"Who knows what we're going to face in the next three and a half years in the Middle East?" The Oval Office meeting ended one of the strangest weeks of the Obama administration, in which a president who had drawn a "red line" against the use of chemical weapons, and watched Syrian military forces breach it with horrific consequences, found himself compelled to act by his own statements.
"If that dam was breached, it could have proven catastrophic, with floods that would have threatened the lives of thousands of civilians and endangered our embassy compound in Baghdad," President Obama said Aug. 18, the day Iraqi forces retook the structure.
"If that dam was breached, it could have proven catastrophic, with floods that would've threatened the lives of thousands of civilians and endangered our embassy compound in Baghdad," Obama said Monday, though he pledged that the U.S. would "not reintroduce thousands of troops" on additional missions in Iraq.
Each side accused the other of breaching it, both with some justification.
Mr. Giuliani had sued the university last summer, claiming that it breached its contract with him by removing him from the team without cause.
Bernie Sanders is suing the Democratic party for $600,000 a day in damages, claiming it breached its contract with the campaign by dramatically removing all access to crucial voter records just weeks before the Iowa caucus.
This high-technology soap opera is complex, but here is a simplified version of events so far: SCO, which bought the licensing rights to the Unix operating system and its source code in 1995, sued I.B.M. in March, contending that it breached its contract with SCO by shoveling Unix code into Linux, an operating system that is closely related to Unix.
As a result, the Association of Learning Providers has just issued a legal challenge to the LSC, claiming it has breached its contract with training companies that administer apprenticeships.
In its legal filing, United and Orbitz said the site was "intentionally and maliciously" interfering with the travel firms' business and was making it breach its contracts with its partners.
Because the company filed last year's financials late, it breached agreements with lenders, and conceivably it might have to cut the dividend to appease them.
