Word: warranting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bursts from helicopter gunships overhead. Troops from the U.S., Pakistan, Morocco, France and Italy searched for Aidid. Prodded by Washington, the U.N. wanted to punish him for ordering an attack June 5 that killed 23 blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers from Pakistan. By last weekend, under authority of an arrest warrant issued by Howe, the U.N. forces had not caught Aidid despite house-to- house searches, but were satisfied they had him on the run. Five U.N. troops, four Moroccans and one Pakistani, were killed, and more than 100 Somali militia died during the raid...
...occupation of his territory by U.S. troops diminished his influence, making him wary, then openly hostile. As his dreams of a presidency faded, said a relief worker, "Aidid was just itching to push the U.N. to the limit." While he never expected his belligerence to culminate in an international warrant for his arrest, he preferred to fight rather than slip into anonymity...
...Alliance will, from time to time, sponsor forums to examine public policy issues, encourage public debate over policy direction and present the facts of particularly confusing issues which warrant exploration and full disclosure. We will analyze the City's budget priorities, appropriations and the actual expenditures in an attempt to ensure effective and efficient local government...
...road. The same vehicle pursued her in a wheel-screeching, hilltop chase until she got away by shutting off her lights. Then there were the constant phone calls to her home from someone who only breathed over the line, and a false newspaper report that an arrest warrant had been issued in her name. She began to fear for her life. "It was as if we were living in the Soviet Union," she recalls. "My parents couldn't believe this was happening...
...prisoner's legal appeals were being quickly exhausted. Court after court had turned him down, and his first "serious" execution warrant was issued for May 1, 1990. In an effort to save Shaw, Donald Wolff, a prominent St. Louis attorney assigned to the case, brought in Illinois psychologist Daniel Cuneo, a political conservative usually extremely demanding on fitness matters, to determine whether Bobby was "competent" to be executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after...