Word: narrowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...KARBALA GAP" The most direct route for the 3rd Infantry Division into Baghdad runs through a narrow strip of land, 20 to 25 miles wide, between the Euphrates River and Lake Razzazah. Control of the Gap would give coalition forces a wide range of options in attacking Baghdad, but the area is guarded, for now, by Saddam's Republican Guard...
...Things had seemed to be going well that morning, but Samawah put Talraas on edge. A sniper could easily hide in its narrow alleyways and tall, closely spaced mud-brick buildings. "My nerves were up," says Talraas. "We don't train for that environment, with buildings so close together and that high...
...students at MIT, who are superb, are much more narrow,” Hauser said. “At Harvard, you get a diversity of interests...
...taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia’s accusation is baseless. What Fried proposed the court do—take from the poor to protect an overly-narrow definition of property—would be far worse...
First, stop thinking in outdated terms of national interest and security. This cynical realism is a self-fulfilling nightmare. Ironically, realist thinking endangers our security and eliminates significant economic opportunities. Policies need to be discussed in terms of global interests and values. Narrow patriotism is utterly unconvincing to a global audience...