Search Details

Word: forfeited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...ruling by the court is expected in one to three months. If she loses her appeal, she will be ordered to resign her seat in Parliament-and hence as Prime Minister. In this case, however, the Election Commissioner is expected to set aside the ruling that Mrs. Gandhi must forfeit her seat. By then, Parliament will probably have indefinitely extended the state of emergency, which would enable the Prime Minister to keep postponing the next national election-now scheduled for February 1976. Doing so, however, would probably mean that India's 28-year-old experiment in democracy had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Life in a Derailed Democracy | 7/21/1975 | See Source »

Dunster 1 -- Currier 0 (forfeit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramurals | 4/25/1975 | See Source »

...able to find a reasonable place to stand--reasonable implying a place where there was no danger that the guy in front of you was giving our Michelob shampoos or that the lady to your right might mistake our sweater for a napkin--you had to remain there, or forfeit your favored position to the person breathing obscenities down your neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Savoir-Faire | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...Crimson spikers were not ready to forfeit the division title. In the next two games they played steady ball, taking advantage of a weakened Springfield attack, and in the fourth game Peter Graham blocked the last of Springfield's feeble spikers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Spikers Victorious in Clutch, Narrowly Defeat Powerful Springfield | 3/20/1975 | See Source »

When the Big Eight collegiate athletic conference discovered that the high school transcripts of two football players at the University of Oklahoma had been altered two years ago, the case upended big-time college football. The Sooners-one of the nation's best teams-were required to forfeit eight of their 1972 victories and the conference championship. They were also hit with two seasons of N.C.A.A. "probation," which barred Oklahoma from bowl games. The two youngsters involved, Quarterback Kerry Jackson and Center Michael Phillips, were suspended from the team for a year, even though they were cleared of complicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Semi-Tough Justice | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Previous | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | Next