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Tinanam0102 Posted 16 years ago
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Less restrained / take-that-Uncle-Sam
Hi teachers,
A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President.
"Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained. Writing in The Washington Post, he thundered, "That picture - a defiant, triumphant, take-that-Uncle-Sam - is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy.
1. Does "less restrained" mean "out of control"?
2. What does "take-that-Uncle-Sam" mean?
Thank you.
Tinanam
A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President.
"Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained. Writing in The Washington Post, he thundered, "That picture - a defiant, triumphant, take-that-Uncle-Sam - is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy.
1. Does "less restrained" mean "out of control"?
2. What does "take-that-Uncle-Sam" mean?
Thank you.
Tinanam
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Hi, A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President. "Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained .
- Hi, A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President.
- "Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal.
- The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained .
- Writing in The Washington Post, he thundered, "That picture - a defiant, triumphant, take-that-Uncle-Sam - is a crushing verdict on the Obama foreign policy.
- 1.
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Hi,
A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President.
"Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained. Writing in The Washington Post, he thundered, "That picture - a defiant, triumphant, take-that-Uncle-Sam - is
A snapshot featuring Turkey's PM and Brazil's President embracing Iran's President.
"Full credit forthis debacle goes to the Obama administrations," declared The wall Street Journal. The conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer was less restrained. Writing in The Washington Post, he thundered, "That picture - a defiant, triumphant, take-that-Uncle-Sam - is
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