Word: reject
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Pursuit of Dialogue. Every section of the schema unfolds one or more ideas with revolutionary implications for Catholicism. The introduction notes the need for the church to recognize "the signs of the times." Chapter 1 warns that Christians should not reject this world for the sake of the next: "Anyone who is unwilling to be of service in the renewal of the world is seeking God in vain." A second chapter expresses Catholic willingness to renounce ancient rights when new circumstances demand it. In the third chapter, Christians are urged to "pursue the dialogue with all men of good will...
...cent of the card-carrying students and officers of the University attend the meeting, directors will be elected by a popular vote. Only Harvard students-no Cliffies-can vote. If a quorum is not achieved, the Coop's ten stockholders will chose the directors, and undoubtedly reject Dietz's candidates. John G. Merrill, general manager of the Coop, has estimated a quorum to be 1000 voters...
...Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers will apparently reject an appeal for help from the Citizens' Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, it was learned yesterday...
...Ghelderode showed little inclination to co-operate in settling these questions. "You are free to reject a poetical work of this kind," he said of Miss Jairus in 1951, "which proceeds from the irrational, from clairvoyance-but you haven't the right to ask me to justify it. I didn't ask what you call the public to go to see this undesirable play which I didn't ask anyone...
...local merchant, who seduced her when she was 17, left her pregnant and dishonored after hiring perjurers to testify to her lewdness. "The world made me a whore; now I will turn the world into a brothel," declares Madame Zachanassian. When the horrified villagers reject her offer, she smiles coolly: "I can wait...