Word: impel
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Something would be lost even in victory. Approval of the sale would enrage Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and perhaps harden him against further conciliation in the Middle East peace process. Disapproval would humiliate Reagan. In addition, it would likely impel the Saudis to buy comparable Nimrod radar planes from Britain and would weaken U.S. influence with the biggest exporter of oil to the West. Whatever the outcome, the debate has already strained U.S.-Saudi relations and diminished Reagan's standing among American Jews...
...deadliest enemy, however, is his former self. The only credentials he can recover from his past are those of a sadistic executioner in Viet Nam, and he is all but convinced he was that man. It takes the tendresse of Marie and the cunning of Carlos to impel Cain toward his moment of truth, a shattering set piece that takes place on Manhattan's East Side...
...anger caused by the seizure of hostages in Iran, is unmistakably indignant, but it is also puzzled and frustrated. People feel injured in their national pride and yearn for tougher action. But they are not ready for war, and are unable to figure out what nonmilitary actions might impel the Soviets to pull out of Afghanistan or the Iranians to free the hostages. Kenneth Stein, an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Emory University, describes the feeling as "a sense of impotence and frustration...
...disappearing way of life in any case, but now its premature doom appears to be sealed. Last week the Israeli Cabinet proposed a harsh plan that would empower the government to seize 37,500 acres of Bedouin lands, with limited compensation but without right of judicial appeal, and to impel the displaced tribesmen to resettle into new industrial townships. The Bedouins have raised their small minority voice in protest, even vowing that blood will be spilled before the controversy is over, but thus far to no avail. When the Negev Lands Purchase Law receives parliamentary approval in the Knesset, which...
...whatever imagery it carries but-more-by the latent emotions it mobilizes. It plays too on the verities and prejudices of its audience, balming or inflaming them according to purpose. Just so, the slogan lurks as a sort of floating hook in the psyche. Properly tugged, it can impel people to coalesce, to divide, to fight, to sacrifice, to vote...