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- verb Present participle of
destabilize .
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Examples
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The G-8 meeting also discussed North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which they described as destabilizing for the region, and urged the Asian country to return to the six-party talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program "without precondition."
Bloomberg 2010
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Associate history professor Jamie Warner lectured on "culture jamming," which she defined as destabilizing dominant media messages from within.
The Parthenon 2008
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If anyone at VOA promotes or attempts to promote genocide or "wantonly engages in destabilizing propaganda," not only will such persons surely find themselves walking the streets without a job, they are guaranteed to do some serious jail time.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Let Ethiopians Hear America's Voice Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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If anyone at VOA promotes or attempts to promote genocide or "wantonly engages in destabilizing propaganda," not only will such persons surely find themselves walking the streets without a job, they are guaranteed to do some serious jail time.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Let Ethiopians Hear America's Voice Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.
Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010
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Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.
Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010
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It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.
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Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.
Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010
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Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.
Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010
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Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.
Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010
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