Word: compliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Communications, published an article by Lingle on its opinion page. Lingle, then a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, wrote that ``intolerant regimes in the region reveal considerable ingenuity in their methods of suppressing dissent.'' Among several methods he listed was ``relying upon a compliant judiciary to bankrupt opposition politicians.'' The statement did not mention any country by name...
...fact, the Harvard general fund receives money from many sources, including alumni in paying money to MIT's ROTC program," he says, "and that fund was found being non-compliant, so I don't see the difference...
...much given to argument. In most matters he was deferential to his elders and compliant with his peers. But where music was concerned, he liked getting his own way, and he knew with fearsome certainty what his own right way was. With music, he was fierce, always. With music, Elvis Aron Presley gave no quarter.In the eighth grade at Humes High in Memphis, Tennessee, 10 blocks from the public-assistance housing project where he lived with his mother and father, Presley pulled a C in music. He objected. As Peter Guralnick writes in his supple and altogether splendid new biography...
...blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
Evander Holyfield, the former heavyweight champion of the world, opted to retire on Tuesday after receiving the news from his doctors that he has a "non-compliant left ventricle" in his heart...