Word: invalidates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into a valid marriage. In a little-noticed speech two weeks ago to the Vatican's marriage tribunal, John Paul said that psychological theories pressed upon judges are "not always correct," and insisted that judges must reach a "moral certainty," not just a "probability," that a marriage was invalid. Continued relaxation, warned the Pope, would "allow divorce, under another name, to be tolerated"-a direct quote from a 1973 Vatican warning to the U.S. bishops...
...Harvard's actions, the leaders of this institution will conclude they are doing the right thing. If professors or administrators disagree with students, they should try to convince them they are wrong. And even if most graduates become doctors, lawyers and businessmen, their concern and their ideas are not invalid. The apostasy of the individual does not discredit the cause...
...cuckold and a figure of ridicule for his enemies. The king withdrew much of his support, and toward the end of his life Moliére felt that his talent had dried up. He contracted tuberculosis, and one night, after playing the lead in his last play, The Imaginary Invalid, he collapsed and died...