Word: validates
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...potential PR disaster was averted by President Medvedev issuing a decree to automatically grant visas to all British fans holding a valid ticket to the game. Obtaining visas had become more difficult in recent months as Moscow-London relations sank to a low ebb in a series of tit-for-tat moves following Britain rejecting Russia's demands to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky and Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, while Russia turned down British demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the murder of former Russian security officer Aleksander Litvinenko. It would be premature, however, to judge the blanket visa...
...vote to President Robert Mugabe's 43.2%. That means that, officially, no candidate has won an outright victory of more than 50%, a scenario which, under Zimbabwean electoral law, mandates a second round run-off within three weeks. "Since no candidate has received the majority of the valid vote cast... a second election shall be held on a date to be advised by the commission," chief elections officer Lovemore Sekeramayi told reporters in Harare...
...that the process is impartial and consistent.Another change caucus states could adopt is one Maine allows: Voters who can’t get to the caucus can cast an absentee ballot at a caucus to register their initial preference. That’s an easy way to meet the valid criticism that caucuses disenfranchise people who can’t attend.Caucuses could also be held on Saturday nights instead of week nights, or alternatively voting could be allowed during a longer window of time to enable greater participation.But big changes to the nominating processes rarely win approval. They are fine...
...doggedly pursues them throughout his reconstruction of Hogue’s story. Samuels has no fear presenting the darker aspects of our culture to us, declaring, “Christmas is a child’s first introduction to lying”—a curious, but certainly valid, take on a favorite American holiday. Along with the myth of the self-made man, Samuels examines the personal responsibility of those who believed Hogue’s lies. Essential to Hogue’s success—along with his gift to run incredibly fast for incredibly long distances?...
...something you can make it,” “I believe in power,” and “I try to make things where there can be no aesthetic judgment,” further call into question Koons’ artistic validity by evading the questions and criticisms of the audience. He provides no valid or substantial reason why, if he is so concerned with making his art something for everyone, something that connects to the external world, he doesn’t at least participate in the reality of its construction?...