Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military's backing for the constitutional process was anything but certain when Lafontant initiated his coup. The swaggering ex-Interior Minister had defiantly returned from five years of exile in July, but the army had failed to act on a warrant for his arrest, even after he declared that Aristide would never take office as President. The defeat of the takeover attempt apparently owes a great deal to U.S. diplomacy. Ambassador Alvin Adams and other officials have spent months trying to convince the military that staying out of politics is in its best interest. When the soldiers heeded the advice...
Blacker was editor of The Belmont Citizen in the early 1970s. After leaving that post for Harvard, she became active in town government, serving as a town meeting member and as the current vice chair of the warrant committee...
...Eunuchs title comes from Jesus' teaching in Matthew 19: 12 about men becoming eunuchs (by which he meant forswearing sex) "for the sake of the kingdom of heaven." Catholicism uses these words as a warrant for requiring priestly celibacy. In Ranke-Heinemann's reading, the saying is linked to the preceding verses in which Jesus directs his disciples not to remarry after divorce. The book asserts that twisted hostility toward sex underlies the church's stand against not only married priests and remarriage for the divorced but also birth control, premarital sex and women clergy...
...immorality goes, feminist visions of sexual liberation may be threatening to some, but we (like Madonna) find the rampant violence and degradation of women on MTV's airwaves truly repugnant. The images in Whitesnake's "Is This Love?" or Warrant's "Sweet Cherry Pie"--both aired by MTV--are potentially far more threatening to American children than "Justify My Love...
...Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts is sponsoring a bill that would make it illegal to send fax solicitations or automatically dialed, prerecorded phone pitches to people who have notified a clearinghouse that they do not want them. The White House says the number of complaints doesn't seem to warrant such legislation...