sponsor

[victor steinbok]

Why "intangibly"? Don't we have "state sponsors of terrorism"? Why not
broaden to "sponsors of war"?

VS-)

On 7/22/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> App. it means "contribute intangibly to, as by providing impetus,
> justification, etc. ":
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> 2010 Mary A. Favret _War at a Distance_ (Princeton: P.U.P.) 232: ...the
> attacks of Sepetember 11, 2001. Striving to find an adequate response to
> that violence and the wars it sponsored, Butler arrives at the thought that
> her response must initiate [etc.]....
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> The author is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University.
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