Word: staunched
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Since it was formed as the judicial arm of the fledgling United Nations 40 years ago, the World Court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, has received staunch support from the U.S. But when the 15-judge panel in the Hague agreed last November to hear charges from Nicaragua that the Reagan Administration was directing and supplying the anti-Sandinista contra rebels, the U.S. insisted that such conflicts were beyond the court's authority. Last week, as the judges were deliberating over the Sandinista case without U.S. participation, Washington's complaints about "political abuse" of the ICJ came...
...staunch supporter of the recently developed philosophy of New Federalism, Edwards believes states and local governments should pick up some of the tab for the social programs Americans desire...
...present internal revenue code, 2,052 pages long and decades in the making, is for some the symbol of government bureaucracy at its most inefficient. But it has the staunch support of diverse special interest groups which benefit from tax deductions for everything from cow breeding to three-martini business luncheons...
Thundrous applause greeted Sylester "Rambo/Rocky" Stallone and his svelte fiance Brigitte Nielsen, both staunch Reagan supportors, it appears. Then came Don DeFore, and Esther Williams, and Juanita Booker, and Roy Rogers, and Chad Everett, and Ephraim "FBI" Zimbalist, and Fred MacMurray, and Charlton Heston...and the list goes on. Reagan's Ambassador to Mexico was there, too, but he was upstaged by his actress wife...
...conservatives, he is a staunch moralist determined to see that the U.S. legal system protects the nation's traditional values. To progressives, he is an overreaching ideologue intent on using the Justice Department to dismantle two decades of legal advances. After just six months in office, Edwin Meese has proved to be one of the most blunt-spoken and activist Attorneys General since the New Deal. At his ceremonial swearing-in last March, the country's chief lawyer made his new role clear: "This department will be fiercely independent in . . . upholding the law. But this is not inconsistent with conscientiously...