Word: impetuses
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...Falun Gong is using Hong Kong as a rallying point in a campaign to protest their colleagues' fate on the mainland. Beijing reacted with fury in January when 1,000 Falun Gong members held a meeting at Hong Kong's City Hall. Nor is there any dispute that the impetus to crush the group is coming from the very top. "Jiang Zemin let it be known that he wanted the crackdown," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing...
...that a sovereign state like Libya was immune from U.S. jurisdiction. Since then, however, the law has been changed to allow suits against certain states, including Libya. While they have been on hold pending the outcome of the Scottish criminal case, they are likely to get some impetus from the guilty ruling. According to plaintiff's lawyer Mark Zaid, $1 billion in Libyan assets are frozen in the U.S. and could be seized in case of a judgment; the plaintiffs are demanding far more than that...
...With no threat of jail time, will users find impetus to stay clean...
...Pakistan Islamic militant group Jamiatul Mujahideen. "India is a pain for us. We want to get rid of that pain. Our mission is to fight. Whether we succeed or die, either way we are satisfied." The main question is whether the years of violence and antagonism are an impetus to working out a solution, or the highest hurdle. "This can eventually work toward an endgame," says Amitabh Mattoo, a Kashmir analyst at India's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "But it is a huge challenge and it is not going to be easy...
...LANKA Hopes Grow Adding to the impetus for peace, the opposition People's Alliance said it supported government efforts to end the country's 18-year civil war, including the possible lifting of a ban on the Tamil Tiger group. Norwegian-led truce talks were also being held in London...