Word: forswearing
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...That may be the compromise the U.S. and Israel ultimately reach. But it's the wrong one. First and foremost, asking Israel to forswear any response to an unprovoked Iraqi attack is a policy without any strategic or moral foundation, as even Arab leaders would agree. While Israeli intervention would have a short-term, inflammatory effect on Arab opinion, the rage would fade if (and it's still a big if) the U.S. removes Saddam quickly and convinces the world that its interest is to stabilize Iraq, not colonize it. The risks to Iraqi civilians - and to U.S. troops - posed...
...died, Abdullah Franji, 14, was fasting in accordance with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed...
...1990s, an outpouring of grassroots concern for the environment helped stop the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994. The threat of consumer backlash forced Home Depot to forswear the purchase of wood from ancient forests. Utilities and mining companies are less susceptible to direct consumer action, but still pay a price for alienating the public...
...according to one study, a full third of school districts had already embraced the abstinence-only approach. An entire industry has sprung up to help teens stick to their guns, including t-shirts blaring "Pet Your Dog Not Your Date" and pledge cards asking teens to forswear sex until marriage. Now the movement is getting an additional boost from above. Last month, the Health and Human Services department doled out $17 million in new federal grants and President Bush, a supporter of no-sex ed as governor of Texas, has vowed as part of his renewed focus on conservative values...
...indisputable that a badly designed ballot in Palm Beach County misdirected or disqualified thousands of votes intended for Gore. It is beyond reasonable dispute that those votes would have given Gore a clean win in Florida. Nevertheless, Gore offered to forswear any effort to claim those votes if Bush agreed to a fair and thorough recount of ballots as they were actually cast. Bush said...