Word: vanquish
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...Asquith had told King Edward, and he now plainly told King George, that the House of Lords must be vanquished and that, short of revolution, only the King could vanquish them by creating, or threatening to create, enough new peers -possibly 500-to form a majority of Their Lordships who would vote to subordinate the House of Lords forever to the House of Commons...
...decades, the best treatment for malaria was an inexpensive medication called chloroquine, first discovered in Germany in 1934 by a researcher working for Bayer. Chloroquine was so effective that it seemed it might vanquish malaria forever. But by the 1970s, the drug had been used so widely to treat all kinds of fevers, not just those caused by malaria, that the malaria parasites became resistant and doctors had to turn to a second medication, called sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SP. But within five years, the parasites started to develop resistance to SP as well. Today resistance to both drugs is rampant...
Your investigation delineated the hideous, Taliban-like attitudes of the insurgents based on the outskirts of Fallujah. Those terrorists must be defeated. They unsettle the serenity of the people of Iraq in particular and global peace in general. Iraqis should cooperate with U.S. forces to vanquish fanatic terrorist groups, because they are stumbling blocks to peace. A. VINOO FABIAN Bangalore, India...
...later, the power of that day has, if anything, grown, the mythology swollen in movies and memory. We got to embrace an image of our place in the world and its wars that has shaped every fight that followed. The Americans are the ones who ride to the rescue, vanquish the enemy, get hailed as liberators, set everything right and then come home having left a place better than we found it. The facts are never that clean, but the expectation has its own power, and every President who sent soldiers abroad has followed a similar script. Ronald Reagan invoked...
...coast, and when I got there, I saw an armada like a plague of locusts. The number of ships was uncountable, and the Allies' superior firepower was obvious. But in war, what you lose first is reason. I wanted to attack. I wanted to vanquish them...