Word: retractment
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...friends—my own sat on opposite sides of the fence—I signed up to join the 369th graduating class at Harvard. But as I sat in my AP English class, I seriously contemplated racing home to pull the card out of the mailbox and retract my decision...
...verdict can't be overturned based simply on more evidence is part of the American system of justice." Says Harvard's Alan Dershowitz: "The law has a stake in more than this case. It worries about the hundreds in prison who now may be inclined to have people retract testimony...
...order for the six-party talks to restart, there should be the right justifications and conditions. This means an explicit apology from the United States for the 'outpost of tyranny' remark." HAN SONG RYOL, deputy chief of North Korea's U.N. mission, calling for the U.S. to retract Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on the Hermit Kingdom and to agree to discuss mutual nuclear disarmament...
...implications of the decision do not apply retroactively, and “shall apply only prospectively.” Thus Quinlan is not forced to retract her ruling excluding evidence about Colono’s past history in the Pring-Wilson case. However, she voluntarily called the upcoming hearing and will consider a new trial if she determines that Colono’s history is relevant to the case...
...since then a pilgrimage site for millions; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1917, at age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th of every month for five months. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief." ?By Daniel Simmons, with bureau reports...