Word: withdrawnness
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...cases that have long favored the deep pockets of the state doing battle with poorly trained, poorly paid and poorly funded public defender offices. The fund, according to the Illinois treasurer's office, stands at roughly $4.5 million. Of that, more than a quarter - $1.6 million - has been withdrawn...
...again and again he overreached. He railed against feminists and homosexuals, denouncing in the most divisive terms all those who he believed would undermine traditional family values--including, most notoriously, the purple, purse-carrying Teletubby Tinky Winky, whom he accused of corrupting children. When Falwell suggested that God had withdrawn his loving protection from America on 9/11 because of the offenses of gays and feminists and the A.C.L.U., he was not saying anything new--but many in the audience were now listening...
...nine-page “Draft Final Report” on general education is submitted to the Faculty Council. The report’s recommendations are in line with those of the April 2004 report. It is quickly withdrawn after being criticized by early readers for being overly vague and lacking a defining vision. By April, the Committee on General Education has pushed back the expected release date of their report to fall...
Last year, when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed a very modest reform to address the 21.5 percent youth unemployment rate that would have given young employees slightly less job security, widespread student street demonstrations caused the reform bill to be withdrawn. The obvious conclusion drawn from this experience by French politicians was that any further moves toward reform would have to be deferred until the Presidential election and perhaps a fresh round of parliamentary elections. (Sarkozy himself, seeing a chance to undermine his rival, Villepin, opposed the reform.) As for the French youth, a recent poll shows that...
...when the military wielded still greater powers than it does today-powers that diminished, thanks to E.U.-mandated democratic reforms. After the military made its announcement on Friday, the government argued forcefully that the military had no right to interfere. "There can be no question of my candidacy being withdrawn," said Gul. Such boldness would have been unthinkable a decade ago for fear of immediate military retribution. The same is true of Sunday's massive popular demonstration in Istanbul, which took aim not only at the AKP and fears of creeping Islamicization but also, notably, at the military...