Word: redound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHETHER OR NOT the student demonstrations are indirectly connected with the reform leaders in some fashion, the conduct of the demonstrations will be a factor in politics. If order is maintained and no violence occurs, the demonstrations may redound to the support of "democratic" reforms, however they may be defined. If on the other hand violence does occur, a life is lost and that Chinese bugaboo "chaos" is threatened, then the demonstrators may not have helped their cause. Obviously there is a great opportunity for dirty work...
Suddenly there was a prospect of dramatic political unrest and repression in the former U.S. colony, which might ultimately pose a threat to the two important U.S. military bases on the islands, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. The growing confrontation promised to redound to the benefit of the increasingly powerful Communist New People's Army, whose insurgency will soon, in the Pentagon's view, pose a real military challenge to the Marcos regime...
...himself of the impeachment process, but there were reasons for that beyond the shrill quality of public discourse that made a fair trial moot. Not all of those reasons, which included an unselfish belief that the country would be sundered politically, economically and emotionally by a protracted impeachment process, redound to Nixon's discredit...