Word: reinterprets
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...interpreted" the Basic Law before? Yes, but in an utterly different circumstance. After the handover in 1997, thousands of mainlanders with a Hong Kong parent demanded the right of abode in Hong Kong. The territory's courts ruled in their favor. But the Hong Kong government asked Beijing to reinterpret the law to prevent the migrations, which it did. In that case, Hong Kong surrendered its judicial autonomy to China; Beijing merely obliged. Legal experts and libertarians were appalled but not the general public, because most Hong Kongers don't want to see more mainlanders coming to the territory...
...dumbest line not written by George Lucas). I’ll probably also skip Dogville, because I’m not inclined to check out another Von Trier, even if he’s spinning Our Town. If I have to watch a Dogme man reinterpret Thornton Wilder, I’ll wait for Thomas Vinterberg to take a deranged stab at The Matchmaker...
...building up across the Atlantic, which could soon bring storms to Washington. This week he lashed out at what he called "revisionist historians" questioning the administration's case for war in Iraq. The metaphor was an unfortunate one for Bush, in the sense that revisionist historians are those that reinterpret evidence to challenge existing judgements on history - but in the case of Iraq's alleged WMD, the problem is that the evidence on which the administration's case was based has either failed to materialize, or in some cases simply been negated. And among those "revising" the history...
...essence, Farmer was fighting to convince the WHO to reinterpret what they saw as a hard bottom line and trying to impose his personal, hands-on approach on an entire system...
...Taha's fate demonstrates how, in most Muslim countries, it remains all but impossible to reinterpret for modern times a text considered to be the literal word of God. But in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe, an effort is in full swing to separate the eternal message of Islam from its medieval cultural baggage. Some of the fruits of that effort can be sampled in Loi d'Allah, Loi des Hommes (Law of Allah, Law of Men; Albin Michel) an extended dialogue in which Muslim sociologist Leïla Babès and Tareq Oubrou, rector...