But does it also enmesh, if not totally muzzle, quite a number of important backbench figures.

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To further such a subordination of American power, the transnationalists have long sought to enmesh the United States in a web of treaties and institutions.

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The chief Asian project will be to enmesh both countries into a broader set of economic and security norms, while ensuring a continued security presence for the United States, still the region's top dog in military terms.

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