Word: warranted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Assad and persuaded him to join in a plan of limited war. The two leaders also staged a reconciliation with Jordan's King Hussein and accepted him as a limited partner in the coming battle; they apparently agreed, however, that Jordan was too vulnerable to Israeli airpower to warrant direct Jordanian intervention. The Palestinians were not directly involved in the planning, but Sadat announced that he favored the establishment of a Palestinian state. Both Hussein and Sadat then made gestures of friendship to the Palestinians in the name of Arab unity; Hussein released 970 political prisoners from Jordanian jails...
...economist Paul A. Samuelson, who received the prize in 1970, jokingly told newsmen the presence of four Nobel medals for Economics in Cambridge was enough to warrant an anti-trust suit...
...avoid the prospect of the nation's Vice President sitting in a cell, Richardson suggested a new approach. He urged Judge Hoffman to let the grand jury press on with its investigation and bring in an indictment, should the evidence warrant one, which would stop the statute of limitations from running out. Then, instead of quickly going to trial, and if the Vice President agreed, the Justice Department would give the House of Representatives a chance to impeach Agnew. Only if the House elected not to would Richardson move ahead with the prosecution. Judge Hoffman is expected to rule...
...considered by a grand jury; thus he is unprepared to combat them. Even if he is prepared, he often gets no clear opportunity to present a defense. Grand jurors, as Judge Hoffman pointed out last week, decide only whether "the credible evidence before you, if unexplained and uncontradicted, would warrant a conviction." If the prosecution's story adds up to enough, the defendant always gets his chance to respond at a trial...
...plot were circulated in Mexico by one Richard Alexander Zander, 31, an ex-convict and accused kidnaper who fled the U.S. last month while on parole from McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington State, where he had served time for transporting stolen goods. A U.S. court has issued a warrant for his arrest as a fugitive from justice...