Word: curtailment
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...years, I have vehemently opposed the politics of Jack Straw, a leading member of Tony Blair's Cabinet and former British Foreign Secretary. He has backed the disastrous war in Iraq and domestic laws that curtail civil liberties. In his north of England constituency, which[an error occurred while processing this directive] has a sizable Muslim population, he panders to local Muslim bosses. But last week, in his local newspaper, Straw came out against the niqab, the full body and face veil worn by some Muslim women. The niqab, Straw wrote, makes him uneasy and hampers communication. He now asks...
...government once imagined, the odds against him have grown. If the battle ends with less than a demonstrable victory for Israel--an outcome he has insisted is unsatisfactory--then Hizballah and its backers Syria and Iran would declare a moral victory just as the U.S. is trying to curtail the influence of both radical states and as American power is being tested in Iraq...
...also may be a problem for the U.S. diplomatic efforts to enlist its Asian allies to help curtail North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Under Koizumi - who travels this week to the U.S., making stops both in Washington and at Graceland - Japan has taken a more muscular role in world affairs and sent troops to Iraq. The changes have been warmly welcomed in Washington, which has long wanted Japan to shoulder more responsibility for its own defense and become a more substantial counterweight to the regional ambitions of China and North Korea. The U.S. has been alone among the other nations...
...interview with TIME last week in Bolivia, where Venezuela is aiding the oil and natural-gas nationalization decreed this month by leftist President Evo Morales, Ram?rez affirmed that he and Ch?vez will again call on OPEC to curtail oil production. The reason, he insisted, is to keep prices at "simply the fair market level for our most important natural resource," which now generates $83 billion per year for Venezuela compared to $53 billion in 2000. OPEC ministers will probably decline to cut back output much, if at all, especially since the record revenues they're enjoying would make...
...contact, they also estimated that a substantial 13,000 others had contracted the virus via heterosexual behavior. Moreover, regardless of whether people who currently avoid taking an HIV/AIDS test do so out of negligence or to avoid stigma, making testing more common will improve the information environment and help curtail HIV propagation. On a similar note, we hope the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will follow the CDC’s lead by altering its current policy of grouping gay men with prostitutes and intravenous drug users in instituting a lifetime ban on their ability to donate blood...