Word: supplanting
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...looking as though that prediction might be a little hasty. Rosenberg isn’t trying to retire the Democratic Party and consign it to institutional obsolescence; he’s campaigning to lead the thing. The same goes for MoveOn. They’re not out to supplant the Dems, just to get them to adopt a more grassroots orientation...
...heard reports that the foreigners were carrying guns. Bougainville Assistant Police Commissioner Joseph Bemu accuses Musingku and the foreigners of giving locals false expectations, which may supplant the more realistic hopes offered by reconciliation with their government. "People are expecting riches coming into the place," he says. "It can have a bad impact on the peace process." As required by the Bougainville Peace Agreement, signed in 2001, a constitution for an autonomous Bougainville has been drawn up and is awaiting ratification. "I'm frustrated because we were just getting this communication with Mekamui," says Noruka. "We have gone back...
...mail is convenient and can be an effective way of arranging meetings, but it cannot supplant face-to-face contact between students and staff,” Casey N. Cep, a past and current student of Vendler, wrote in an e-mail. “I have had wonderful interactions with Professor Vendler during her office hours—meetings that were no less enjoyable for having been arranged without e-mail...
...triple terror bombing of Israeli tourists in Egypt overnight Friday may signal the opening of a new front in al-Qaeda's battle to supplant pro-Western regimes in the Arab world. Or rather, the reopening of an old one. It is possible, of course, that the near-simultaneous attacks that killed more than 30 people, most of them Israeli tourists at the Hilton Hotel in Taba, and at the Red Sea resorts of Nuweiba and Ras al-Sultan, could be the work of others. Radical Palestinian groups would certainly make any list of possible suspects, particularly given the target...
...facilitate peace between Israel and the Palestinians - an argument dismissed as spurious by Zinni, Cordesman and others. Instead, the Iraq occupation and the ongoing conflict in the West Bank and Gaza has burnished al-Qaeda's appeal in relation to the pro-U.S. Arab regimes it hopes to supplant, because these regimes appear powerless to affect the plight of the Palestinians and Iraqis. With seemingly no Arab leaders capable of protecting Arab interests, bin Laden paints himself and his politics of suicidal jihad as the path to redeeming Islam's lost honor...