Word: withholding
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...task of persuading the Israelis and the Palestinians to renew peace talks, never easy, is now complicated by the Palestinians' new "national unity" government, which will be dominated by the militant organization Hamas. Earlier, Rice had exhibited discretion, saying she would withhold judgment on the controversial Palestinian government until it is formed in five weeks. But her caution, and any leeway for bargaining, was undercut by news from Washington. Soon after her arrival in Jerusalem on Saturday, the Israeli press reported that President George W. Bush already had assured Olmert that the U.S. will never deal with the new government...
...been questioned so far, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard.) They are also investigating whether another law, which says that all donations of more than $10,000 must be declared, has been broken. In recent weeks, police appear to have shifted the focus of their investigation to attempts to withhold information by Downing Street employees. On Dec. 19, Ruth Turner-Blair's director of government relations-was questioned on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Turner also denies any wrongdoing...
...that she didn't think she was. Voted the "most beautiful woman of all time" by the readers of New Women last year, Audrey had no high opinion of herself, her looks, her performance skills. Perhaps she got that from her mother Ella, who could lavish or, more often, withhold love...
...trial--one that has stirred some controversy. The President's Council on Bioethics recently condemned his study as unethical, saying that erasing memories risks undermining a person's true identity. Pitman rejects such notions as a bias against psychiatry. After all, he says, no one suggests that doctors should withhold morphine from people in acute pain on the grounds it might take away part of the experience...
...least one Lowell resident thought that the University’s shame should spring from a different source. In an e-mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after the pest survey itself, Eric B. Linsker ’07 urged his fellow residents to withhold their feedback. The “genocidal language” of the survey—specifically the decision to refer to cockroaches as “pests”—led readers “to forget that American cockroaches and house mice are, like us, animals...