Word: objectionably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just when it seemed that there had to be a vote, Quaison-Sackey came up with his nonvote formula. "If the Assembly will allow me," he announced in his staccato Afro-Oxford accent, "I would request each head of delegation to call on me in my offices behind the podium...
There was no objection. Awkward as the secret nonvoting procedure may have sounded, to the U.N.'s 115 member nations it was better than a formal vote-which would have forced the U.S. to challenge Russia's right to vote and ended the delicate search for a compromise...
No sooner had Rask spoken than defense attorneys leaped up all around and objected that the agent's statement was only "hearsay." Miss Carter, who, like many U.S. commissioners, has no formal legal training, furrowed her brow, asked a question, then said: "1 will have to sustain the objection...
Secretary-General U Thant announced the truce terms: "Issues other than those that can be disposed of without objection will not be raised." In short, the Assembly agreed for the present not to handle anything of importance and to avoid taking any votes, while the U.S. postponed a formal demand...
The only objection voiced by Monro was that the number of Faculty members on the HPC should be kept small, so that its Faculty delegation could not form a bloc large enough to prevail whenever there is student disagreement. Monro would be a member of the proposed HPC, and the...