Word: smothered
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...Global Gag Rule also puts the U.S. in the intolerable position of undercutting democracy abroad. How would we feel if other nations sought to set the terms of our national abortion dialogue? America purports to champion democracy around the world, and yet we smother the speech of NGOs, restricting free and open discourse in foreign nations. Consider this double standard: If the Global Gag Rule were applied domestically—to restrict the participation of American NGOs in our national abortion debate as a condition of their receiving federal aid—it would be struck down as patently unconstitutional...
...Knights were able to score two goals before the second quarter, however. Klochkov fired a shot that was too hard for Burmeister to handle, and the ball sailed off his hands and into the goal. Later, when Burmeister took a few strides out of the goal to smother the ball, Klochkov lobbed it over his head and into the open...
...they certainly aren’t as effective in that regard, so the burden will be on the Harvard secondary to smother the Husky receivers if the front seven succeeds in blocking off the backfield...
...during a May meeting with France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who ordered his staff to determine whether additional measures should be taken to reassure the American riders. "I am convinced that it will be the same as last year," Leblanc predicted. "There'll be no particular reason to smother Mr. Armstrong with protection." During last year's Tour, observers detected a warming trend in Franco-Lancian relations. Armstrong conducted more interviews in French, hired less-menacing bodyguards and signed plenty of autographs. Aside from the group of drunks who yelled "Dopé!" during his ascent of Mount Ventoux...
...prosperous Japan welcoming the world to the first Olympics in Asia. Buruma's point, made in a wistful epilogue, is that the country has been run the same way by the same people since the 1950s, when conservatives grabbed power with a "monomaniacal concentration on economic growth" intended to smother public debate on constitutional reform and foreign policy. But the implosion of the world's second-largest economy has now damaged that system beyond repair, and Buruma warns that despair and cynicism could again nudge the country in dangerous directions. Until Japan confronts its past, in other words, we shouldn...