Word: embolden
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...This year Nissan crammed a 287-h.p. engine into its 350Z and outfitted it with luxuries like heated seats and a premium audio system. BMW's new Z4 is loaded with power and gadgetry and features a body crafted to evoke a flame, part of BMW's bid to embolden its designs...
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher repeated Powell's public assertion that he has no intention of leaving. "He serves at the pleasure of the President," Boucher said. A Powell exit could cause political problems for the Republicans. The loss of his moderating voice would embolden the hard-liners and hurt the party's efforts to broaden its base. And those who dream of a Powell presidential candidacy in 2008 have little cause for hope. Powell, the aide says, will "never run for President." --By Massimo Calabresi
...terrorism is not warfare in the conventional sense, where the 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...
...should send Arafat away, out of the country," Sharon said. "We should not let him stay." But the heads of Israel's intelligence and security agencies all argued that releasing Arafat from the four-month confinement in Ramallah that Israel has imposed on him and pushing him abroad would embolden him to collude openly with terrorist groups and organize strikes against Israel. Cabinet ministers told TIME that at 5:30 a.m. Friday, Sharon settled on a different strategy: Israel would officially identify Arafat as an enemy, "isolate" him in his Ramallah headquarters, destroy the surrounding buildings and arrest or kill...
...Taliban and al-Qaeda elements that have regrouped in eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan want to use the casualties inflicted on the U.S. at Shahi Kot to embolden anti-American forces throughout the region. Even before this week's clashes, British peacekeepers had been fired on three times in Kabul, while U.S. forces had come under attack more than once in both Kandahar and Khost. Despite the setbacks at Shahi Kot, however, the U.S. still holds the initiative there, and defeat of Mansoor's troops will presumably be a setback for anti-U.S. forces. Still, there are emerging signs...