Word: amendents
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...drag up slowly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Administration aides hope that the high court would reject the assault. But there is another problem: many of the quick decisions that the board could compel from state and local authorities would be "no." The board would have no power to amend local clean-air and other environmental laws...
THEFT. Male or female, cut off his or her hands: a punishment by way of example, from God, for their crime: and God is Exalted in Power. But if the thief repent after his crime, and amend his conduct, God turneth to him in forgiveness; for God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful...
...member of the Committee on Graduate Education spoke to the Faculty yesterday, supporting the reforms, but asking the Faculty to amend the legislation to include graduate students on the committees...
...Before a crowd estimated at nearly a million, he vowed to "devote the remaining one or two years of my life" to reshaping Iran "in the image of Muhammad." This would be done, he said, by the purge of every vestige of Western culture from the land. "We will amend the newspapers. We will amend the radio, the television, the cinemas," he intoned. "All of these should follow the Islamic pattern...
...this point, most people didn't even know if this conference had been worth it, let alone whether they wanted another one. At first students tried to amend the proposal to knock out the seven slots afforded the current conference organizers and to change the wording so that there might be a conference next year if people thought it wise. But resentment and grumbling was rising in the ranks. The organizers put a new chairman in charge of the meeting to keep order, but he couldn't stem the rebellious tide. Eventually, delegates tabled the whole idea in disgust, thereby...