Word: uproots
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...accused the Syrian regime of trying to intimidate Lebanese from supporting the court and said that the pursuit of justice entailed risks, including "instability in the country... planting bombs here and there." But Siniora says that his government is determined to push forward with the tribunal as well as uproot the Islamist faction with alleged Syrian links at the center of the Tripoli fighting to prove Lebanon's independence. "Otherwise," he said, "everybody can dare to slap us on the face." The message "to all criminals or those who are against the state," he added, would be "that they...
...also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come in all the wrong places and dissipate all too quickly.Mailer’s narrator, who at first claims to be an SS agent but quickly reveals himself to be a mid-level demon (literally), promises to “uproot many a conventional belief.” The first such belief, it seems, is that a novel about Hitler should be engrossing and disturbing, viscerally appealing, and morally horrifying from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with his narrator focusing on such...
...wish of many Charlesview residents to remain here. At a recent community meeting, one board member even had the nerve to point forcefully toward the heavens as his reason for pushing ahead with their actions, as though they had God’s mandate to sell out and uproot the existing residents in favor of other housing elsewhere...
...completely unrelated [to AAA]” in their office. The box, containing frames and other belongings, is most likely the property of the Kuumba Singers, another student group allocated space in Hilles. Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, an instrumental figure in the large-scale uproot to Hilles, said that no other groups reported items missing as a result of the cross-campus move. The student groups did not have any involvement with the transportation of their items. “Nothing was in our control,” said Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA treasurer Eloy Villanueva...
...when national conflicts are solved in negotiations, those deemed terrorists eventually end up at that table-Israel will find Hamas a far tougher, but also far more credible interlocutor than Arafat ever was. Just as the hard-liner Sharon was widely held to be the best Israeli leader to uproot settlements-not unlike Nixon going to China-so may Hamas well turn out to be the best bet for enforcing a truce. Its ascendancy may finally produce the accountable, transparent government willing to rein in militias that Washington for so long demanded of Yasser Arafat...