1. A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court last summer explicitly endorsed terminal sedation while quashing an effort to create a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. 2. But those efforts were quashed soundly, with men at times going onto fields and dragging spouses away. 3. However, he has refused to quash efforts by his party and closest political allies to lift the term limits for elected officials. 4. Law promptly marched home and quashed efforts by restive Boston Catholics to organize an association of parish councils. 5. More important, legal experts said, a stay could quash any effort to short-circuit the case to the Supreme Court. 6. That effort was quashed by Republicans. 7. The United States also quashed efforts to single out Israel for refusing to sign renewal of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. 8. With reactions unusually vocal for their profession, the accountants have so far quashed legislative efforts for major change. 9. EU security chief Javier Solana urged officials from the larger republic, Serbia, and much smaller Montenegro to try to quash efforts to shatter the federation. |