Word: dismissing
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...made a plea for national unity, but top Fatah members involved in the negotiations say that their leaders will probably refuse to join Haniya's cabinet. And Fatah is loath to give up cushy jobs. Aziz Dweik, the new Hamas speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, tried to dismiss Ibrahim Khraisheh from his position as the Council's secretary-general. According to witnesses, 20 gunmen ringed the Council building and demanded that Hamas give Fatah's Khraisheh back his post, despite his defeat in the elections. Eventually the gunmen backed off. In its last days in power, Fatah placed dozens...
...When the stakes got higher, Bonds ramped up his drug use, the authors say. Bonds started using steroids after the 1998 season, when Mark McGwire, another suspected user, hit 70 home runs, breaking Rogers Maris? record and mesmerizing the nation. Bonds allegedly dismissed McGwire?s accomplishments- ?They?re just letting him do it because he?s a white boy,? he allegedly told his mistress, Kimberly Bell. But he didn?t dismiss McGwire?s hulking physique, and soon connected with Anderson, known for his access to steroids. The authors say that the San Francisco Giants knew of Anderson?s background...
...other recruiter that violates its nondiscrimination policy,” he wrote. Even if the nondiscrimination policy did not target the military, Roberts wrote, it would violate the Solomon Amendment if it led to less access for military recruiters.Observers said they were not surprised that the court to dismiss the Harvard professors’ statutory argument. Both the government and FAIR opposed the professors’ interpretation during oral arguments in December.Howard J. Bashman, a Pennsylvania attorney who filed a brief supporting the government’s position, said that “the court typically allows the parties...
...situation is complicated by the fact that all of Jaafari's detractors are motivated by different agendas - and some of them at odds with one another. The Sunnis dismiss Jaafari as too sectarian and unwilling to make concessions to accommodate their interests; most recently he was fiercely denounced for his government's failure to protect Sunnis from a wave of a violent retribution for the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine two weeks ago. The U.S., for its part, has found Jaafari to be insufficiently responsive to Washington's concerns and demands, and his historic ties with Iran haven...
...substance, only in terms of image. You’d be hard pressed to come up with someone in music who owes more to the novelty of their existence and less to the quality of their music. But hey, nobody likes a cynic, so let’s not dismiss Matisyahu just for being different—as long as he doesn’t try and cash in on his differences, right? Well, enter the video for the first single, “Youth,” off the upcoming album of the same name. It begins with...