Word: sanction
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...English language. The poll, conducted by the Plain English Campaign among its 5,000 supporters, identified other terms deemed past their sell-by date: "to be honest," "like" and "thinking outside the box." Fortunately for the unimaginative - and headline writers the world over - some old favorites escaped sanction. There's light at the end of the tunnel, after...
...survival of specific individuals. Under those circumstances, efforts by the PA, Egypt and others interested parties to broker some form of truce may become that much more difficult. And that, in turn effectively ends any prospect in the immediate future for a peace process that requires Hamas sanction, leaving the PA as a lame duck and the Islamists ascendant in the street...
Chen has added fuel to this tinderbox by including a referendum with the election. He is asking voters to sanction a military buildup in response to China's deployment of missiles across the Taiwanese Strait. He has also said that if he wins, he will revise Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should...
...years, Europe's antitrust czar and his staff have toiled to build a watertight case against the computer software giant, filing three formal complaints alleging that the company abused its monopolistic position and harmed competitors and consumers. But last Tuesday, just a day after E.U. member states approved tough sanctions against the Redmond powerhouse, Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels with an eleventh-hour settlement offer that directly addressed many of the European complaints. Some of Monti's staff argued forcefully that it would be smarter to settle now rather than risk a potentially lengthy court battle...
...ring program” approved at the meeting allows the council to sanction a single class ring model, and anyone who orders the ring will receive the graduation memento at an official ceremony...