check-mate

Most of what you have been talking about on these posts is a chess game and I can assure you Obama could check-mate McCain in less then 10 moves.

Bayh, Nunn Parry V.P. Queries at Obama Event - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

I was looking forward to a check-mate endorsement from Gore.

Source: Gore Won't Endorse Before Feb. 5th 2009

'Pardon me, ma'am,' said the General, 'he has been at least half an hour contemplating this very move, – for which, as you see, I now check-mate him.

Camilla 2008

The large number of Iranian/Syrian/Hezhollah/Hammas rockets and missiles, capable of delivering radiological, chemical, advanced biological, and fuel-air explosives on Israel and American forces in the Middle East is a check-mate or MAD designed to prevent the next stated goal of the neo-con agenda, the destruction of Iran and Syria, from taking place.

Casus Belli or Casus Pax 2008

What is happening in the Mideast is not a simple isolated political vendetta, it concerns carefully planned military strategies, that were developed by Israel and the USA over decades and which concern oil, gas and water pipe lines, also power struggles to check-mate future competitors, by cutting off their energetic supplies in time ...

OpEdNews - Quicklink: USA war crimes ... why do we allow these vultures to fetch us one by one? 2006

Who will get to check-mate first, and how, is not clear, but one thing is for sure: the stakes are high and the tensions between the neos and Big Oil are actually the primary front on the battlefield.

Review: Armed Madhouse, by Greg Palast 2006

I guess romer got the last laugh while scream check-mate av.

Admiral Is New LAUSD Superintendent 2006

Mr Fourie said Mr de Klerk's intervention had defused the check-mate situation which resulted from the "unilateral" agreement reached between Mr Wessels and Cosatu.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

If there be any real difference, the former is check, and the latter a check-mate, to the movements of the Government of the Union.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Other writers contend that chess is a game of Persian invention, since _scah muth_ is the Persic term for check-mate; and since the Persians were sedulous in recommending it to their young princes, as a game calculated to instruct kings in the art of war.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various