Word: stranglehold
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...media, activists, aid workers, foreign governments-to bear witness, the military has been free to launch what many Acehnese feel is the endgame for their people. Part of this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that appears inevitable considering the lack of protest or even debate over their blood-soaked...
...Right now, Israel is the effective security authority in most West Bank towns and cities, having reoccupied them in the hope of stopping a relentless wave of suicide bombings inside Israel-proper. The Palestinians say they can't reconstitute their shattered security services as long as Israeli maintains a stranglehold on their turf, and argue that an Israeli withdrawal is a prerequisite for a crackdown on terrorism. But Sharon is in no mood to accept half-measures, and insists that Israel will deal only with a Palestinian Authority willing to disarm the Palestinian organizations that carry out terror attacks - Hamas...
...ability to ensure Israel's security, and has no interest in discussing Palestinian statehood before that time. But Palestinian leaders say they can't properly reconstitute their security services, let alone enforce an end to attacks on Israelis as long as the Israeli military maintains its security stranglehold on Palestinian territories. That impasse has dashed every U.S.-backed cease-fire effort over the past two-and-a-half years. And it remains an imposing first hurdle on the "roadmap...
...triple by URI junior second baseman Mel Gregory with one out finally broke Harvard’s stranglehold on the Rams and signaled the beginning of a sweeping shift in energy...
...kind of ugly, house-to-house bloodbath the U.S. had feared most, especially in Baghdad. But it happened first in Karbala, which before Baghdad collapsed, loomed as a potential stranglehold on the supply route leading to the capital. History had already stamped Karbala in blood. In 680 A.D., Muhammad's grandson Hussein and a small group of supporters fought to the death here over the right to lead the Muslim faith. Now scouts reported that 500 to 700 Fedayeen Saddam were digging in to make a stand...