Word: withdrawnness
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...Ahmadinejad? The Parliament cannot on its own dump him, and he has a little over two years left in his term. Impeachment proceedings require approval of the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who has yet to repudiate Ahmadinejad. "If Parliament senses for a second that Khamenei has withdrawn his support, the government will fall," says Atrianfar. A politician close to Rafsanjani tells Time, "Most of the decision makers and the lite are against him. If he becomes less popular, even the Supreme Leader will withdraw his support...
...ironically this bountiful confidence in students’ ability to make informed decisions belies a fundamental distrust. Harvard administrators shrink from granting liberty in an area where the watchful guidance of pedagogues can perhaps be most safely withdrawn: determining in which House rising sophomores will spend the remainder of their College life...
...points to their results. "Under Qarase's government, every day of the week people were jumping on counters with cane knives to steal," he says. "There hasn't been a major crime since Dec 5. None." And when lawlessness has decreased to his satisfaction, his men will be withdrawn: "We want to give that power back to the police, but at the moment people don't have confidence in them." He notes a fall in police morale since the departure of Commissioner Andrew Hughes. "He ran away," says Bainimarama. As for reports that the Australian left after threats that...
...search. But there were three statements that the committee probably had trouble ignoring—those of the outside candidates that are said to have been considered most seriously. Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, told The Crimson last week that he had withdrawn his name from consideration. Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy acted similarly, telling The Crimson two weeks ago, “I am not a candidate, either in my own eyes, or, I trust, in the eyes of the search committee.” Alison F. Richard, the University of Cambridge chief...
...That would contravene a 1925 law drawn up to ban the peddling of titles after Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, a venal realpolitiker, exploited his powers of patronage for the benefit of party coffers. Four wealthy businessmen--all recommended by Labour for peerages, although their names were later withdrawn from contention--admit that they secretly made loans to Labour before the 2005 general election but say the cash was given on commercial terms and so did not have to be disclosed. In April 2006, the police extended their inquiry to look at the finances of all the main political...