Word: sanctions
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...potential candidate either authorize or disavow a campaign committee within 15 days. That period can be extended to as long as 30 days if the candidate delays responding. Reagan at first wanted to take advantage of this time and allow Laxalt's committee to begin work without official sanction. "I wasn't comfortable with that," said Laxalt. "I felt if we were going to move ahead, let's do it in a straightforward fashion and not be cute about it." He told the President on Thursday he wanted explicit authorization to get under...
...Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens and George Eliot, nee Marian Evans. Three of the unions were devoid of passion, one degenerated into widely publicized scandal, and the sole happy one was the most shocking of all. George Eliot dared to live with a man without the sanction of either religion or the state...
...traditional wifely virtues. Love and duty are as one to her, so when Oscar dies, she allows herself to receive the attentions of the town's righteous young bishop, Edvard Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Beyond her sense of responsibility is a feeling her children can neither understand nor sanction: Vergerus kindles an erotic flame she never knew with dear, fudgy Oscar. When Emilie, Fanny and Alexander move into the Vergerus household they find that it allows no other light...
...those alleged to be under Soviet control--while quietly applying diplomatic pressure on repressive U.S. allies is an untenable one. An effective human rights policy would utilize completely the opposite tactics, since the U.S. naturally has greater leverage in promoting human rights through open criticism and economic sanction with those nations that are close allies, not with those that are our military and ideological opponents...
...State Department report attributes incidents of political violence to "uncontrolled elements...operating without the sanction of the Government." However, the Argentina regime cannot escape responsibility for such right-wing security forces as long as they continue operating without government efforts to discourage them. The State of Siege, in effect since 1974, continues to be enforced in Argentina, allowing the government arbitrarily to detain people for indefinite periods without due process, and to restrict the exercise of fundamental rights...