At the very least, we could then go back to fighting international terror as more or less a police action.

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French revolutionaries used it first to distinguish the common man from the reviled aristocracy, then to enforce their reign of terror on both.

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If Owen was the spearhead who struck terror into Argentina's defence, then he must share star billing with the man who has been the understudy so often for club and country.

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For critics of John Howard, he became a totem for much of what was wrong with the Bush administration's war on terror, and what they complained was the then prime minister's slavish support for the US president.

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The exposure then of Iran's support for Palestinian Authority-backed terror forces caused the Bush administration to abandon its previous acceptance of Yasser Arafat as a legitimate political leader.

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It took a few seconds for Morini to react, but then he leaped to his feet, let out a cry of terror, and disappeared down a corridor.

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No-one in Paris - or any other Western capital - wants parts of Mali to become like Afghanistan in the 1990s - a place where acts of terror further afield could be planned and where people would then ask why something was not done earlier.

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Then there's Fox Plaza, memorable for its starring role in the 1988 hit terror-in-a-skyscraper film, Die Hard.

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And then he devoted much of the rest of his speech to Iraq and what he calls the war on terror.

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If free soloing (using only rock shoes, without the protection of a rope) is the purest form of climbing, then aid soloing is the slowest, most cumbersome kind one can imagine, mixing, as it does, terror and tedium.

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