From Madeleine K. Albright, "The End of Intervention," International Herald Tribune, June 11, 2008.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/11/opinion/edalbright.php
* dissent: (n) strong difference of opinion on a particular subject; disagreement, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a popular belief.
"The first and most obvious reality is the survival of totalitarian government in an age of global communications and democratic progress. Myanmar's military junta employs the same set of tools used by the likes of Stalin to crush dissent and monitor the lives of citizens."
* famine: (n) when there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death, or a particular period when this happen.
* halt: (v) to (cause to ) stop moving or doing something or happening.
"During the 1990s, certain precedents were created. The administration of George H.W. Bush intervened to prevent famine in Somalia and to aid Kurds in northern Iraq; the Clinton administration returned an elected leader to power in Haiti; NATO ended the war in Bosnia and stopped Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of terror in Kosovo; the British halted a civil war in Sierra Leone; and the United Nations authorized life-saving missions in East Timor and elsewhere."
* repercussion: (n) the effect that an action, event or decision has on something, especially a bad effect.
"Thus, Myanmar's leaders have been shielded from the repercussions of their outrageous actions. Sudan has been able to dictate the terms of multinational operations inside Darfur. The government of Zimbabwe may yet succeed in stealing a presidential election."
* back off: (phrasal verb) to stop being involved in a situation, usually in oder to allow other people deal with it themselves.
"Political leaders in Pakistan have told the Bush administration to back off, despite the growth of Al Qaeda and Taliban cells in the country's wild northwest."
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