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The insurgency has, four years later, proven "unquellable," and our leaders both feet on the ground (in Iraq) and way off the ground (in Washington) are now, I would imagine, scrambling to change objectives again.
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Levine: Objectiveless War -- "The insurgency has, four years later, proven "unquellable," and our leaders both feet on the ground (in Iraq) and way off the ground (in Washington) are now, I would imagine, scrambling to change objectives again.
Speedlinking 3/2/07 William Harryman 2007
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A sudden crash, slight enough to be unnoticed by hundreds, a convulsive shudder of the great ship like the death struggle of a Titan, had been followed by unquellable panic, confusion of darkness, inadequate boats and jamming bulkheads.
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The camera's and Cartier-Bresson's contribution to the "modern" may consist in having sparked an unquellable desire in us spectators of pictures and of life to descry historic portents in whatever we happen to witness.
SFGate: Top News Stories Chron kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker 2010
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