Word: statement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...written statement in the program, Offner noted the irony in awarding a peace award to "a group that rallies...loudly against low-wage labor...
Beyond Our Normal Differences (BOND) is a group "concerned with providing a social space for Harvard undergraduates...where members can feel more comfortable with issues pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity," the founders wrote in a statement. "The point of the group is not to talk about sexual orientation but to have social events both on and off campus...
...opening to humiliate a President they could not topple, even if that means discarding the tattered remains of the bipartisan consensus on foreign affairs. Last year, when Clinton ordered the bombing of Iraq on the eve of his impeachment, Senate majority leader Trent Lott was unafraid to issue a statement questioning the timing of the attack. In April, House Republicans defeated by a tie vote a measure in support of the NATO campaign against Serbia...
...primary meaning, from the root word jhd, is to strive or exert oneself. . . . What is clear, though, is that striving in the right path involves foremost one's struggle to reorient one's own self to live according to how God would have His creation live," reads the statement prepared...
Maybe it would have been better simply to scuttle the vote in order to save face. Maybe the treaty should even have been ratified as a symbolic statement of American leadership in nuclear deescalation; it is, after all, better than nothing...