Word: lifting
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...total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...other words lift the general economic sanctions package that has failed to overthrow Saddam, but keep controls over what weapons he can acquire...
When the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted two weeks ago to lift the eight-year term limit on the speaker's term, there were many justified cries of outrage. Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who would have been forced to surrender his immensely powerful position in 2004 under the old rules, ostensibly excused himself from the vote and claims he did not pressure lawmakers on the issue. But he was undoubtedly watching each member's vote with keen interest. Indeed, shortly after the vote, loyal lieutenants were given choice committee assignments and leadership roles, while opponents were exiled to backwater posts...
...Once hailed by visitors as the "Bride of the Mediterranean," Tripoli has seen better days. The city is in desperate need of a paint job, if not a face-lift. Still, underneath the neglect spawned by three decades of socialism and eight years of sanctions, there's still plenty of evidence of an unmistakably beautiful city...
...confused with mere storytelling. To most of them a pile of bricks a la Carl Andre is just that, a pile of bricks, and nothing, especially nothing written in the strained jargon of "modularity," "sequentiality" and "factuality" favored by critics in art magazines, is going to lift it into the same category of experience as a marble carving or a bronze...