Word: swaying
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...NCAA ruled last November that Llopis could not play for Harvard because he had played for a professional team in Spain. His first appeal in December failed to sway a special NCAA Eligibility Committee...
...orders. "Shoot to kill" was the command for dealing with people who tried to escape across the border, and in the eyes of Heinrich's supervisors his actions were not merely legal but commendable. Three years later, Heinrich, 27, lives in the same Berlin, but a different government holds sway and new laws prevail. Now he is, retroactively, a felon. Last week he was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison -- specifically, the trial judge said, for following the laws of his country rather than asserting his conscience. Said Judge Theodor Seidel: "Not everything that...
Small wonder that some U.S. analysts see a bruising battle ahead. But both Bush and Shamir are running for re-election this year, and neither relishes the prospect of a fight with an ally who can sway domestic voters from afar. Members of Congress, who must approve the guarantees, know they will suffer electoral consequences if the decision pits their loyalty to Israel against their commitment to the peace process. So in Washington, if not in the Middle East, compromise appears to be at hand...
Long-term improvement in Sino-U.S. relations will have to wait until a new generation takes over in Beijing. The old men in charge there now, like those in Vietnam and North Korea, are veterans of the revolutions that put Marxism in power. They intend to hold sway until they die. President Yang, 84, reportedly told his colleagues that the Soviet Union fell apart because it had no "old revolutionaries" left...
...company. Asked how they could possibly have been unaware that they were involved with a criminal enterprise, the two pointed out that B.C.C.I. had also managed to fool the Bank of England, Price Waterhouse and the Bank of America. But their polished responses did not appear to sway many members. Referring to Clifford's widely quoted 1981 description of Ronald Reagan, Wisconsin's Roth said, "I do not believe you are an amiable dunce...