I don't see that that's a "scorched-earth" policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Battle for the White House Continues in Florida - November 12, 2000] Reference
Right now they seem to have a scorched-earth tempreament. From Wordnik.com. [CT-SEN: Lieb Clearly Enabling GOP Now] Reference
So is Cox the innocent victim of scorched-earth lawyering?. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Your Right To Sue?] Reference
BAKER: Let me suggest to you that that is not "scorched-earth.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Battle for the White House Continues in Florida - November 12, 2000] Reference
ZAHN: First of all, let's talk about that scorched-earth policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2002] Reference
Ryan said he didn't want to take part in a "scorched-earth campaign.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2004] Reference
This scorched-earth policy is disgusting and fatal to the party's chances in November. From Wordnik.com. [Rasmussen: McCain Edging Both Dems In New Jersey] Reference
Fittingly, those same scorched-earth tactics are now creating headaches for Republicans. From Wordnik.com. [We Say We Want A Revolution] Reference
Gingrich's scorched-earth tactics have infected the Senate, and not just on health care. From Wordnik.com. [You Ain’t No Friend of Mine] Reference
Over the past 10 years, Russia's military has had a scorched-earth strategy toward Chechnya. From Wordnik.com. [Suicide Bombers Can Be Stopped] Reference
But I agree with you, I think this is -- both sides are committed to a scorched-earth policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: The Florida Recount: Election 2000 Heads to Florida Supreme Court - November 19, 2000] Reference
In two decades of Fall War, Smith's scorched-earth policy can seldom have been so vigorously applied. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - was expecting a free tea kettle from Granada TV. It did not materialise.] Reference
ACOSTA: Obama is coming off a tough week of absorbing another round of McCain's scorched-earth TV ads. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2008] Reference
Get ready for a scorched-earth campaign from the Bushies, beginning with tonight's debate in St. Louis. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Scorched-Earth Strategy] Reference
If she decides on a scorched-earth policy and fights through the convention, moviegoers will love the film. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 9, 2008] Reference
How ridiculous that this scorched-earth strategy sounds perfectly reasonable to HRC's clamoring chorus of toadies. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary's Long-Shot Strategy -- Get Super-Dels To See Obama As "Paper Tiger"] Reference
And some Republicans have been voicing concerns that this sort of scorched-earth policy may come back and bite him. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008] Reference
ROBERTS: It was but the problem is, do they want to fight that battle, because it could be a scorched-earth policy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 31, 2008] Reference
Since Law has zero legal leverage, he has adopted a scorched-earth policy in the hopes of talking his way out of town. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Confessions of a Sports Columnist] Reference
AMANPOUR: Along the road, evidence of the scorched-earth campaign that the Congolese army mounted to crush the insurgency. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2009] Reference
In history, men and women of rare qualities make a mark that the scorched-earth policies of an evil system can never erase. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF NOKUKHANYA LUTHULI] Reference
Both these guys have people around them who know how to do a scorched-earth campaign, and I think it's going to be wild and woolly. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Super Tuesday: California Beauty Contest the Final Question as Bush, Gore Win Big - March 8, 2000] Reference
The question is whether this approach can sustain the presidency itself, especially against the Republicans 'scorched-earth tactics. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophical President] Reference
It used janjaweed -- or horse-riding militias -- to carry out scorched-earth operations against civilian population centers in Darfur. From Wordnik.com. [Georgetown & Duke Students Team Up for Darfur] Reference
Well, if you're talking about running the kind of ugly, scorched-earth campaign that Clinton has, then yes: I guess Obama IS an amateur. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Spokesperson Describes Obama Campaign As "Amateur Hour"] Reference
Gore and Daley were bothered by a New York Times editorial taking both sides to task for contemplating a "scorched-earth legal strategy.". From Wordnik.com. [What A Long, Strange Trip] Reference
Kendall's firm, Williams & Connolly, is known for its scorched-earth defense of corporate executives and public officials accused of crimes. From Wordnik.com. [Lewinsky Vs. Clinton] Reference
A known moderate, Pasha spent the past three years leading scorched-earth offensives against extremists as head of the Army's military-ops command. From Wordnik.com. [Spy In The Spotlight] Reference
When Moscow's scorched-earth policy destroyed most of the valley's crops and livestock, Massoud led an effort to rebuild food stocks and the local government. From Wordnik.com. [A Showdown In The Capital] Reference
A very private man in a public business, Dean seems to chafe -- as any mortal would -- at the scorched-earth disclosure requirements of presidential politics. From Wordnik.com. [The Dean Dilemma] Reference
Cabinet members are bombarding the Oval Office with "scorched-earth memos" about the devastating impact of the '95 caps, says a senior administration official. From Wordnik.com. [The Shoe's On The Other Foot] Reference
The problem had been one of management: Bush's handlers had too easily yielded control of the podium and the platform to the scorched-earth ideologues of the right. From Wordnik.com. [Rocky Road To Houston] Reference
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS always disavowed the Doomsday scenario -- a scorched-earth response to impeachment proceedings that would expose adulterers among Bill Clinton's critics. From Wordnik.com. [People In Glass Houses . . .] Reference
By the mid-1980s, McMahon's scorched-earth tactics had winnowed the field of big-time wresting promoters to the WWF and a limping circuit called the National Wrestling Alliance. From Wordnik.com. [Why America's Hooked On Wrestling] Reference
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