Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show that he has the statutory muscle to enforce his legislation, Vellueci distributed copies of General Laws, Chapter 43, Section 100, which state in part that "in time of public danger or emergency as determined by the City Council, the Mayor may with the consent of the City Council take command of the police to maintain order and enforce laws...
...staffers asked permission to put out an issue, then took over completely. Rat staffers, like many other women in the movement, are bitterly resentful of the image of Women's Liberation they feel has been created by the press and TV. Some refuse to talk to major publications; others consent to interviews but only in pairs or groups. At least one major newspaper, however, has offered a hand: the Miami Herald ran a story recently headed "Fifty Ways Men Can Start Helping Women." Among those methods: "Let a woman take the initiative in dating and sex if she wants...
...qualification was well chosen, for the possibility of peace after nearly a quarter century of constant hostility and frequent war touched off new varieties of shock waves. At week's end, Israel's coalition cabinet was on the verge of splitting under the pressures of consent to the U.S. plan. Syria, Iraq and Algeria refused to follow Egypt's President Nasser and the other Arab nations in giving diplomacy a try. The Palestine guerrilla movement, accustomed to warring with Lebanon and Jordan over its freedom to make rocket and hit-and-run attacks on Israel, suddenly found...
...also as a force to be reckoned with in the domestic politics of nearly every Arab nation. "We are the joker in the deck," boasts Dr. George Habash, leader of the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), whose specialty is the hijacking of airplanes. "Without our consent, the other Arabs can do nothing, and we will never agree to a peaceful settlement. If the Arab countries now think they can gang up and make peace over our heads, they are mistaken. All we have to do is assert our power in one country and the rest will...
...moment of marriage and on the physical consummation of the union, rather than on any evidence of spiritual growth in what is held up as a spiritual bond. Impotence, for instance-either total or relative to the other partner-invalidates a marriage. So does lack of free consent by one or both parties (as in a "shotgun wedding"), or pre-agreed conditions that in the church's eyes violate the idea of true marriage, such as a refusal to have children. West and Francis argue that the church is wrong in its assumption that any person baptized a Catholic...