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Saddam is toppled
bundle, hustle, trundle, topple People are always bundled
into police cars (especially after they’ve been hustled out of
meetings). They may then be thrown into cellars. Tanks trundle into cities. And dictators are always toppled.
foment uprisings, disturbances, riots are always fomented
urge restraint is always “urged”
More political language at Euphemisms.
painstaking Research is nearly always painstaking.
Seven months of painstaking research followed. Observer Magazine Nov 29
2009 After years of painstaking research,
French historians say they have solved one of the country's most
enduring mysteries. Guardian Dec 8 2008 "It has taken years of painstaking research
to prove this," said Dr Okasha El Daly. Guardian Oct 3 2004 The power behind the throne at Toto, which has carved out a
niche as the last word in designer lavatories, has devoted his life to the
improvement of the toilet experience, says Leo Lewis in The Times (May 2010).
“Over years of painstaking research Toto has compiled the biggest and most
sophisticated database of human toilet behaviour in the world,” says Harimoto.
Just
occasionally it's intense – Jonathan Safran Foer's latest book
took "three years of intense research". It took 20 years of painstaking research to turn this simple idea into a reality. (BBC news on test tube babies, October 4, 2010) The video is the result of "years of painstaking work and research" dcist.com
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