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• n  the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)
  Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons
• v  tear down so as to make flat with the ground
• v  take apart into its constituent pieces
• v  take off or remove

• Would dismantling the Fed prevent financial crises? Nope .
• And that was followed by perestroika and the Gorbachev reforms, which led eventually to the dismantling of the Soviet empire, and the disappearance of the Soviet regime.
• Why, in a Tuesday op-ed piece in the Miami Herald, would he challenge the Cuban-American elders and call for dismantling President Bush's hefty restrictions on Cuban-Americans .

• dismantlement
• disassembly
• level
• raze
• rase
• dismantle
• tear down
• take down
• pull down
• disassemble
• take apart
• break up
• break apart
• strip

• assembly
• raise
• assemble

News & Articles

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• FBI director warns against dismantling surveillance program
  WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned Wednesday that dismantling the National Security Agency's once-secret program that is keeping records of billions of domestic phone calls by Americans would slow down investigators as they seek to stop terrorist attacks.
  June 20, 2013 - Tampa Bay Times
• FBI chief warns against dismantling surveillance
  WASHINGTON - Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned Wednesday that dismantling the National Security Agency's once-secret program that is keeping records of billions of domestic phone calls by Americans would slow down investigators as they seek to stop terrorist attacks.
  June 20, 2013 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
• Fire at Fort Washington business blocks traffic in office park
  A fire that sparked during the dismantling of a printing press closed off traffic through the Fort Washington Office Park for nearly two hours Monday morning.
  June 20, 2013 - The Ambler Gazette

Quotes

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• Mitch McConnell in New York Times
  We've fought on behalf of the American people this week - and we'll continue to fight until this bill is repealed and replaced with common-sense ideas that solve our problems without dismantling the health care system we have,said Senator...
• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  North Korea's agreement to these verification measures is a modest step forward in dismantling its nuclear weapons programs,Obama said in a statement. "President Bush's decision to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of...
• Khaled Mashaal in International Herald Tribune
  I swear it's a farce ...... the equation has now become: dismantling the checkpoints, in exchange for (giving up) resistance,Mashaal said. "This has become the Palestinian cause."