Word: referring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rising rhetoric. There's unlikely to be any kind of showdown any time soon for one overarching reason - there is simply little appetite among the key players in the dispute to escalate matters. The IAEA had already in principle decided, at its previous board meeting in January, to refer Iran to the Security Council, yet Monday's meeting - expected to last up to three days - is still expected to offer Tehran another 30 days in which to cut a deal. Veto-wielding Security Council members Russia and China remain resolutely opposed to sanctions, which conflict with their own national economic...
Intelligence of this kind helped secure the backing of Russia and China in last month's IAEA vote to refer Iran to the Security Council. Western officials hope the new briefing will win council support for further action; most of them see no viable alternative to U.N. efforts to try to gain Iran's compliance. As a Western diplomat puts it, "There's a military option--but not a military solution...
...fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus, a process that anti-abortion-rights advocates say is effectively an abortion. In a concession to opponents, Wal-Mart will keep its policy allowing individual pharmacists with moral qualms about Plan B to turn a customer down, as long as they refer her to another pharmacist or nearby pharmacy. (That policy will not apply in Massachusetts or Illinois...
...like Dewey espouse have real victims. Queer individuals continue to face discrimination and violence because of their orientation. Each year, several thousand Americans are victims of hate crimes because of their sexual orientation. It does not help that student leaders at our country’s best-known university refer to those who wish to change this unfortunate status quo as tools of the Antichrist. As Harvard students, we have a responsibility to attack bigotry when it rears its head in our community. We might think that we are showing respect to the Harvard community by pulling our punches when...
...Robert before and said, ‘Smash,’ and he says, ‘Done,’ and two minutes later, we’re smashing,” Howell says.“Smashing,” in this case, doesn’t refer to drinking games or car windows; it’s their code for playing the cartoonish Nintendo 64 multiplayer fighting classic “Super Smash Brothers.” It’s become a phenomenon in Weld Hall—they estimate that some 24 other students...