Word: mounted
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...more likely to meet opposition this year than last year," he says, arguing that students who oppose a term bill increase might mount a more organized campaign this year...
...into a right to keep the world's peace. The United States, like all other countries, has opinions and alliances that it values. No one can, or should, ask the US to forsake these. For example, Madeline Albright's statements that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount "may" have caused some "tension" while stone-throwing Palestinians are "laying siege to Israel" prove an alliance that cannot be disguised by the farcical and hypocritical insistence that the US is an "honest broker." The United States has allegiances and is therefore not impartial. It cannot keep the world...
...Crimson, who had been unable to mount any sustained attack since the opening minutes, never seriously threatened the Lions' lead. Harvard did manage to earn a corner in the game's final seconds, but the kick was shanked...
When Sharon went to the Temple Mount to say "It's ours"--in-your-face confirmation that the Palestinians would never get a deal on Jerusalem that they could accept--it was pure provocation. Palestinians would inevitably express their anger. The Chairman was apparently ready to seize on it too. As a Tanzim chief tells it, Barghouti had visited Arafat in his Ramallah office the day before. "What do you think of Sharon's visit?" Barghouti asked. Arafat allegedly responded, "I want to light a fire, and I want it to burn the Israelis...
...Nobel Peace Prize, and his unlikely partner in the north, Kim Jong Il. And the unholy struggle in the Middle East looked, for a few moments at least, as if it was being narrowed mainly to semantic nuances about control and sovereignty over a mere 35-acre mount of land in Jerusalem...