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...Commission to serve as a bulwark against the power of the big boys. But Giscard was having none of that, either. His plans would reduce the Commission's importance by putting what many hope will be the E.U.'s most significant activity - foreign and security policy - firmly in the ambit of the European Council. Many fear that the Commission, which considers itself the protector of E.U. treaties, would be transformed into a mere administrator of social and economic matters. And under a revamped voting formula in the Council of Ministers, where national representatives meet to agree on common E.U. policies...
...June 1992 allowing the SDF to participate in U.N. peacekeeping operations. Since then, Japan's soldiers have crept slowly yet more confidently onto the global stage from Bosnia to Rwanda, with world events providing ample justification for the country's legislators to broaden the SDF's ambit...
...Gore could have four more debates. I worry about Brokaw. I wished, on the contrary, that the candidates could follow Wiesel's formula - that in some redeeming, parallel world, they could sit down together and set their minds to the intelligent, disinterested exploration of some matter outside the ambit of their disfiguring and depthless political ambitions...
Gorton points out that health and education fall outside the ambit of his subcommittee. Yet lapses in policing, child welfare and sanitation will have an indirect impact on health. And many tribes spend the discretionary funds he is imperiling on health and schooling. "Tribes are in desperate need of resources for educating children, for protecting abused and neglected children, for combating alcoholism and drug abuse, for fighting crime, for building roads and water and sewer systems," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, as he argued to reinstate Indian funding earlier this month. "And we, the Federal Government, have...
...that name. Despite her demanding and abrasive personality, Irene assumes a semi-divine status, the image of the perfection to those surrounding her: on the other hand, leads a temporary and contingent existence. She will retain her somewhat exalted only so long as she remains within the ambit of Irene. Likewise, her love affairs, if they could be so called, are brief, occuring between the end-points of a voyage; one takes place in the corridor of a train, and the other in the hold of a boat...