Word: reject
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Left-wing Gaullists and many Socialists also voted yes, but they reject Algerian integration and ask for a negotiated settlement. Nevertheless many of those (like Pierre Mendes-France) who have pressed for such a settlement have insisted on voting no, in order to protest against the coup d' Alger of May 13 and against the spirit of the Constitution, which they consider insufficiently democratic. They remain faithful to the old Republican tradition which associates democracy only with a sovereign Parliament...
...Gaulle is supposed to reject both integration and independence for Algeria; and as long as the Algerian Liberation Front insists that negotiations must lead to France's acceptance of independence, to reject the latter means to reject the former. De Gaulle's predecessors have had the same attitude. It is a realistic one given the state of mind of Frenchmen in Algeria (both civilian and military) as well as of Frenchmen in France (where very few of the Liberals have come out for independence; on the whole they ask for negotiations, thus forgetting a bit too easily what the Liberation...
...District school boards must refer all Negro applications for white schools to a three-man state pupil-placement board, which can reject them on any basis except color. ("We had to figure out a defense that was based on anything but race," Lindsay Almond once explained. "You see, that would be going against the Supreme Court decision.") The pupil-placement law has already been swept aside in some federal court districts...
...United Arab Republic and the only Farouk-era holdover to retain a senior post in Nasser's revolution. Fawzi, a topflight international lawyer, skillfully pounced on a fact which almost everyone else had overlooked: if the great powers were prepared to accept a compromise settlement, they could scarcely reject a compromise proposed by a united front of Arab states. And there was every reason why all Arab powers, including the violently anti-Nasser governments of Lebanon and Jordan, might join in sponsoring such a resolution. By so doing, they would win position with their own people for having demonstrated...
...camera focuses on an anonymous mother) with translucent charm by Nicole Courcel, whose pain-free delivery provides the doctor with his triumph and the film with its spectacular ending. Thus it becomes a warm, witty, wise movie that is capable of making its point even to viewers who reject its message...