Word: co-opt
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...like Ralph Reed, they have become a mainstream constituency," said Democratic consultant Mark McKinnon, who is based in Austin, Texas. "I have been advising my clients that we get ourselves in a lot of trouble by attacking the religious right. Instead of inciting them, we ought to try to co-opt them. We need to show we have a backbone of morality in this party...
Unless the President succeeds in his attempt to co-opt parts of the Republican agenda, he will be left with merely peace and prosperity. The first seems almost irrelevant. Foreign policy probably won't be high on the electorate's radar unless something catastrophic happens, in which case the G.O.P. is likely to benefit more than Clinton. As an issue, the economy is harder to read. The performance numbers will probably roar along, but stagnating incomes will probably continue as well. If so, voters may turn against Clinton because, as he said in 1992, Americans are still "working harder...
Will Senator Mitchell be able to break out of his political mindset and co-opt the intellectual apparatus of a judge? I imagine he probably will, if for no other reason than that he is a former judge himself, with a reputation for even-handedness and ethical stature...
Somebody like Genet, I feel, is basically irrecuperable; you can't co-opt, you can't normalize, recuperate him. There's this biography and he exists in Gallimard's Ouvre Complete, all that stuff, but the truth is that people in the provinces still don't buy Genet, he'll never be taught in schools. Bourgeois women, who are most readers, can't read him or don't want to. I think it's really always going to remain like that. There's no way he's going to ever really fit in. I don't think my works...
...inexorably into the embrace of Islamic fundamentalism. Central Asia has been an arena for clashing values, an ancient land swept successively by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tatars, Russians and finally communist bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left a yawning political and spiritual vacuum. Since most of the region's Muslims have predominantly Turkic ethnic roots, the tug is between two versions of the Islamic state: the secular, Westernized Turkey and the radical, anti-Western Iran...