Baath

Examples

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• Saddam Hussein was a prominent leader of the Iraqi Baath Party during his dictatorship.

• Six were members of the Syrian Baath Party.

  Academic text (2010)

• Baath Party officials gave talks around the country to justify the government's position.

  Academic text (1991)

• So we were going out, you know, hitting targets and the first big target that we went to hit that I was a point man on was a Baath party member.

  Julian Dorey

• After seizing power in 1968, the Iraqi Baath Party divided Arabs into a progressive camp, naturally led by Iraq, and a reactionary camp led by Saudi Arabia.

  Academic text (1990)

• In October 2007, the Iraqi Baath Party held its 13th conference, in which it formally certified one of Saddam's vice presidents, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, as the supreme leader of the Sunni resistance.

  Blog text (5)

• And when, in March 2001, Baath party members asked Syrian Vice-President Abd Halim Khaddam at a public meeting why the regime did not do more to solve the problems of corruption, incompetence, and the slow pace of reform, his answer was that the Arab-Israeli conflict permitted no changes at home.

  Academic text (2007)

• The university invited a former Baath Party official to discuss the political climate in the region.

Synonyms

B

Baathist

vsBaath

5 8.6

A member or supporter of the Baath political party in countries like Syria and Iraq

has identical meaning but uses a different word form for the same role

Surface Forms

Etymology