Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada Island has been a sovereign country, Mr. Speaker: it displays all the proper characteristics of a free nation and has acted accordingly," the member of parliament says. "Therefore, I implore parliament to agree that Canada be emancipated from the remnants of colonialism...
...take risks for peace." Just as Reagan has made the sale an issue of his own leadership and credibility abroad, the Saudis see the purchase as a matter of national honor. Said Haig: "To deny Saudi Arabia this basic means of self-defense is to deny it the sovereign status and respect essential to an enduring partnership...
Burnout has a way of turning the sovereign self (as we thought of it once, long ago) into a victim, submissive, but passive-aggressive, as psychologists say; it is like a declaration of bankruptcy-necessary sometimes, but also somewhat irresponsible and undignified. It is a million-dollar wound, an excuse, a ticket out. The era of "grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile...
Since the prosecutor had known that the testimony was false, Zimmerman believed that New York should compensate hIn for wrongful imprisonment. The doctrine of sovereign immunity bars most such suits against a state, so Zimmerman pressed the New York legislature to pass a special law allowing him to sue. Three times the legislators voted the bill, and three times then Governor Nelson Rockefeller vetoed it. Last week Governor Hugh Carey signed the fourth bill. Lawyers on both sides agree that Zimmerman is likely to win his case. The only question is whether he will be awarded as much...
...their military operations, when State Department Counselor Robert McFarlane met with Begin last week to discuss the use of American weapons. But the Administration was dismayed that the Prime Minister offered not even symbolic concessions in the five-hour session. Said Begin afterward: "If anyone should think that one sovereign country should consult another about a specific military operation to defend its citizens, that would be absurd." Begin neither intimated that Israel would engage in soul searching before undertaking such a raid again nor signaled any possible movement on the stalled negotiations with Egypt about Palestinian autonomy. McFarlane left with...