Word: prop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shot. But a series of attacks before the Americans carry out their planned withdrawal will be used in al-Qaeda propaganda to claim a victory. Also, the American withdrawal may have given al-Qaeda the scent of blood. The U.S. troop presence had, at least symbolically, been a major prop of support for the Saudi regime. Al-Qaeda may believe that the U.S. withdrawal signifies a weakening of the Saudi regime, prompting them to strike out against...
Longo, a center on the team, and Boutwell, a prop, were apparently drinking at the home of another team member in the town’s upscale Mead Point neighborhood, police said...
...meantime, Little finds plenty of work to fill her 12-plus-hour days in the prop room, where she paints sets and cuts foam...
...terror. The tyranny of Castro’s regime is reprehensible; but its complicity in terrorism is simply unacceptable. Bush should seize this moment to marry America’s moral imperative in Cuba with its strategic one. Now is not the time to ease sanctions and prop up a desperate government; now is the time for increased pressure. A carrot-and-stick policy is fine—so long as the stick is real and unequivocal...
Opening new talks also provides an avenue for improving regional security and reshaping the flawed 1994 Agreed Framework, which most commentators consider equivalent to international blackmail. South Korea and China are unlikely to discontinue aid provisions (official and unofficial) that prop up the faltering North Korean economy, since they both hope to avoid an influx of refugees from a collapsed neighboring regime. Because of this support, their influence on Kim is strong, but they will need to forcefully assert their opposition to his nuclear program and advocate its immediate and unequivocal dismantling with extensive verification by international inspectors...