Word: accepts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suggested that the government was too weak to control its own security apparatus. In India, the state has an army; in Pakistan, the army has a state. An attempt this summer to place the ISI under the Interior Ministry had to be rescinded when the army refused to accept the order. And when, in the wake of the Mumbai bombings, Zardari acceded to the request of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to send the head of the ISI to India to assist Indian authorities in their investigation, the Pakistani military again forced the civilian government into a humiliating climb down...
...Even if I hadn’t won the scholarship, the application process was really helpful.” The four winners marks an upsurge in scholarships over the past few years A fifth Harvard student won a Marhsall Scholarship but turned it down, instead opting to accept a Rhodes Scholarship. The Marshall Scholarship was founded in 1953 and was named in honor of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who was the father of the Marshall plan that granted aid to post-war Europe...
...That’s fine from my perspective. Everybody loves an underdog, and if you’re going to accept the absurd premise that either Harvard or Yale could be one, it might as well be your team...
...City of Boston, and that can proudly serve as a model for joint decision-making and collaborative development—is a challenge worthy of Harvard. To shirk from this opportunity, to leave buildings hollow and the planning process insular, would be a failure that you should not accept...
...Afghan border, clashes on Sunday between rival political groups in the southern metropolis of Karachi killed 13 people and wounded 70. The country is on the verge of economic collapse, its desperate pleas for financial assistance from China and Saudi Arabia last month having been rebuffed, forcing Pakistan to accept loans from the International Monetary Fund - but those loans come with stern conditions limiting government spending, the implementation of which will risk inflaming further unrest. A suspected U.S. predator drone attack in the tribal areas on Saturday - one of dozens in recent months - has further alienated a population already suspicious...