Word: inhibitive
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...major rule announced in the 1971 case of Lemon vs. Kurtzman. But in all the newest religion cases, the court forcefully reaffirmed its commitment to the Lemon test, which makes three demands on any religiously oriented legislation: that it have a secular purpose, that it neither advance nor inhibit religion and that it avoid "excessive entanglement" between government and religion. Justice Brennan's application of the test in the New York school case left officials in what dissenting Justice William Rehnquist called a "catch-22." City school officials argued that they took special care not to advance religion by closely...
...piece was, after all, written around 1800, while Beethoven's teacher Haydn was still alive. The revolutionary Fourth Concerto, in which the piano daringly speaks before the orchestra, gets an introspective, reflective performance in keeping with its contemplative nature. Only in the Fifth Concerto does Ashkenazy's rectitude inhibit him from the kind of large-scale reading the Emperor can support, yet his nimble style is fully in keeping with his restrained approach to the cycle as a whole. Mehta and the silken Vienna Philharmonic prove ideal partners in the venture...
...begin with the Westmoreland trial, coming amid a series of celebrated libel suits, what lasting impact--if any--do you think it will have on the media? Do you think the threat of similar multi-million dollar law suits will inhibit other news organizations in their reporting...
There is little doubt that Iraq still possesses stockpiles of chemical weapons-- and none at all that mustard gas had severely injured the Iranians taken to Western Europe. Doctors treating the men reported burns and blisters of the skin, lung lesions that inhibit breathing, and chemical traces of the gas in body fluids. Said Burn Specialist Max von Karlmann of the Isar Right- Bank Clinic in Munich: "The clinical picture shows clear evidence of injury inflicted by mustard...
...roughly $7,500). All the while, million-dollar bribes, backed often by threats, bought the coqueros official indulgence at home and abroad. "These are vicious people with huge amounts of money at their disposal," says Francis ("Bud") Mullen, head of the DEA. "That does inhibit individuals who would ordinarily support law enforcement...