Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Aug 3, 2003 03:50
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Arabic term
ورقة تأثير
Arabic to English
Social Sciences
Government / Politics
Political
إن التسليم بهذا الأمر سيعني الاستسلام، فلم يعد بيدنا أي ورقة تأثير داخل البلدة سواها...
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| 5 +6 | card |
Fuad Yahya
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| 5 +1 | Card to play. |
ghassan al-Alem
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| 4 | card to pressure |
Mumtaz
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Dec 11, 2005 07:08: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences"
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card
The word "card" is used figuartively in the follwing sense:
Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play. Example: “[He believed that] Soviet Russia … had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States” (Theodore Draper).
American Heritage Dictionary.
Your sentence would be:
We no longer had any other card to play.
Something, such as an advantageous circumstance or tactical maneuver, that can be used to help gain an objective. Often used with play. Example: “[He believed that] Soviet Russia … had far more Iranian cards to play than the United States” (Theodore Draper).
American Heritage Dictionary.
Your sentence would be:
We no longer had any other card to play.
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Card to play.
The phrase could be translated as follows: Giving in (conceding) this issue will mean surrender. We will not have a card to play whether inside the country or elsewhere.
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card to pressure
ورقة للتأثير أو للضغط
Example: Israel and U.S. use the minority card to pressure Egypt.
Example: Israel and U.S. use the minority card to pressure Egypt.
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