Word: emboldening
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...wrong." Lonsdale believes his ideas could have implications for human medicine: if this diet can reverse illness in animals, he says, "we should be finding out what the factors are" and seeing if they can be applied to people. No one expects the A.V.A. expulsion to do anything but embolden him. "He's on a crusade," says Sydney University's Malik, "which will end when he dies...
...Ghraib, the battle for hearts and minds had probably been lost. All this has severely weakened Blair. Some would say it is already too late for him to step away from Bush. But he still believes that the position in Iraq is retrievable, that to break with Bush would embolden the enemies of the West. And he is probably correct that neither his reputation nor his effectiveness would benefit if he issued public demands to an ally that really does listen to his private entreaties - and sometimes acts on them. With the cumulative failures of American strategy, British influence over...
...Cochran edged into confrontational statements rather than simple questions during Garvey’s cross-examination, he met with a sternly-administered rebuke from Crier—an admonition which seemed to embolden Garvey...
Iraqi political leaders warn that Bremer's plan may embolden America's enemies even more--by marginalizing the country's most organized pro-Western forces and fueling suspicions that the U.S. plans to rule Iraq indefinitely. "If people feel that the U.S. is determined to go its own way, with no Iraqi partner who has a say, they will show less cooperation with the Americans," says Hoshyar Zebari, a senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. "This plays into the hands of the extremists." But U.S. officials say they never intended to hand power over to these former opposition parties...
...they may refuse to cooperate with the council. "We wish them the best of luck," says Nabil al-Moussawi, a chief aide to I.N.C. leader Ahmed Chalabi. "But at this point my advice would be that we not be involved." Iraqi political leaders warn that Bremer's plan may embolden America's enemies even more - by marginalizing the country's most organized pro-Western forces and fueling suspicions that the U.S. plans to rule Iraq indefinitely. "If people feel that the U.S. is determined to go its own way, with no Iraqi partner who has a say, they will show...