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In its editorial Sunday headlined "The rout of the Starr judges," Le Monde of Paris called Clinton's victory in the Senate impeachment trial "the first serious setback for the crusade led by the neo-conservatives since the beginning of the 1980s to dictate the morality and sexuality of Americans."
The most recent poll suggested that the anti-poker forces would win in a rout: More than 60 percent of voters favored banning poker, and only 16 percent wanted to keep it.
We must, I believe, strive to rout out these corrupting influences on literary art; to debourgeoisify writing.
Bob Torricelli, D-N.J., the Democrats' Senate campaign chairman, warned on Meet the Press , "they're going to take a sizable Hillary lead and make it into a rout."
The isolated starling fearsthe crows, the crows gang upto rout a hawk.