Word: invalidity
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...have the safe period extended to three years. As murmurs of a no-confidence vote grew louder, Somare adjourned Parliament for five months. But the time that bought him was cut short. In April, the Supreme Court ruled that the December selection of a new Governor-General had been invalid: Parliament must meet and vote again. The plotters had their chance...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that same-sex marriages were not legal in his state, but that marriages performed in other states would not necessarily be considered invalid...
Doing so would be a mistake. Although fears that an interloper may have access to student bedrooms and then start pilfering at will—once he or she has swiped in—may seem plausible, this is an invalid objection. Quincy House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 explains, “Most cases of theft in all the Houses involve students letting unauthorized people into the House or failing to take the elementary precaution of keeping the suite door locked.” Therefore, House communities can take other precautions to address the problem...
Back when I got it, polio was an epidemic in New York City. Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated. The illness started with a high fever, which was painful and scary and lasted two days. After that, I was paralyzed. I wasn't frightened, though. But I was lonely. I had been quarantined from other kids, except for my older brother and younger sister...
...political parties. - By Bruce Crumley Phantom Victory U.K. Environmental group Friends of the Earth won its campaign to stop a British company from breaking up a fleet of toxic U.S. Navy "ghost ships" after a high court judge ruled that the license awarded to dismantler Able UK was invalid. The fate of four ships already in the U.K. was unclear. Blow to ETA FRANCE Police arrested four suspected members of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA, including its alleged military leader and chief of logistics, in the southwestern village of Lons. All four were placed under formal investigation on suspicion...