Word: cedes
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...source close to Reischauer said he was unlikely to cede his place on the Corporation or his position as president of the Urban Institute...
...President Bush will never cede the best interests of the national security of the American people to anybody but the president of the United States, along with the Congress,” said the spokesperson, Kevin A. Madden...
...scariest scenario is that Musharraf's fellow military officers are plotting against him. (Musharraf could cede control of the military in months; under the agreement with legislators legitimizing his presidency, he promised to step down as army Chief of Staff by 2005.) Many in the military are more Islamic-minded than the President; others are angered by his abandonment of the Taliban, which the Pakistani armed forces helped create, and of Kashmiri jihadis, whom they aided. The circumstances of the December attacks suggest inside help. The plotters apparently knew the President's route and schedule and, in the Christmas attack...
...just an agreement between us and the Governing Council, but I think we all intend to stick to them. There will be a transitional legislature by the end of May. The assembly then will elect a transitional government, which is fully sovereign by the end of June. Once we cede sovereignty, as a matter of law, the occupation ends...
...Montgomery C. Burns, who argued that his fellow Elis should just “let Harvard keep its football and academics [because] Yale will always be first in gentlemanly club life.” Could it be true? Might there be some ground, on any issue, that Harvard should cede to Yale in the debate over which is the greater university? In all fairness, there are some ways in which Yale has it easy. With affordable local real estate and an accomodating city police force, students have a natural supplement to the on-campus social scene. Harvard?...