Word: cede
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...Neill room, where they usually held their weekly Bible class, and took turns reading Scripture and praying, sometimes holding hands. They finally told their leaders they would go along with the family-planning money and vote for the bill. Now Gingrich needed the moderates to cede ground over the rape and incest question. "This is a time when the American people are looking at what we are doing," he told them. Did they want to go home losers...
...Balkans. "This was the team that was carrying the water; they were the real worker bees doing work of ironing out the details for this plan." The toughest sell now, Waller says, will be a meeting next week in Paris, where Owen must convince Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic to cede the prozed Gorazde enclave to the Serbs.THE "NO EXCUSES" CANDIDATE...
...this conception of negative liberty is only the first step toward fulfilling the Constitution's promises. The Court now needs to realize that positive entitlements to communicative power are part of the fabric of our democratic process. In the case of private campaign finance, we now effectively cede control of elections to the markets' powers that be. Yet the market needs laws in order to operate, and state action is logically prior to and normatively superior to any economic activity...
...Clinton seemed to be musing about his presidency as much as his country. For months he had chafed at the strategy he adopted last December, in which he decided to cede the stage to the triumphant Republicans in the hope they would suffer the consequences of their lofty promises. Allies in Congress and his aides told him the strategy was working, but Clinton began to complain that they were forfeiting the endgame in the budget process and doing little more than asserting their own irrelevance. After keeping them largely in the dark about his ideas, and consulting covertly with Morris...
Undergraduate members voted to cede authorityto the graduate Board of The Crimson to "maintainthe continuity of the paper [the Service News] andto keep it from becoming a simple organ of theservices or the university," according to the 1943announcement...