Word: submit
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...always posed a problem for the country's rulers. The Basque language (spoken only by about 20% of the region's people) is unique. The Basques have always resented government from afar, a tradition that goes as far back as the 8th century, when they did not submit to the Moorish invasion that conquered most of Spain...
...Iran. The remaining $1 billion will go into a special fund to cover awards by an arbitration tribunal meeting at The Hague. (Iran is pledged to replenish this fund so as to keep a minimum balance of $500 million.) It is to this body that U.S. companies must now submit their claims against Iran. The tribunal, comprising three Iranians, three Americans and three neutral arbitrators, met at The Hague last week to set up ground rules, but will not begin processing claims until October...
Reduced Penalties. Polluters would no longer be required to use state-of-the-art technology to achieve the lowest possible emission rates. States would no longer face federal sanctions for failure to submit approvable antipollution programs...
Then there is the refusal to submit to external schemes or narratives. The Gates of Hell cannot be read as clearly as a Renaissance fresco or a medieval Last Judgment. It is less about divine doom than the condition of secular despair, mauvaise foi, the unrooting of the self-a vast and almost illegibly complex dirge that touches now and then on the original imagery of the Inferno but does not, in any strict sense, illustrate it. Yet its formal properties-the sudden shifts of scale, the aggressive protrusions of figures from the bronze skin, the sense of strain...
...proposal, Islamabad would immediately be allowed to buy U.S. weapons, including F-16 fighter planes. Starting in 1982, the U.S. would grant Pakistan economic development loans and military sales credits worth $3 billion over the next five years. President Carter suspended aid in April 1979, after Pakistan refused to submit its nuclear development program, widely considered capable of producing atomic bombs, to international inspection. The Reagan Administration views Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan, as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the region and argues that building a security relationship with the dictatorial and unpopular regime of General Mohammed...