Word: restraint
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...trained media had ignored the story before. It was July 4 week, with its congressional recess and all-around dearth of news, that marked the Condit tale's ascendancy into the tier just below Monica and O.J. and Jon-Benet. But there was still more unsaid than said, some restraint in the airwaves. Condit's leaked admission was the cutting of the leash...
...Sharon told Bush he's paying a high cost politically, and if he doesn't see more stuff on the Palestinian side - such as arrests of terror suspects - he's not going to be able to sustain Israel's restraint. And now Powell will go to Arafat and say you've got to do more. Both sides will look to Powell to back up their claims of virtue, and of malfeasance on the part of their adversary. And he has to play it very carefully...
...Many Nepalis won't want to believe this version of events for a complex mix of reasons. Few can understand why a dutiful son would murder his parents and relatives?even over a disapproved marriage plan, the prevailing theory?and Dipendra was known for self-restraint, while his cousin Paras was the allegedly hotheaded one. Suspicions run deep over the fact that the King, Queen, the Crown Prince and his younger brother died, changing the line of succession to another family branch. "There is only one truth and people will have to believe it," says Damodar Gautam, Nepal's former...
...Tenet's plan, but with plenty of reservations of his own. "I can't say I am enthusiastic about the plan, but on the whole we can work and move forward," Sharon told an audience of Israeli businessmen Tuesday. Having risen in Western public opinion because of Israel's restraint following the suicide bomb in a Tel Aviv disco 11 days ago, the Israeli leader was content to feel pressure from his right flank in order to retain the diplomatic high ground. And having blundered, initially, Arafat added his approval in order to stay in the game...
...Burmese has gone down, and the beatings have taken their toll: he seems to be swimming in slow motion on the dirty floor. As he inches on his stomach across the ring, the crowd screams at him to get up while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving up, he feels his way to the ropes and, as he is pulled into the cursing throng, his eyelids flicker with the approaching blackout...