Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorneys may reject up to 16 potential jurors by preemptory challenge without justifying the dismissals...
...have not had their basic premises offended, and therefore have not examined them, in too long." I don't know any adults -myself included-who don't have their basic premises offended nearly every day, and aren't constantly being called to reexamine, defend or reject them. Where in the world are these sheltered adults about whom Schickel speaks? Monty Python is so funny I will probably see the movie anyway...
Carter Administration officials vehemently reject Kissinger's complaint that they overthrew Somoza. The Sandinistas did that themselves. All the U.S. did was to administer a diplomatic coup de grâce in order to end the civil war. To preserve the status quo in Iran or Nicaragua-i.e., keep the Shah or Somoza in power-would probably have required direct military intervention, with G.I.s fighting alongside the Shah's imperial troops and Somoza's national guard. Even then, the Islamic and Sandinista revolutions might well have triumphed, leaving American prestige and strategic interests far more badly...
House members voted 252-163 to reject the amendment to the $42.1 billion defense authorization bill, and instead instructed President Carter to study the matter...
Medical Area workers voted to reject District 65's bid to represent them in July 1977 after a three-year campaign by the union...