The painting is a feminist work: it presents a powerful woman, offered for male inspection, but not objectified; the model's challenging stare meets the viewer's gaze in a way that thwarts desire.
A drama involving weapons inspections in Iraq will play itself out over the spring and summer, and will end with the United States declaring that the terms that Saddam offers for the inspections, involving delays and restrictions, are unacceptable.
I offer myself for inspection.
-- have we been able to offer for your close inspection and absolute astonishment a creature who embodies in unique combination each and every one of those diabolical traits and so much more!
A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress voted to defund horse slaughter inspections as part of the lengthy 2006 agricultural appropriations bill, but the USDA privately offered fee-for-service inspections to plant operators to get around the ban--a maneuver that kept them operating for another year, but was later found to violate U.S. law by a Federal District Court judge.
You show your passport or offer your bags for inspection to officers bearing bright Kurdish insignia on crisp uniforms.In the past month, virtually no insurgent violence has been recorded in Iraqi Kurdistan, bar a shocking but isolated spate of suicide-bombings that killed more than 400 members of the Yazidi sect in two villages near Sinjar, on the fringe of the area controlled by the Kurds.
It would also expand the authority of the Federal Election Commission to offer those files for inspection and levy stiff fines for companies that don't comply.
Crestfallen, I walked to Clocks and Watches and offered my Groucho wristwatch for inspection.
He said the right things about al-Qaeda; offered his nuclear programme for inspection, and in 2003 abandoned it; paid compensation for Lockerbie; and, apparently chastened by his own military incompetence, seemed to have forgotten his windy pan-Arab and pan-Islamist dreams.
In fact, Israel could have offered to meet them ready for inspection instead of forcefully boarding in waters they do not legally control.
