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terrorism

noun as in lawlessness

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noun as in reign of terror

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A more immediate result could be a defense cooperation agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that would boost weapons sales, intelligence sharing and strategic planning on joint threats including terrorism and Iran.

Marinello said that could change if countries stiffened the penalties for stealing cultural heritage by calling it cultural terrorism.

It has a troubling record of supporting illegal nuclear proliferation, and its hands are far from clean when it comes to supporting terrorism.

A man who shot and seriously injured the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in an attack last year has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after being found guilty of terrorism.

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Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said the latest ceasefire meant "terrorism from Afghanistan on Pakistan's soil will be stopped immediately", with the two sides set to meet in Istanbul for further talks next week.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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