These attacks create effects that discredit the authorities, terrorize the public and harm the tourism based economy.

This is designed to discredit and stigmatize Islam and the Islamic world, and it has nothing to do with the dialogue of civilizations.

All that this accomplishes is to discredit multilateral cooperation on non proliferation and disarmament with serious repercussions for the integrity of this Treaty.

That lack of objectivity brought discredit to the Commission on Human Rights, insulted Israeli victims of terrorism and did disservice to the Palestinian cause.

Unfortunately, China propagandists, who double as censors, have a perverse ability to discredit anything that they try to brand. The China Dream is no exception.

It would discredit all asylum seekers because it would imply that their objective was not to escape persecution but to migrate to a prosperous country.

These statements, which either attack the Palestinian leadership and doubt its intentions or discredit the internationally endorsed road map, spread hopelessness and increase animosity among the Palestinian population.

8.4 Secondly, even if the complainant did establish that he was a fighter pilot and a deserter, his account contains various contradictions and implausibilities that discredit the fears invoked.

Corrections from the elitist mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda. As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum.

In the end, there is much uncertainty about these trade agreements economic and political consequences, and considerable room for concern. Proponents only discredit themselves by deriding the skeptics as protectionists.

Corrections from the elitist mainstream media are dismissed as enemy propaganda. As a blogger sympathetic to Santorum put it The Washington Post, as one would expect, attempted to discredit Santorum.

Most have had the support and blessing of Erdoğan, who has exploited them to discredit the old secular guard and cement his rule. Even more important, the trials have had the strong backing of the Gülen movement.

Thus, there is no excuse for the outrage, the exaggerated claims for one paper s influence, and the attempt to use the error to discredit legitimate concerns over high levels of debt (let alone to vilify the authors).

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

Almost none of the writers had seen the exhibition most had signed form letters. The events around the exhibition discredit the Russian Orthodox Church, just as the fatwah condemning Salman Rushdie to death discredited Islam, said Elena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow.

Bush, alas, led an aggressive effort to discredit climate science rather than to respond to its findings. He called for delays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, which in turn causes the energy of hurricanes to rise.

LONDON I spent the New Year in Sydney, watching the fireworks above the iconic bridge welcome in 2009. The explosions over Gaza that night were not intended to entertain, but rather to break Hamas and discredit it in the eyes of Palestinians.

LONDON I spent the New Year in Sydney, watching the fireworks above the iconic bridge welcome in 2009. The explosions over Gaza that night were not intended to entertain, but rather to break Hamas and discredit it in the eyes of Palestinians.

Indeed, Hamas is convinced that any success for Abbas and the Palestinian Authority will further discredit its rule and increase its isolation in besieged Gaza. Hamas s support for Palestinian statehood within the 1967 borders would convey at least indirect recognition of Israel.

The civil disobedience and public awareness campaigns had gone on, targeting the activities of the colonial administration, which had failed to implement its own decisions and to fulfil its obligations, systematically attempting to discredit and silence the population of Vieques and its organizations.

Most discouragingly, the American assurances will likely discredit Palestinian moderates and the positions they have advocated regarding the need for mutual concessions with Israel. From now on, the Bush statement will strongly affect the framing of the solution to the issues of territory and refugees.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese had entered the middle class. China s model of authoritarian efficiency seemed attractive to many other developing countries, particularly in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, which began in the United States and thus seemed to discredit American style liberal capitalism.

Now, however, the one sidedness of the US approach is likely to discredit possible compromises in the eyes of the public. Radicals will remind Palestinians that these two concessions represent a US Israeli imposition and an attempt to force the Palestinians to bow to the realities of occupation and dispossession.

If we add up these three factors the enormous economic challenge of reducing greenhouse gases, the complexity of climate science, and deliberate campaigns to confuse the public and discredit the science we arrive at the fourth and over arching problem US politicians unwillingness or inability to formulate a sensible climate change policy.

Moreover, Palestinians are not convinced that UN recognition will change their daily lives as long as the international community takes no action to end the Israeli occupation on the West Bank and the siege and blockade of Gaza. However, the Palestinian bid at the UN will internationalize the Palestinian Israeli conflict and discredit US mediating leverage.

More problematic, Israel s actions in Gaza probably increased its vulnerability to terrorist attacks, not only by fueling animosity toward Israel, but also by suggesting that Netanyahu s government will most likely discredit itself with its response. That propensity to act against its own interests to appease an enraged and emotional public was underscored by the recent destruction of al Shaludi s family home.

Thus, liberals belief that they have only to expose the populists corruption to discredit them is a vain hope. They also have to show that for the vast majority of citizens, clientilism yields no benefits, and that a lack of democratic accountability, a dysfunctional bureaucracy, and erosion of the rule of law will in the long run hurt the people all of them.

Merkel must now determine how to forge a compromise that does not discredit the Europe wide democratic process, which currently has more support in Germany than in any other large European country. To this end, support from Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi whose party won 41 of his country s vote, arguably making him the only real winner at the national level could help.

Populist demagogues in politics and the mass media are doing everything they can to discredit the quality press as propaganda organs for left wing elites who sneer at the views of ordinary Americans. Santorum pretends to speak for these people that is, for a minority of Americans who are mostly white, provincial, highly religious, deeply conservative on cultural and social issues, and convinced that Obama and all Europeans are dangerous godless socialists.