Word: rejections
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...Manuel Dur?o Barroso either replace Buttiglione or shuffle him out of the Justice, Freedom and Security post. Barroso declined, instead promising to spread responsibility for antidiscrimination enforcement among several new Commissioners. Not good enough, say Buttiglione's opponents. The Parliament can't turn down individual Commissioners, but it can reject the Commission as a whole. And that's exactly what some groups are threatening this week. "The Socialist Group cannot vote in favor of this Commission," says its leader, Martin Schulz of Germany. "We do not have confidence in it." Only the center-right European People's Party supports Barroso...
...example, a college may encourage “marginal” students to apply only to reject them, thus increasing the college’s apparent selectivity...
...visited again, railing that India?then in the midst of a crisis caused by Indira Gandhi's decision to suspend democracy?was "left alone with the blankness of its decayed civilization." The only hope, Naipaul argued, was that the country had failed so completely that Indians would reject their past and start over...
...historically racist leadership of Arab countries is still hostile to the very idea of black humanity. I would call on Arab students within the United States, many of whom sought legal protection under statutes originally gained by black struggle after 9/11 made them targets for racial discrimination, to reject this moral hypocrisy and stand up and condemn the inaction of the Arab League and participate in the movement to protect human life in Sudan...
...give a "woman the right to have children and the protection of a man." These and other comments estranged a majority of the parliamentary committee, which voted first that he was ill-suited for that post, and then for the Commission altogether. In fact, Parliament can only approve or reject the Commission as a whole. But both the Socialists and Liberals are demanding that Barroso recast Buttiglione's role. "Barroso has to draw the consequences, and if he doesn't we'll vote against this Commission," says Martin Schulz, leader of the Socialist Group, the body's second largest. Will...