Word: formal
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...create a functioning participatory democracy to replace the repressive rule of the administration and trustees of the University. The acceptance of amnesty by the administration is a fundamental part of this transition because it establishes the illegitimacy of the existing structures. The granting of amnesty is the formal establishment of a new order--the right and power of all people affected by the University not to be judged by illegitimate authority...
...addition, amnesty is a vital precondition for negotiations on other issues. We cannot negotiate with a sword over our heads. Without amnesty, we run the risk that any formal concessions we win will be short-lived, politically empty and easily betrayed...
...fact-finding committee will hold its first meeting tomorrow in New York. Cox said that all involved parties will be invited to participate in the meetings, which will be conducted as formal hearings...
Three days after succeeding Lester Pearson as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, went before Parliament last week and, in his first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...
...their faces on the theory that it deadened the effects of the chemical Mace. Suddenly image-conscious, they began tidying up their own disorder, even emptying wastebaskets. A coordinated command post was set up, mimeograph machines churned out bulletins and manifestos. The Negro group in Hamilton Hall issued a formal statement: "We are prepared to remain here indefinitely. Morale is high...