Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impediments to Marriage. Provisions of the proposed canon: bishops may withdraw Episcopal recognition of a previous marriage, remarry divorced persons after one year, by referring their decision to "impediments," in the presence of which the Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects...
...heard the ringing of the hand bell, went to see what was happening. As soon as the Greeks saw our soldier they fired at him, intending to kill him. Our soldier, saving himself, took position and with his two other comrades have fired twice and forced the Greeks to withdraw...
...Chiang Kai-shek's demand that the Communists "withdraw from areas where they threaten peace and obstruct communications," the Yenan Communist radio retorted: "What Chiang means, in a nutshell, is 'Countrymen, prepare for slaughter; it is all for your own good.'" The Communist answer: a "mobilization" call (for an army of 1,000,000 regulars, 2,000,000 guerrillas) and announcement of a "provisional supreme administration for democratic [Communist] Manchuria...
...Generalissimo Stalin, 50,000 Tuvinians indited a note of thanks for allowing them to withdraw from the capitalist world and enter the Soviet Union. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the country's former independence. Tannu Tuva (pop. 65,000) is a Mongolian farming, mining and cattle raising area about the size of Nevada, between Siberia and Outer Mongolia. Its assumption to Russia was a fact unknown to the rest of the world until it read the names of Tuvinian delegates on the election lists to the Supreme Soviet last October...
Paris' Galerie Allard immediately called a court official to witness that the paintings had been taken down and the show closed. One of its officers guessed that Chirico "has been looking for this incident. . . It may also be that he is trying to withdraw from art collectors his first paintings...