Word: temperal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...What can the U.S. do to win back the support of Pakistanis? To temper down, to moderate the Indian attitude toward Pakistan on the issue of the dispute of Kashmir. And also to bring balance. Pakistan had been the strategic partner; India was in the other camp in the cold war. Now all of a sudden India is the strategic partner, and there is a feeling that after the cold war Pakistan was ditched. This has to be rectified...
...administration, where he will oversee a cabinet drawn from the outgoing government, rebel groups and opposition parties. Fully elected leaders will take over by January 2006. With armed youths still on the streets, the arrival of an advanced team from Ghana last week did little to temper calls for more peacekeepers. Around 1,000 troops, mostly Nigerians, have been deployed by ECOWAS, the union of West African states. With just 200 U.S. soldiers supporting ECOWAS from a force of 2,300 offshore, additional forces from South Africa, Senegal and Mali - and some $55 million in E.U. aid - are eagerly awaited...
...opening statement yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney S. Theodore Merritt ’74 sought to paint Byrne as a “bully with a badge,” arguing that the officer had lost his temper several times with Trombly and friends that weekend...
...second concerned an alleged screaming outburst directed by Byrne at a man, Michael Tiberio, walking down Tremont Street in June 1998. Stearns ruled that this incident was irrelevant to the case involving Trombly because it “establishes no more than that the defendant has a bad temper, which he has displayed in the past.” Stearns said this constituted an impermissible attempt to use past evidence of bad character in order to prove later accusations...
...little more than a month ago, insiders were saying the Dean movement had all the resonance of a temper tantrum. Even activist Democrats, the line went, would eventually come to their senses and realize that this antiwar one-noter from liberal Vermont was out of synch with the politics of a post-9/11 world. And what about the Internet-driven rabble that packs his events, those 68,000 who have signed up for yet another of Dean's "Meetup" events at 340 spots across the country this Wednesday? Too young, too alienated, too inchoate to matter...