Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arena Stage had been promised $225,000 for fiscal 1982--not really enough, but we'd made plans for the money already. Now they tell us we're not getting the full amount. I think it's a breach of promise on the part of the government to promise these funds, and then to arbitrarily pull back at the last minute. There's no way the private sector will be able to make up the slack," Fichlandar says...
...permutations and elasticity--be it the law of God or of man. Isabelle's refusal to yield to Angelo's desires condemns her brother to death and even in the context of 17th-century Christianity, it comes off as little more than brutality, and Angelo's subsequent breach of his promise, as he orders Claudio's execution, is utterly despicable. Even when the Duke returns in disguise of a friar, and devises an elaborate plan to save Isabelle's honor, spare Claudio's head, and unmask the culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins...
After Elvis Presley died in August of 1977, there was in the media what could only be described as a massive breach of taste. There were five miles of crowds in Memphis. Tennessee, at Elvis's mansion, Graceland. In Nashville, when Elvis's father died, there were two miles of crowds. His father. His father didn't sing a note in his life. But he sired the King. He had proved that aristocracy could live, even in a place as retrograde as the Memphis of the 1950s...
...deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed attack in such circumstances cannot be justified; it represents a grave breach of international...
...relatively unsophisticated Iraqi technicians to handle it without assistance. So far Iraq has not been found guilty of any violations. The most recent inspection of Tammuz facility took place in January. Reported IAEA Deputy Hans Grűmm: "all fissionable material was accounted for. There has been no breach of treaty...