Word: sanction
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...wholeheartedly condemn the use of any underhanded campaign practices,” wrote Voith in an e-mail. “We would like to stress that the sender was a minor supporter, acted upon his/her own volition, without Tara’s or my approval, or any official sanction of any kind.”This is not the first incident in which Voith and Gadgil claimed no prior knowledge of a questionable act committed by a campaign staffer.Two weeks ago, the EC scrutinized the Voith-Gadgil campaign’s purchase of the website HaddockRiley.com, but decided...
...have been waiting silently for the day to come when an outside agency would step up and step in. And that day may be now. We rely on those who have a voice and wield the power of change. As fans, we rely on the NCAA to levy athletic sanctions on UND. As natives we rely on the National Congress of American Indians—which has vigorously opposed the “Fighting Sioux” nickname—to represent us. We rely on our tribal government—the real Sioux, Dakota, and Lakota tribal governments...
TEACHING BOTH SIDES Israeli and Palestinian professors have drafted pamphlets setting the two groups' competing histories side by side, asking students to draw their own conclusions. The Israeli and Palestinian ministries of education have yet to sanction the texts, but backers hope that schools--on both sides--will quietly start using them...
...Texas indictment accuses DeLay of transferring donated campaign funds from one of his own sources to another arm of the Republican National Committee, an action that violates campaign finance law. The scope of DeLays unethical behavior, however, spans far beyond the indictment itself. DeLay has already been formally sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee for promising a retiring congressman to endorse his son for election to his seat if he voted for President Bushs Medicare plan. That same sanction also admonished him for improperly attempting to use the Federal Aviation Administrations resources to locate Texas lawmakers who had holed...
...Tamil Tigers would dispute that tag, of course. Like other guerrillas and suicide bombers, they prefer the term ?freedom fighters.? But the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (L.T.T.E.) are proscribed by the U.S. and the U.N. as terrorists, and even without that official sanction, their record in 22 years of civil war with the Sinhalese of southern Sri Lanka speaks for itself. They've assassinated the heads of several branches of the Sri Lankan armed forces, a president, and a former prime minister of India (Rajiv Gandhi); they've blown up half the national airline and held off two national...