Word: suspender
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...with a heavy fine just because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions. The duo's defiance is reminiscent of the U.S. going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate, isn't it? People may disagree on the relative merits of these cases - a Parisian or Berliner might point out that the stability pact has been...
...large part by donors with pockets much deeper than the $2,000 cap on individual contributions, there is no other choice but to maximize Democratic spending ability. For the moment, Dean and Kerry are right to raise and spend as much as they can. Democrats can’t suspend their full-force pursuit of the White House in the name of public financing, even if it is a respectable and worthy ideal...
When the federal court's deadline to remove the monument from the lobby ran out in August, Moore's fellow state supreme court justices had no choice but to suspend him. To the fury of thousands of protesters, the monument was heaved into storage and Moore ordered to stand trial for ethics violations. Though the chief justice was described as risking his career in defense of his beliefs, it may turn out that the greater risk was taken by the nine-member panel of judges, lawyers and citizens from both parties who last week voted unanimously to oust him. Three...
...political crisis sweeping Sri Lanka, personal animosity has triumphed over good governance?and could even jeopardize the fragile peace. President Chandrika Kumaratunga's moves last week to sack three senior ministers, suspend Parliament and impose a state of emergency?all while her Prime Minister was overseas?represented, even her party members admit, a naked power grab rather than an attempt to protect "national security" as she claimed. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's return to Colombo three days later and his triumphant procession to the cheers of tens of thousands were, his supporters agree, premature victory celebrations. To the north...
Chandrika Kumaratunga President, 58 ? Elected: November 1994 ? Powers: Appoints the Prime Minister. Can suspend or dissolve Parliament, call elections and declare state of emergency. Commands the military ? Style: Regal (her father and mother were both Prime Ministers), combative, and tough (her father and husband were both assassinated). Friends say she became even more resolute after losing the use of one eye in a Tiger bomb attack in 1999 ? View of Prime Minister: That he stole the peace process she started and is conceding too much to the Tigers...