Word: null
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...easy two-step system is that as long as everyone sticks to it, it works. Problems arise—such as last week’s attempted burglary in Kirkland—when both lines of defense fail. Swipe-access’s protection is rendered null when we ignore our friendly neighborhood HUPD officer’s admonitions to stop “piggybacking,” and let someone follow us into our house without swiping his or her own ID card. And even doors with locks permit entry when they are propped open by a coat hanger...
...little conceivable motive for...[Smiley] to intentionally conceal the theft of other maps at this point.” But Goldman said Smiley still has “an incentive not to come forward now. [If he revealed additional thefts] the terms of the plea agreement would be null and void and Smiley would face stiffer sentencing guidelines.” The Harvard College Libraries—along with the other affected libraries—are seeking punishment to the fullest extent of the law, Brainard said. Goldman and the British Library have gone further—they have advocated...
...take serious objection to your claim that Israeli setters built their illegal settlements on wasteland. They have built them on well-nurtured soil on which my ancestors shed sweat and blood. And the fact that these settlers have labored relentlessly to maintain this stolen property does not render null and void the fact that these territories were forcefully acquired and populated in defiance of explicit and unambiguous provisions of international and humanitarian law. Peace between us Palestinians and our Israeli neighbors can only be achieved when mutual trust prevails, and that will only be realized when legitimate Palestinian and Israeli...
...members casting ballots.But at the time, the council overlooked an existing clause in its constitution requiring a two-thirds majority for changing the bylaws.The council’s parliamentarian footnoted the constitution to say that “the two-thirds requirement for amending the Bylaws is null and void, and the majority requirement is operative.”But last month, representative Matthew R. Greenfield ’08 tried to turn back the clock. He proposed a constitutional amendment that would restore the two-thirds requirement for bylaws changes.The council voted 31-0-4 for Greenfield?...
...weird,” he paused, “I think the more conservative you are, the more orderly you become. This is how Hamas operates in Palestine. And people respect that, Shira. Because people know, if Hamas promises something, Hamas makes true. Unlike Fatah, whose words are null and void...