Word: withhold
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...opposition-party lawmakers recently took the floor of India's Parliament, unzipped a black leather bag and, with TV cameras rolling, hauled out stacks of 1,000-rupee notes. The money, they claimed, represented bribes they had been offered by allies of the country's ruling Congress Party to withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase politics" are nothing new in India, it just wasn't cricket to theatrically air dirty laundry in such a public forum. Afterward, Somnath Chatterjee, India's lower-house speaker, called it "a very...
...Moreno-Ocampo tells it, his pursuit of al-Bashir over the past three years has come in the face of diplomatic obstruction and political accommodation. It was, in his eyes, predictable that the Sudanese would withhold visas, deny access to crime scenes and establish bogus trials in an effort to obviate the need for the ICC. But what he found surprising and dispiriting was that high-ranking international diplomats ignored, and even seemed to discourage, his efforts. The U.N. instead tried to negotiate the deployment of additional peacekeepers to Darfur as a solution to the crisis. But Sudan rejected...
...recognized by creditors abroad. ''Mexico requires special treatment,'' said Angel Gurria, head of foreign credit at the Finance Ministry. ''But bankers balk at setting a precedent.'' Many of those balkers come from Mexico's potential backers to the north. Former U.S. Ambassador John Gavin reportedly urged American bankers to withhold loans from Mexico until the country began to show signs of serious / economic reform. The Administration firmly maintains that Mexico cannot simply make domestic cuts, as it did during its debt crisis in 1982, but must swallow its pride and open itself up to more free trade and foreign investment...
...should be delivered directly to the President. But mine was the minority opinion in that office that day. The FAA, with the backing of the Secretary of Transportation, agreed to send a copy of the document to the National Security Adviser but remained convinced it was best to withhold the report from the public indefinitely. dot officials insisted that I hold the report; they were requesting that the document be classified...
Those salesmen who already had outside addresses do have a legitimate quarrel. They can argue, and rightly, that the University’s Solicitation Committee should not withdraw or withhold their right to sell in dormitories simply because they have not joined a firm which offers them no particular benefits. It seems clear that such “join-or-lose-your-franchise” threats have been at least implied, if not explicitly stated...