Word: ceding
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Arafat's dilemma was real enough. The U.S. has implicitly asked him to cede leadership of the Palestinian movement, at least temporarily, to the King of Jordan. Moderate Palestinians, especially residents of the West Bank, have tried to convince Arafat that the strategy is worth trying, since it might be the only one that could give the Palestinians what they most want: control over their land. But Arafat has also come under pressure from hard-line P.L.O. factions who oppose negotiations under U.S. auspices. At a meeting in Algiers last February of the Palestine National Council, the de facto...
...reason that conservatives, of all Americans, should recoil from the amendment is that it would irreparably alter the checks and balances in the Constitution. It would require Congress to cede enormous power to the courts and/or the President...
...several congressman, including Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), have voiced strong opposition to the plan, arguing that it would cede federal powers to private institutions. immigar...
...talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented evidence to prove, for example, that the privacy act would preclude unisex toilets." When the battle moved to more substantial issues, it was again on opponents' terms. Foes claimed that the ERA would cede states' rights to the Federal Government, cause the death of the family by removing a man's obligation to support his wife and children and lead to women being drafted for combat duty. Both feminists and Schlafly believe the draft was the issue most damaging...
...would, in reality, make the act a dead letter. Most important, the Administration wants to excise the central clause of the act--the one requiring national standards for the treatment of industrial wastes. It also proposes to extend permits for discharging wastes from five to 10 years, and to cede to municipal or state authorities the power to determine tolerable levels of toxicity in local waters...