Word: rescindment
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...solicitor's office will decide whether to rescind the easement agreement would constitute a taking of property rights by the city...
Critics contend that a law would solidify the guarantee to Chinese students that they would not be forced to leave the U.S. Although Bush has the power to rescind the executive order, he would never use that authority while there is danger waiting for the students in China. Concern for the Chinese strudents and their families is foremost in the President's mind...
...long moment, it looked as though there might be another Tiananmen after all. On Oct. 9 the 77-year-old party boss Erich Honecker ordered the police to use "all available force" to clear the streets, but Egon Krenz, then in charge of security, persuaded him to rescind the order. Each week the Monday demonstrations grew, to 200,000 on Oct. 23, to 480,000 on Nov. 6. The marches, always peaceful and sober, increasingly impressive, spread throughout East Germany...
...academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom of movement." It further states, "Interference with any of these freedoms is to be regarded as a serious violation of the personal rights upon which the community is based." No one in the University's Administration seems willing to rescind this statement, and no one denies that ROTC proudly discriminates against students based on sexual orientation. Yet the University continues to allow them to meet on campus...
Bush's announcement drew bipartisan applause on Capitol Hill, although Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) said he was not about to rescind his criticism that the president's policies toward the blossoming of democracy in Eastern Europe have been too "timid...