Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hockey team is not likely to relinquish its hold on greatness...
Labor's young guard would prefer to go into opposition and let voters experience a right-wing religious government. But Peres and Rabin are not eager to relinquish power for the sake of ideology. For Peres the personal element is very strong: banishment to the opposition could prove fatal to his political career. For Shamir the price could be no less high. If he fulfills the promise he made to the ultra-Orthodox, he risks making enemies of America's 6 million Jews...
Shamir will probably accede to a right-wing coalition whose policies reflect more extreme views than those presented by the last government. Israelis can expect a tough line on the occupied territories. Driven by a vision of a Greater Israel, Shamir has vowed never to relinquish an inch of Biblical Judea and Samaria. But he has always stopped short of going along with more extreme demands for annexation. Instead he now embraces the Camp David formula he rejected in 1978, which would grant the Palestinians a semblance of autonomy. That concession sounds to most Arabs like little more than...
...found itself against a Crimson team that just would not relinquish the match...
...Israel's survival can only be ensured through a resolution of the Palestinian issue; any step in that direction will ultimately strengthen Israel. Peace in the Middle East has been achieved only through United States intervention and pressure; Israel, though wanting peace with Egypt, was extremely hesistant to relinquish the Sinai. And we should remember that the current Prime Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, opposed even this treaty. What makes us think that he would be any more willing to compromise in the current situation on his own initiative? U.S. pressure on Israel is a prerequisite to peace. Political pressure is certainly...