Word: rejoins
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...France appears ready to return to the NATO fold. On Tuesday, President Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a 15-year military plan that aims to deepen France's involvement with its NATO and European allies in the fight against post-9/11 threats. And critically, he indicated that France will soon rejoin NATO's military command, even if its nuclear forces would remain under strictly national control. "We can renew our relations with NATO without fearing for our independence and without the risk of being unwillingly dragged into a war," Sarkozy said...
...move would be very political and symbolic," says François Heisbourg, a military expert and special adviser to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in Paris. Heisbourg, who helped draft Sarkozy's military plan, predicted France would actually rejoin by the time of a Franco-German summit in March next year...
...remarks appeared to be yet another appeal by Maliki to convince Sunni factions who've boycotted his government for nearly a year to rejoin. Foundering negotiations between his government and the main Sunni bloc, the National Accordance Front, have gone on for months with no visible signs of progress, much to the frustration of Iraqi and American officials who'd like to shore up support for the Prime Minister...
...such treachery these days; at very most, our faculty features a handful of zany libertarians and communitarians—all no doubt collegial, cooperative folks.Professor of government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 might explain a bit of collective hesitancy amongst the faculty to rejoin the revolutionary party after a period of sad separation; 1991 found him saying he was “glad to see [Marxism] dead and gone” and planning “to keep a careful watch to stomp on it” should it reawaken. What exactly this ‘stomping?...
...same time, Rice held the door open for members of the Sadrist movement to come back into the political fold as well. Al-Sadr is unlikely to allow his political loyalists to rejoin the government, which he has been boycotting for months because of its association with the Americans...