However, Mr Clinton rejected criticism of Nato's air war to drive Yugoslav forces out of predominantly ethnic Albanian Kosovo.

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In 2003, then-French President Jacques Chirac opposed Mr. Bush's drive to war in Iraq, as did Mr. Obama, who at the time was a state senator from Illinois just beginning a long-shot U.S. Senate campaign.

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In years to come, warns veteran oil analyst Matthew Simmons, to keep up supply the world will need to build new rigs at a rate not seen since the "Liberty Ship" drive of World War II.

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Second, we can strengthen legislation against the illegal antiquities trade, which tends to drive much of the looting in war zones.

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The advice that one Internet dating executive offers for the first face-to-face meeting sounds like a cold-war espionage manual: meet in public, drive yourself, let someone know where you will be.

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Arriving at the height of the surge, Mr. Obama was supposed to visit American troops at the Bagram base, an hour's drive north of Kabul, and then to discuss the war over dinner with Mr. Karzai in the presidential palace.

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"We have a responsibility to drive toward a destination that is not conflict, nor is it war, nor is it anything that the government is trying to push, " he said.

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"The inexorable logic of events, " he predicted, would drive Lincoln to make the eradication of slavery the spear point of the war.

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He maintains that there is no such thing as bad publicity and that the fights he picks are all intended to drive home the message that Ryanair's approach to costs is a war that has to be ruthlessly conducted on many fronts.

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The irony is that despite having a war chest of songs, Gordy has co-written (with Michael Lovesmith) four new ones to drive home plot points.

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