Appeals court rejects U.S bid to stop deepwater oil drilling

Anonymous
Officials reported progress on relief well, but tempered any optimism that the spill could be plugged before August.

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  1. stop
    have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
  2. challenge
    a call to engage in a contest or fight
  3. reject
    refuse to accept or acknowledge
  4. ban
    prohibit especially by law or social pressure
  5. scrap
    a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
  6. lawsuit
    any proceeding in a court whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  7. suspension
    the act of hanging something from above so it moves freely
  8. irreparable
    impossible to rectify or amend
  9. harm
    any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
  10. deny
    declare untrue; contradict
  11. injury
    physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident
  12. catastrophe
    a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  13. intercept
    seize, interrupt, or stop something on its way
  14. decline
    grow worse
  15. despite
    contemptuous disregard
  16. prevent
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  17. imposed
    set forth authoritatively as obligatory
  18. ruling
    exercising power or authority
  19. pressure
    the act of putting pressure on something
  20. overcome
    win a victory over
  21. tempered
    made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
Created on Sat Jul 10 21:12:39 EDT 2010

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