Word: pursuant
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Public agencies, federal, state and local--upon which Harvard extensively relies for both economic and academic purposes--regularly use their economic leverage pursuant to law to enforce political, economic and ethical policies. Affirmative action, tax and student financial aid laws, the conditions imposed upon the grant of research funds, and in the case of public institutions, their basic operating budgets, are among the more obvious examples...
...keeping with established practices. the task of developing precise increases in tuition and other charges was left to Dean Rosovsky pursuant to the broad responsibility given to Harvard deans to prepare their budgets and manage the resources of their respective faculties. Since Dean Rosovsky's proposed increases were consistent with the overall policies discussed by the Corporation in the fall, and with anticipated changes at other comparable institutions, the proposals were approved without extended debate. President...
...massively miscalculated the outcry that would follow its ultimatum; had Ottawa foreseen the uproar, it would probably have brought the issue to a head much earlier and backed down when resistance got stiff. What Ottawa did instead was continually to cite its original pledge to welcome all competing countries "pursuant to the normal regulations." This interpretation of Canada's laws regulating foreign visitors has allowed Ottawa's officials to justify the stance they have now taken...
Senate leaders agreed to introduce S. Res. 411 because, as Mansfield said, the Senate should claim "its traditional privilege that information secured by employees of the Senate pursuant to their official duties may not be revealed without the consent of the Senate. Having supplied the information relevant to the use of the frank, the Senate should resist any further intrusion in the operations of the Senate and individual Senate offices," Mansfield said...
...therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Rich ard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through Au gust...