Word: abandonement
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...Party attracts huge support, that might be viewed by the court as a public vote on the impeachment. The party is riding high in opinion polls, although it was recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where they...
...possible unilateral withdrawal from most of the Gaza Strip. When Israel suddenly withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah had claimed that as a major victory for its two decades of guerrilla warfare. And, Israeli officials believe, that had encouraged Palestinian militants in the same year to abandon the road of diplomacy and renew their "armed struggle" in the hope of driving Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza. By hitting Hamas hard before withdrawing, Israel hopes to send a message that its departure should not be read as a retreat...
However, in a departure from his reputation as a hawkish Cold War hardliner, Brzezinski advocated a vision of a softer, gentler United States that “infuses globalization with humane content.” In Brzezinski’s vision, the United States should abandon its trend toward single-handed action, exemplified by the Iraq conflict...
...unemployment is rising as China's booming economic expansion eats up manufacturing jobs and threatens the South's technological edge. North Korea threatens to test a nuclear weapon on its doorstep; South Korea is a key member of a group of five nations trying to persuade the North to abandon its nukes. Moreover, the impeachment intensifies uncertainty surrounding the April general election seen as crucial to restoring some credibility and stability to the South's government, which has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals. None of this has helped the international standing of South Korea, which suddenly seems...
Brown’s shooters began to cool off slightly, but the Bears didn’t abandon their torrid pace...