Word: wielding
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...current budgetary brinkmanship between the White House and Capitol Hill, is the degree to which candidates of all ilks are distancing themselves from President Bush’s policies. The President has made clear his aversion for timetables for withdrawal from Iraq. But even if he continues to wield his veto and Congress lacks the votes to override him, he must realize, from the tenor of the current campaigns and debate in Congress, that it’s high time to scale back the number of American troops in the region. Even if he is averse to withdrawal on Congress?...
...credence. We do not think this too much to ask. Undergraduates are an integral part of Harvard’s community with a completely different perspective from most administrators. As such, students should be able to present their needs, preferences, and interests by serving on the bureaucratic committees that wield so much power over their daily lives. As is often the case at Harvard, faculty and administrators on panels such as the Standing Committee on the Undergraduate Experience and the Committee on Social Clubs make decisions on student life without any student representation whatsoever. And when there is student representation...
...battle has moved to the presidency. In Turkey, the President possesses little legislative or executive power, other than wielding a veto. But the office carries huge symbolic importance, especially for the Turkish military, since one of the President's titles-albeit a ceremonial one-is commander-in-chief. The incumbent President, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, is a staunch secularist who was only too willing to wield his veto power to quash legislation and appointments he deemed too Islamist. As the ruling party, the AKP had a constitutional right to appoint one of its own to replace Sezer, and Erdogan came close...
Oliver Stone will shoot an antiwar commercial for MoveOn.org Show-biz site HOLLYWOOD TODAY intones, "In a time where politics, media and democracy are inseparably intertwined, Stone, who has both the Hollywood and military credentials, can wield as much influence as elected statesmen." SCORE...
...pump with a clean conscience. More SUVs mean not only more floods and hurricanes, but terrorists as well. Neo-conservatives wring their hands in dismay, as the oil-rich regimes of Sudan and Iran have proved resilient to American pressures. Oh, how much bigger a stick we could wield if only America could rid itself of “dependence on foreign...