The damage weakened America's ability to speak for the idea of liberal society while emboldening its true enemies.
The twin goals have been to retain future assets while emboldening the current team's postseason aspirations.
Page B4 ANTIPIRACY BILLS SHELVED Congressional leaders shelved two antipiracy bills, dealing a major defeat to the traditional media industry while emboldening online political activists.
"The situation has created a dynamic in which Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and the PA are losing credibility, while emboldening the image of Hamas.
WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders on Friday indefinitely shelved two antipiracy bills that had rallied the Internet and rocked Capitol Hill, dealing a major defeat to the traditional media industry while emboldening a new breed of online political activists.
Well aware that a perception of disarray in the American and NATO military headquarters in Kabul might worry American troops and allies while emboldening the insurgency, Mr. Gates spoke directly to all of those audiences.
"Our problem with March 14th is not that they are aligned with the U.S., but it is their policies," says Alain Aoun, a nephew of General Aoun, who says American support has magnified tensions while emboldening the ruling majority to resist compromises.
By invading Iraq and failing there, it depleted every variety of American power fighting one enemy that possessed no nuclear weapons, while emboldening a second that was building a store of them, and a third, Iran, that has evidently decided that it must get some, and soon.
The net effect, she worries, is to tick off reasonably compliant folks while emboldening the true tax cheats.
That has the dual effect of blunting your message and blurring your image while emboldening the objects of your favors to demand even more.
