Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right to withhold confessional information because confession is for the purpose of absolution-a judicial...
...plan for 48 hours to give the NATO Council a chance to calm the growing bitterness between NATO Partners Greece and Turkey. In a concentrated diplomatic effort, all the other 13 NATO powers-led by the U.S.-pressed the Greeks and Turks to at least consider the plan and withhold violence that could endanger the alliance...
...vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...
...Publicity Director refused to name any specific cases in which the dispute had influenced individuals to withhold contributions. He did, however, explain that "controversies can't help but hit some people who feel strongly about these things...
Against Rome, Luther denied the church's administration over God's grace -either to grant it or withhold it. Not church, he held, but scripture is the true channel of grace-the Word and man's will lead to faith, and faith in Jesus Christ will redeem man from his sins. So sure did he feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers...