Word: unseat
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...unlikely that China will unseat Tung anytime soon. That would be too radical a move and would be seen as an indirect attack on Jiang, Tung's sponsor. Indeed, the old boys' club that is the core of Hong Kong's government isn't disbanding yet, nor have all its members gone into overdrive to clean up their acts. In the middle of last week's demonstration, pro-Tung legislators leaving the Legco building used a bus to get through the crowds of protesters; news photographers snapped one politician, Philip Wong, flashing his middle finger at the people outside...
...Klein hit the nail right on the head in his analysis of what the DEMOCRATIC Party must do to unseat George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election [NATION, May 19]. Democrats should wake up and stand for something instead of always being against things. Until they do, they will probably continue to lose ground to the Republicans. Think what you will about Bush, you can't say he's afraid to state his beliefs and act on them. MARK RIOUX Saco, Maine...
...after the ground war had begun, while CBS aired NCAA basketball. ABC and Fox, whose regular Thursday programming usually gets trounced, went with the war. Friends won. On cable, CNN--whose Gulf War I glory days are an increasingly misty memory--hoped its breaking-news reputation would help it unseat No. 1 Fox News. That didn't happen...
...order for the Crimson squad to reclaim the title, the swimmers will need to be consistent across the board, but co-captain Dan Shevchik and junior John Cole must dominate their events—as they have historically—or else Harvard will likely not unseat Princeton as champions...
...riding car with a wide space between the tires is hard to unseat...