Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made an empty offer as a gambit in the forthcoming debates over Puerto Rico in the United Nations Decolonization Committee. He gave good reason to suspect the latter when he used his arrival at the economic summit as an occasion for warning Cuba that the United States would never relinquish Puerto Rico. If we take him at his word, he acted out of sympathy with Puerto Rico's aspirations--no doubt, as he saw them through the manicured hedges of the Dorado Beach Hotel...
...punishment for such a long time. If executions were televised live and in color, like press conferences, the fear of being put to death would be quickly reimplanted in the minds of all potential capital offenders. Capital punishment satisfies the moral obligation of those who take lives unlawfully to relinquish their own lives in return...
...consecutive good harvests, the best in India's history. But Mrs. Gandhi is not yet satisfied with the results of her 20-point economic program initiated under emergency rule. Moreover, if she were to allow even the semblance of a free campaign, she would have to relinquish those special powers. In fact, the wholesale price index is up 10% in the past six months. Diehard opponents of her regime have gone underground. More ominously, there has been increasingly violent resistance to the government's aggressive family-planning program, which has caused rioting, resulting in some deaths in several...
Understandably unwilling to relinquish its powers and privileges, the men of "the Bunker"-diehard, archconservative Franquistas-have attacked Suárez's reform. They want the bill altered to grant more powers to the Council of the Realm, an appointive 17-man body that advises the King. The Franquistas also insist on an appointed upper house based on the Franco-style corporate system, rather than a popularly elected one. Because of the Bunker's opposition and the recent emergence of a center-right alliance of parties, Suárez may have to accept some modifications in order...
...captors released him only after he agreed to leave Spain and relinquish his position as editor of Doblon, a Spanish weekly that Martinez Soler says is a "vanguard for democracy in Spain...