Word: halting
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...best, only keep peace, who is to make peace? Who is to stop the fighting, halt the aggression? The answer is simple: the world's one great power -- the United States -- joined by whatever friends choose to help...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...
...influences that shape our weather are man-made. Experts say it could be 20 or 30 years before they know for certain what effect the buildup of greenhouse gases, the destruction of ancient forests or the depletion of the ozone layer have had. Policymakers looking for excuses not to halt those trends will always be able to point to scientific uncertainty. As Schneider puts it, "We're insulting the system at a faster rate than we can understand." The risk is that by the time we understand what is happening to the weather, it may be too late...
...hell of it." While comparisons to the international disbelief, blindness and indifference that enabled Hitler to carry out his "final solution" are overblown, Baker hinted at such a parallel on May 24 at an international conference in Lisbon. It was just bracing enough to renew Western determination to halt the slaughter...
...Indeed, many are concerned that environmental problems are so large that they soon may pass a point where anything significant can be done. Of all problems none is more irreversible than the extinction problem; every time a , species is lost unnecessarily, a 3.5 billion-year lineage comes to a halt...