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discourage (User); hurt the chances (Looking back now, aides to all three presidents offer roughly similar takes: Their man was hardly naïve about Mr. Putin and saw him for what he was, but felt there was little choice other than to try to establish a better relationship. It may be that some of their policies hurt the chances of that by fueling Mr. Putin's discontent, whether it was NATO expansion, the Iraq war or the Libya war 4uzhoj); be not conducive (to something: The easiest way to catch individuals engaging in illegal activities is to be among them, and a police uniform is, obviously, not conducive to this. 4uzhoj) |
