Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control both the testing and the use of nuclear weapons under specific and supervised international disarmament agreement. 3) In terms of our national weapons policy, it is the responsibility of specific officials of the Government -notably the Atomic Energy Commission, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the President-to weigh, at all times, the proper emphasis on various types and sizes of weapons, their testing and development. Such emphasis is necessarily subject to constant review and reexamination. This specific matter is not a subject for detailed public discussion-for obvious security reasons...
Doesn't the cost of such a restoraton really out-weigh the importance of the sentimental attachment a few, and increasingly few, alumni hold for the building...
...were to secure the future of our country. I considered the assassination of many individuals, having decided that they constituted the main obstacle between our country and its future; I began to look into their various crimes and to take it upon myself to judge ... I would weigh them, and pass the verdict...
...Saint, one of the best stories in the collection, starts with the words: "When I was seventeen years old, I lost my religious faith." Such a loss would weigh heavily on Pritchett in his critical capacity, but in one of his short stories, it is a sure sign of gusto to follow. Ten pages after the loss has been reported, the bereaved youth is floating disconsolately downstream in a punt, while the evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold...
Their use of the gag technique in Parliament will weigh against the Liberals in the next election campaign. The opposition parties, sounding off at a steadily rising pitch against U.S. financial control of Canadian industry, will belabor the government for its support of Trans-Canada. But if Alberta gas is gushing through to Winnipeg this year, the government will be able to point to a notable industrial asset gained, and to argue that the end justified the means...