Word: exertion
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...Ambassador Bloomfield says the "meltdown" scenario if the King abdicated is "far-fetched" and that a new civilian government could quickly exert control. Out on the streets, even the demonstrators express reservations about life without a monarch. "No one has a clear road map for what might happen after the King," says one, 26-year-old Ravi Shah, an administrator with a youth-education charity. "We've had a system of Kings for 237 years. Is it possible to just throw them out?" Bhandari concurs. He says that whatever the King's faults, the older generation still revere...
...Although the extremists among the Iranian elites came to reject it, there was consensus over this plan just months ago. Such a proposition would be safer and more beneficial for both Iran and international stability. But should such a plan fail to gain traction, the U.S. should continue to exert pressure on its allies to enforce strict sanctions on Iran...
...degree rivaling a priest's--all while holding day jobs, with most of their pay devolving to the group. That near cloistered life produces the group's most avid, satisfied members and its bitterest dropouts. Opus steers a small number of members toward the priesthood, and they exert considerable influence on the lay majority...
...With Parliament starting a new session this week, the journalists, at least, say the issues at stake are critical. "We contribute as members of the press to holding the government accountable for its actions," says Latraverse. "Canadians should be worried when they see the government trying to exert such an unprecedented level of control." Unions that represent journalists have spoken in even harsher terms. Peter Murdoch of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union says the new policy "smacks of totalitarianism...
...Balsillie was scheduled to meet with patent-office officials on Jan. 4, 2005, along with representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce (such meetings are highly unusual). In February a Canadian government official contacted a patent-office lawyer to find out if the Canadian Patent Office should "exert an interest or pressure" on its American counterpart. That November Canada's Minister of Industry, David Emerson, wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, urging that the patent office expedite the review of NTP's patents or at least lay out a timetable in public. "We knew nothing about these contacts...