Word: provisos
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...Majesty's Government,'' it said, ''view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.'' Jews tend to quote this first part of the declaration without proceeding to the next proviso: ''. . . it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.'' There, again, is the discrepancy: How can justice be done both to Jews and the ''existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine''? In any case, the Palestinians have...
...offset industry have become a free-for-all. It seems obvious, for example, that a project should reduce emissions below the level that would have occurred without that project, a condition known as "additionality." But that's not always the case. Thanks to hazy interpretations of that proviso, "at least half" of current projects wouldn't meet a uniformly strict assessment, says Michael Schlup, director of the Gold Standard Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, an organization dedicated to eradicating just such inconsistencies. His group unveiled what's designed to be a rigorous, industry-wide protocol in May, and says that around...
...understand? I'd argue the latter. The 18th century German playwright Gotthold Lessing said it best. He prayed a simple prayer: "If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left hand only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say, Father, I will take this--the pure Truth is for You alone...
...President Robert Mugabe lost a nation-wide referendum on constitutional reform. The defeat was a thinly veiled criticism of Mugabe’s leadership and a revolt against a proviso which would have indefinitely extended his rule. Mugabe’s response was vicious. He intimidated opposition and stacked parliament and the courts with his supporters, doubled the police force, formed academies to militarize youth, and encouraged renegade gangs to enforce his policies...
Reagan, meanwhile, had another set of arms negotiations to resolve--with the U.S. Congress. Democrats in the House had tacked onto a critical spending bill a package of tough arms amendments that the Administration strongly opposed. Among them: a one-year ban on nuclear testing, a proviso that would forbid Reagan to violate the limits set by the unratified SALT II treaty and deep cuts in Star Wars funding. But under public pressure from the President, Congress backed down on Friday, moderating the SDI cuts and settling for a nonbinding resolution urging Reagan to comply with SALT II. The House...