slake, roll back, roll your eyes. A.T.F. Braces for a Likely Rollback of Its Gun-Control Efforts

A.T.F. Braces for a Likely Rollback of Its Gun-Control Efforts

President-elect Trump is almost certain to choose a gun-rights advocate as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The Los Angeles Times leads with a judge ordering California officials to comply with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order that state employees take two days off a month without pay. The move would represent "the biggest rollback of the state payroll in decades."


Obama Starts Reversing Bush Policies
President Obama moved swiftly yesterday to begin rolling back eight years of his predecessor's policies, ordering tough new ethics rules and preparing to issue an order closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been at the center of the debate over the treatment of U.S. pr...
(By Michael D. Shear, The Washington Post)

There have been no statewide opinion polls published on the bailout request, though with Michigan’s economy so tied to the industry, those for it undoubtedly outweigh those against, political, economic and polling experts suggest. Still, “there are plenty of people who are rolling their eyes,” said Bill Ballenger, editor of the closely followed newsletter Inside Michigan Politics.

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" ... ban mind from the mental sciences. Nor were John Stuart Mill's principles of induction meant to quell all forms of intellectual curiosity save those which could be slaked by the controlled experiment. This book is written against the background of psychology today, with its confusions ... "

slake Show phonetics
verb [T] LITERARY
to satisfy a thirst or a desire:
After our long game of tennis, we slaked our thirst with a beer.
I don't think Dick will ever manage to slake his lust for power.

roll your eyes
to move your eyes upwards as a way of showing that you are annoyed or bored after someone has done or said something

roll sth back phrasal verb [M]
to reduce the cost or price of something:
The furniture dealer is rolling back the prices on all beds for this week only.

Military Dictionary: roll back

(DOD) The process of progressive destruction and/or neutralization of the opposing defenses, starting at the periphery and working inward, to permit deeper penetration of succeeding defense positions.