Word: relenting
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...Your country and your President are in dire need of an attorney who will do the tough job of providing independent counsel,” the letter says. It calls on Gonzales to “relent from this reckless path, and begin to restore respect for the rule of law we all learned to love many years...
Zeckhauser, who has not been able to communicate with his former student in the past five years, said that it was unlikely that Yang would relent in his fight for a democratic China...
That prediction is almost a certainty because neither of Gorbachev's crushing problems is about to go away. The referendum will do nothing to force the separatist republics to relent, and without basic reform the economy can only deteriorate. After withdrawing 50- and 100-ruble notes from circulation and setting the KGB to examining the books of offices with foreign connections, the government's next "reform" will be to raise prices on consumer goods an average...
...militias from the air. That's doable. A congressional expert estimates that it would require 12 to 18 fighter jets, probably French and American, based in neighboring Chad. If shooting down a few Sudanese planes (and thus eliminating much of the Sudanese air force) didn't make al-Bashir relent, NATO would probably have to bomb Khartoum. And while doing so, it would have to begin preparations for a ground invasion...
...deadline approaching, the French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said he would fly to Khartoum to pressure Sudan's government to allow troops in; Kofi Annan declared that Sudan would bear full responsibility for the growing humanitarian crisis; and the A.U., which rarely criticizes its own, said Khartoum should relent. At week's end, there was the hint of a fudge: the A.U. force might stay on as a transition to a U.N. force. It won't stop the killing - the A.U. soldiers are ill-equipped and backed by the weakest of mandates - but it creates another few months...