as the plane or its black box are not recovered, it will be impossible to know what caused the disappearance of Air France Flight 447, says Gourguechon. "As frustrating as it is, we'll need more information before we can imagine any scenarios." But for Learmount, if a short-circuit fire is to blame, one thing is for sure. "We have to look here for the lessons we got from that [Swissair flight]," he says. "Airplanes should have heat and smoke detectors all over them ... so that if a fire started anywhere, you would know immediately." He adds, "That...
...Jess soon learns that he has stumbled into a sisterhood of modern mystical sorceresses who, page by page, short-circuit every last one of his ingrained, materialist expectations about the universe and his true place in it. Mysterious potions are drunk, lingering glances exchanged, and the mundane world falls away to reveal a visionary landscape of miracles, marvels and fulfilled hearts - one that, Jess discovers, had been there all along, just waiting for him to stumble on it. "We didn't lead you into an illusion," Dolly explains to Jess as he struggles to find his bearings in this dizzying...
...likely to have been the most sensitive topic. Several weeks ago, it was reported that some senior European leaders were unhappy with Obama's proposal for the U.S. to talk directly with high-level Iranians. The fear on this side of the Atlantic is that such a move would short-circuit the three-year-old European-led effort to persuade the Iranians to give up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for political and economic benefits. More recently, however, there have been signals from some Europeans that they are satisfied that Obama would not begin any negotiations that would undercut...
...this mess could have been averted. The AKP could have nominated someone else for President, such as the innocuous Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, whom secularists view with less trepidation than Gul. The military could have stayed out of politics. And the secularist opposition could have refrained from trying to short-circuit the democratic process with the help of a dubious, last-minute legal gambit...