Word: sways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-occupation demonstration on campus, he should know that the majority of participants were non-Arab, and in fact, included several Israelis. In light of this, I cannot help but ask myself if the decision to use "Arab" in the title was not racially motivated: an attempt to sway readers by focusing on the most stereotyped ethnic group in American today...
...other crimes leveled against him, he was ordered to pay $200 million in fines and $400 million in restitution. Scores of Milken's friends -- and a smattering of his foes -- have deluged New York Federal District Court Judge Kimba Wood with more than 200 letters that aim to sway her decision about his prison term. While such lobbying is common in white-collar proceedings, Milken's case has attracted letters from a dazzling potpourri of the rich and famous...
...strengthened his claim to the position he has long coveted: overlord of the Arab world. And he made the entire world quake, weak-kneed, at his raw power. Not since the brilliant military leader Nebuchadnezzar ruled the Babylonian Empire more than two millenniums ago had Baghdad exercised such sway...
...group matches the I.R.A. in its ability to sustain a campaign of deadly violence. Although the level of I.R.A. attacks today is only 20% of that of the 1970s, some 200 to 300 I.R.A. Provisionals are still striking at targets in Ulster, Britain and beyond in an effort to sway public opinion. Backed by 2,000 supporters who furnish hideouts and surveillance, the Provisionals are using a wide variety of weapons -- automatic rifles, pistols, letter bombs and mortars, as well as the terrorist's special, the Czechoslovak-made plastic explosive Semtex...
Washington's refusal to deal with Hanoi since 1975, when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the Saigon embassy, was designed to isolate the country when it was bent on expanding its sway over its Southeast Asian neighbors. But when Vietnam withdrew the bulk of its army of occupation from Cambodia last September, it removed the last major barrier to recognition. As Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who was once national coordinator of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, noted last week, "A month after Tiananmen Square, we talked to the leaders of China; we talked to Pinochet...