Word: prompted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been the Democrats' favorite co-sponsor on everything from a patient's bill of rights to gun control. TED KENNEDY and JOHN EDWARDS like him so much that they have been urging the maverick to switch sides. Though McCain has declined, he thought about it long enough to prompt a dinner invitation from the President last week. The shift in power only enhances his stature. "This move makes John McCain the de facto Republican leader in the Senate," says a top Republican operative...
...question is now whether the Ashcroft Justice Department would try to take the case to the Supreme Court or simply let it drop. Also at issue is whether Ashcroft's letter, which was read aloud by an NRA official at the group's convention in Kansas City, will prompt gun-rights groups to begin an onslaught of lawsuits challenging restrictions on firearms ownership...
...missile shield would almost certainly prompt Beijing to accelerate efforts to expand and modernize its own nuclear fleet, in order to retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react...
...think she can do it politically. It would prompt a huge uproar, and the military may not support her. But that would leave her going into an election campaign in the worst possible circumstances, which is why some are saying it was such a colossal blunder. But you have to understand that she had 70,000 of the poorest of the poor in the Philippines clamoring at the gates of the palace, and that?s a scary situation. Even those sections of the military opposed to Arroyo didn't properly gauge the extent of support for arrested former president Estrada...
...violence. After all, it will be a conclave of leaders who suspect Arafat of wanting to find a face-saving way to end the intifadeh by pushing Sharon into an attack--which in turn would claim a large number of Palestinian lives and thus prompt international intervention to separate the two sides, something Israel opposes. But even if Hizballah and Hamas don't bury the hatchet, their knives are still out for Israel...