Word: modus
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...object is to project power in order to destroy an enemy's military capability. Terrorism is more in the nature of violence-as-propaganda, using spectacular attacks to terrorize an enemy's support base as well as to embolden and inspire the terrorists' own supporters. Al-Qaeda's modus operandi over the past four years has been to conduct one or two spectacular attacks a year (which may require them to attempt a few more, on the assumption that some will be foiled). Theirs is a war of messages in which mass murder is the ultimate propaganda tool - the message...
After all, the EU’s “long-term goal is to bring all the democracies of Europe together.” This goal cannot dwarf the EU’s foremost concern: to maintain shared security. Given this modus operandi, it seems implausible to expect that the EU will take in Serbia and Montenegro...
...unless the world's leading economy plays a larger role in redressing the global balance of prosperity, there will be fertile breeding ground aplenty for terrorists. And being the lone superpower will not buy security. "Let them hate so long as they fear" is not a viable modus operandi in a world in which the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction is no great challenge. As the events of Sept. 11 showed, U.S. invincibility should not be confused with U.S. invulnerability...
...criticism of Summers has focused more on his modus operandi than his rapidly developing curriculum vitae as President...
...between them. In 1996, Hamas unleashed a wave of deadly bombings that killed 60 Israelis in eight days, prompting Arafat to clamp down heavily - some 1,000 Palestinians were arrested and the PA even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi. While Hamas won't abandon terrorist actions against Israel, it has periodically agreed, for example, to refrain from sending suicide bombers into Israel for defined periods. While it refuses to accept the PA as an authority, it does accept Arafat's right to represent the Palestinian people internationally...