Defeat
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It means engaging in costly behavior that is sufficiently extreme that a conventional politician would never want to emulate it, yet not so extreme that it would turn the reformer into a populist and
defeat
the purpose.
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The
defeat
of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is perhaps the most recent example of this, but we have seen similar so-called military solutions in the Balkans, in the South Caucasus and across most of Africa.
I want to repeat that part: The Lakota
defeat
the US army.
And they were not able to
defeat
all social injustice.
But let's face it, when you've watched it once maybe, or twice, you don't really want to watch it again, because you know how Jack Bauer is going to
defeat
the terrorists.
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