Word: emboldening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progovernment commanders, reportedly in a shoot-out. Capping months of wrangling, Tajik sources say, Sangak Safarov and Faizali Saidov went for their guns during an argument over the fate of refugees seeking to return from Afghanistan. Authorities fear the deadly duel could spark reprisals among the chieftains' followers and embolden Islamic and nationalist insurgents to reignite the fighting that has already claimed more than 20,000 lives...
...extremists really prove to be. In the end, the balance of power between the President at one end and the front at the other may be decided by the man in the middle -- Volsky. If neither Yeltsin nor Volsky can achieve some kind of consensus, the Congress could embolden the most radical opponents of reform. Then the fear that dark forces are secretly planning a coup could become a reality...
...possible repercussions of that decision. McGann, a Houston music-store clerk, had his medical insurance suddenly cut from $1 million to $5,000 after his employer learned he had AIDS. An unusual alliance of American Medical Association officials and AIDS activists says the court's inaction may embolden other employers who promise medical benefits to retroactively refuse insurance payouts . McGann did not live to hear the bad news: he died in June...
...YEAR AGO, AS AMERICANS watched the confrontation between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, pundits offered two visions of the future. One camp, using words like crusading, empowering and galvanizing, hailed the sexual-harassment hearings as a nationwide consciousness-raising session. They predicted that Hill's brave performance would both embolden other women to come forward with grievances and promote greater sensitivity in the workplace. The other camp warned that the spectacle of 14 white male Senators grilling a young black woman with sometimes rude, often embarrassing, rarely knowledgeable questions would deter other women from lodging harassment complaints. Pointing to polls...
...only taking a new look at some long-standing contingency plans. They give two principal reasons. Though their analysis is strongly disputed, they believe Saddam's hold on power is weakening; rumors of a new American plot to bring him down just might throw him off balance and embolden his opponents to try something. Such rumors also might encourage some allies who Washington fears might soon be ready to do business with Saddam -- notably Turkey -- to reconsider and hang tough in keeping the Iraqi regime isolated. Says an Administration official: "It's a comedy of errors. Those stories...