Word: favorable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Iran is the most telling example. Late last month millions of men and women went to the polls for a referendum in which they voted overwhelmingly in favor of an Islamic republic. The affirmative vote created the nation's first "government of God," declared the Ayatullah Khomeini. The monarchy will be replaced by a democratic system with an elected legislature; religious leaders will probably have some kind of veto power over prospective laws. The success of the yearlong Iranian revolution, which ousted a dynastic autocrat who dreamed of turning his country into a Western-style industrial and secular state...
Late in the first round. Doti caught Crowe with a looping left hook, but he could not put the blond to the canvas. Crowe returned the favor by staggering Doti with a straight left, but he too, could not finish the task...
...spokesman for Gov. Edward J. King and Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke denied on Monday reports that the King administration will scrap plans to renovate Boston's Central Artery in favor of constructing a third Boston Harbor tunnel crossing...
...favor universal conscription for military or non-military national service in peacetime...
...Assembly is not a government but a lobbying group in which the existence of inflexible factions will give the administration all the ammunition it will ever need to question the legitimacy and thoroughness of Assembly proposals. One can favor the existence of political parties in the various levels of government of the United States while still disapproving of political parties in the Student Assembly, a lobbying body whose constitution asserts that it "represents the general interests of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates" and claims none of the mandatory powers given to a government...