Word: thwart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chances of learning more about their views on the issues are remote. A presidential-election campaign is a retreat from specifics, a time of calculated vagueness to thwart adversaries until after the vote...
...pill can thwart attacks...
...rural areas where the K.B.L. is strongest, it inevitably aroused suspicions that the government was rectifying its losses by shamelessly altering the returns. Whatever the final tally, Filipinos may now at last have some kind of check on Marcos' one-man, one-party rule. "Despite determined attempts to thwart the popular will," declared NAMFREL Chairman Jose Concepcion, "the Filipino people have proved that democracy is still alive in this country...
...dogma of "offense-dominated" deterrence is that there is nothing more provocative and destabilizing than a strategic defense. The more one superpower tries to protect itself against attack, the more the other side will try to improve its offensive weapons to be sure it can overwhelm and thwart those defenses. Thus a defensive arms race will exacerbate and accelerate the offensive one, with the advantage always remaining with the offense...
...this dilemma was compounded by the establishment's successful attempt to thwart the empowerment of the poor...