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  • proper noun Abbreviated name for the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab nationalist political party present in several countries in the Mid-East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.

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Examples

  • He shot one back, but mockingly, elbowing his buddy, who flashed the hand gesture that Najeef had described as the Baath party gang sign.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • To de-Baath or not to de-Baath, that is the question

    Archive 2008-01-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

  • They are citing a statement from the party Hussein used to control, known as the Baath party.

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005 2005

  • But the Arabs who, as you said, Lou, who were silent for three decades under the Baath are the ones who are nailing us with Abu Ghraib.

    CNN Transcript May 12, 2004 2004

  • Ahmed, a Hama resident, said he saw up to 12 people shot dead in the streets in a district known as the Baath neighbourhood.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • Ahmed, the Hama resident, said he saw up to 12 people shot dead in the streets in a district known as the Baath neighborhood.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • I think we should also be glad that its private ownership of Iraq's armed forces, and its control over a party monopoly called the Baath, has been irrecoverably smashed.

    Lincoln vs Cadillac 2008

  • One protester waved an American flag with the word "Baath" in Arabic replacing the stars, an indication of the fiercely anti-American oratory that Mr. Maliki and his supporters have used since the crisis began last month.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • The conclusion of Dr. Jaber's article, from my understanding, was about uprooting or not uprooting Baathism, or let us say getting through Iraq's crisis today, even though he did not use the term 'Baath' at all in his article.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • President Bashar al-Assad's Baath Party has ruled the county under emergency laws since the 1950s.

    Syrian police kill 3 in anti-regime protests 2011

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