Word: entrench
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...Taliban and Saddam Hussein created new spheres of Iranian influence, in fact a whole new regional dynamic that has neatly granted Iran a short-cut to great power status it could not have dreamed of otherwise. The system establishment views its nuclear program as a way to entrench those ambitions, and ensure its own survival...
...will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its potency wanes. The elections in Iraq and Afghanistan were only possible because of American intervention, but the Administration's suspicion of international law and multilateral institutions mean that the democratic changes could be difficult to entrench...
...world's worst rate. And ordinary Swazis are increasingly fed up with Mswati's gold-plated insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says Jan Sithole, secretary-general of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (S.F.T.U). While S.F.T.U members marched last month to protest a proposed new constitution that would entrench the powers of the monarchy, Mswati was busy tooling around in his new $500,000 Maybach 62, complete with dvd player, surround-sound speakers, refrigerator and bar. Although the King appears impervious to pressure from his people, he has bowed to their demands in the past. In 2002, Mswati decided...
...vote was a test of support for Saudi liberals who have long been overwhelmed by conservatives loosely allied with the ruling Al Saud dynasty. A conundrum in President Bush's State of the Union call for democracy in Saudi Arabia, al Ammari says, is the risk that elections could entrench religious conservatives, not liberal reformers, in elected office. ?They will make the country more conservative, while we want it to open up,? says Al Ammari. ?We have to open our minds and be part of the world...
...despair among these advocates. But you would be wrong. Within minutes after losing the Senate vote, they were preparing to introduce a similar measure into the House, knowing full well that there is no hope of passage. But success at this juncture is not important. In fact, failure helps entrench the sense of alienation and anger that is already being stoked for political ends. The members of the religious right have therefore achieved what they set out to achieve. They have used this issue to galvanize parts of the evangelical base, just as President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove...