Word: cede
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Give David E. Kelley credit for one thing: he's the one male producer in Hollywood not willing to cede gender issues to women. Judging by girls club (Fox, Mondays, 9 p.m. E.T.), his button-pushing-women-lawyers follow-up to his button-pushing-woman-lawyer serial Ally McBeal (canceled last season), we will have to pry gender issues from his cold, dead fingers...
...basis of existing resolutions. France has supported the principle of a new resolution closing the loopholes, but insists on keeping the authorization of force for a second resolution if the Council itself determines Saddam is not complying. The resolution being demanded by Washington, they say, would effectively cede to the Bush Administration the role of judge, jury and executioner...
...Saddam refuses to comply with inspections, the UN is a lot less likely than, say, the U.S. Congress, to give President Bush proxy authority to make the judgment call. They may ultimately accept that U.S. military might accords it the role of enforcer, but the Security Council won't cede to the White House the role of judge and jury...
...matter of principle I do not think it appropriate for a college to cede responsibility for setting its application requirements to NACAC,” Hargadon wrote in an e-mail...
...have discussed with the NACAC leadership, I cannot in good conscience cede to them the authority to dictate Princeton’s application requirements...