Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more abstract, but nonetheless emotionally powerful argument against NPT for the now and future advanced nations is that they surrender part of their sovereignty if they pledge themselves to abstain from developing the only weapons that confer big-league status. Also, Europeans in particular question America's willingness to expose its own cities to nuclear retaliation by launching ICBMs against the Soviet Union if the Russians should attack Western Europe...
...remain open to radical new approaches and ideas on contemporary ethical issues. Although the final motion did not specify the issues, earlier drafts had cited premarital sex, homosexuality, abortion and mercy killing. "When the situation is not right to render judgment," said the Dutch assembly, "the ecclesiastical authorities should abstain from giving definitive directives and, whenever possible, should leave room for experiment. In these cases, taking risks is justifiable and even necessary if the church is to remain faithful, in multiformity, to her essence, being the people of God on the march...
...most West Germans were born after 1933. Though they bear no guilt for the past, they show grave concern over the profound moral issues raised by the manufacture of weapons and their use in the world. Generally, they have concluded that where moral doubt exists, it is better to abstain from profit. Young Germans are among the world's least militaristic people - perhaps because they have been profoundly influenced by the example of the past. So too, in part, have the postwar managers of the Krupp works who have consistently refused to produce cannon. The final irony: two months...
...press, revoked the right of assembly and association, abolished the small non-Communist political groupings that had grown up during Czechoslovakia's springtime of freedom, and reaffirmed the total and irrevocable supremacy of the Communist Party. By afternoon, it was all over. Only two Deputies had dared abstain on the press bill. Otherwise, the votes were all unanimous. In that manner, the captives forged their own chains...
...chancellor. At his behest, trustees of the university met last week, voted to investigate whether the 18 C.U. theologians who signed the anti-encyclical statement "have violated their responsibilities to the university." The dissenting faculty members may continue teaching, the trustees decreed, as long as they "agree to abstain for the period of the inquiry from any activities which are inconsistent with the pronouncements of the ordinary teaching authority established in the church-above all, that of the Holy Father." Teachers "unprepared to accept these conditions" will, in effect, be placed on suspension during the inquiry...