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  • Bahrain's experiment with limited democracy is often viewed as a barometer of political and sectarian tensions in the wider region, where Sunni regimes fear an expansionistic Iran and the growing clout of Shiites in Middle East affairs.

    Bahrain Accuses Shiite Activists of Terror, Subversion Ahead of Polls 2010

  • This edition of Inside Mitchieville is brought to you by the Friends of the Gun Registry, a government funded lobby group that represents the needs of expansionistic bureaucrats at taxpayers expense.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Far from being a belligerent expansionistic power, the last time Iran attacked a neighbor was in the seventeenth century.

    Philip Giraldi: Truth and Lies in the Middle East 2008

  • Organizations do want to get bigger and stronger and better; the people who run them are ambitious and expansionistic.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Organizations do want to get bigger and stronger and better; the people who run them are ambitious and expansionistic.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • Organizations do want to get bigger and stronger and better; the people who run them are ambitious and expansionistic.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • When one takes a look at the historical spread of Islam, primarily by coercion and conflict, from its inception in the Arabian Peninsula some 1300 years ago to its reach from Spain to the Philippines today, and one discovers that, of the forty-five military conflicts extant in the world today, Muslims are fighting on one or both sides of them all, it would appear that this particular module possesses great expansionistic efficacy.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Bush Agrees Current Iraq Violence May Be ‘Jihadist Equivalent Of The Tet Offensive’ 2006

  • John Bolton, the US "mad-hatter" who now presides over Israel's interests in the UN, ludicrously called the balloting "irrelevant" because it fell short of the expansionistic ambitions of Israel and jeopardized the further colonization of the region by the US.

    The Case for a Nuclear Iran 2005

  • Socialogical expansionistic processes, from the man on the street, to the man in his country?

    Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss Mark 2005

  • I guess, Dr. Kay, your view is that Saddam Hussein, in his own mind, had expansionistic and intentions with regard to the world, and that he felt that the possession or threat of weapons of mass destruction enhanced that ability to be a powerful force in the region?

    CNN Transcript Jan 28, 2004 2004

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