Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their numbers. Police believe that no more than six persons, split between two small Provisional I.R.A. cells, are involved. The war of nerves, as Scotland Yard sees it, is a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the badly scattered Proves to make the British so fed up that they will withdraw their troops from Ulster. But the bombings could also backfire and stiffen British resolve to stick it out. Late last week, the I.R.A., which had previously refused to confirm or deny responsibility for the bombings, virtually admitted its guilt. In a statement addressed to Prime Minister Edward Heath, the Proves...
...involving recently reacquired Okinawa, where 4,840 men have been stationed in anticipation of approval by the Diet of a bill authorizing a new defense command on the island. But the Sapporo ruling, has put a new obstacle in the path of this legislation. Now Premier Kakuei Tanaka cannot withdraw the men without violating the obligations undertaken in the U.S.-Japan reversion agreement. And he cannot keep them there without arousing howls of protest from the Socialists and Communists in the Diet...
...Each day all twelve lobbyists receive a complete rundown of all the bills being proposed on either the senate or assembly floor. A bill falls into one of three categories−oppose, favor, watching. If the lobbyists are opposed to a bill, they try to persuade the sponsor to withdraw it. Each month the lobby puts out a score card of the upcoming bills and its attitude toward them...
...spoke for his fellows when he described it as an "explosion in a shingle factory." Crowds had to be restrained from damaging the painting. Back home, Futurists and Cubists considered the naked body an improper subject for artists. Even the Duchamp freres, Jacques and Raymond, asked their brother to withdraw either the painting or the title. Duchamp removed Nude from a Paris show, but the act was, he said, "a turning point in my life. I saw that I would not be very much interested in groups after that...
...University believes American companies should withdraw from Namibia, in accordance with United Nations and U.S. government recommendations...