Because they cannot compete with his intellectual energy, and cannot effectively counter restraints on government that reflect the will of the majority, House Democrats are waging a guerrilla campaign to discredit and besmear the speaker.
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While oral argument takes place in court Monday, across the street the Congress is embroiled in the ethics of using illegal eavesdropping to besmear the defense against charges of ethical violations by the speaker of the House.
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Serra inferred that Perote had taken part in an " attempt to besmear " the country's democratic institutions by making copies of the recordings before they were destroyed and taking them out of Cesid.
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This Vodou ceremony was a ceremonial impulsion to the liberation of thousands of abjectly enslaved peoples under French, mostly Christian, tyranny : and as such has been perverted over the following decades to besmear a righteous liberty-struggle as formed of wicked means.
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Hillary Clinton, as a favor to Hollywood friends, told her staff to get rid of the people who ran the White House travel office; to justify the spoils system, the FBI and Justice Department were used to besmear and harass the innocent targets.
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Yes; as a result of the white light of publicity focused on the travel office scandal, the FBI director made clear that never again will the federal police power be used in this way by the White House to target and publicly besmear politically unwanted workers.
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One of the earliest references to a Kplika is found in Hla's Prakrit poem, the " Gthsapta [ ati " ( third to fifth century A . D . ) in a verse in which the poet describes a young female Kplik who besmears herself with ashes from the funeral pyre of her lover.
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Trent Lott, doomed from the delayed start of the firestorm, failed to see how his paean at Strom Thurmond's centennial, in Nixon's rueful post-Watergate phrase, " gave'em a sword " _ provided Democrats with the means to besmear the current GOP with the pitch of the past.
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Negative advertising, we are told _ people are turned off by the shiv-slipping TV spots that besmear both sides, or by pabulum positions taken by candidates afraid to take stands that might alienate a noisy segment of the spectrum, or by the seeming sameness immortalized by the slogan " not a dime's worth of difference ."
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Madly in love with Vera, the hapless hatchet man further reveals what his partner _ who is secretly handling a " Flings " campaign to besmear Max's NightmareWorks _ has discovered : that Mileva Einstein, subject of " Beautiful Body, " was in reality plain and dumpy, and never thought her husband's relativity theory was so special.