Word: emboldens
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...said they will do if a compromise cannot be reached. The real danger is that other countries may also break rank. The more porous the ban, the more the opportunities for illegal trading. Already South Africa and Botswana are on the smugglers' routes. An ambiguous result in Lausanne could embolden the trade and undermine enforcement efforts in Africa. Time is not on the elephant's side. If the slaughter continues at the rate of the past decade, 1,000 elephants will be killed during the week of the debate...
...tainted tests may not be introduced to show that a bloodstain found on Castro's watch came from the victim, though other acceptable DNA tests by Lifecodes may be used to show that the blood does not belong to Castro. Beyond this immediate case, the ruling is expected to embolden many of the hundreds of defendants fingered by DNA tests around the country to challenge the procedures used to identify them...
...failure of the general strike seemed to embolden the army-dominated government. Since the election cancellation, the junta has paraded a stream of Duvalierists before television cameras to denounce the electoral council and American interference. More to the point, the government-owned TV station has repeatedly flashed a message across the screen: I WILL ONLY SURRENDER THIS TOWN WHEN IT IS REDUCED TO ASHES, AND WHEN IT IS REDUCED TO ASHES, I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT. The quote is well known, the pledge of an early 19th century Haitian revolutionary leader to fight French colonists. But most Haitians understood...
...students unless they are buttressed by the force of personal example. If you would know virtue, Plato tells us, observe the virtuous man. For more than a quarter of a century, Ted Hesburgh has given to us all the example of a virtuous man. May his success embolden more of us to follow his lead...
...assert such marked differences on questions of historical fact. It's as if one were from Venus and one were from Mars. On Lebanon, Mondale's version was that the causes were mistaken U.S. policy, the procedures amounted to presidential bungling, and the effect was to embolden the terrorists. Reagan answered that the causes were mainly Lebanese, there was no lapse in procedures, and the effect has been to heighten security. Arms control, or lack thereof, the Administration attributed to Soviet intransigence and to lack of American strength. Mondale attributed it to the present Administration's lack...