The word "pullout" is usable in written English and is well written
It can be used to refer to a withdrawal or retraction, often in the context of a military or strategic operation, or in publishing to describe a detachable section of a magazine. Example: "The magazine featured a pullout section with detailed maps of the region." Alternatives include "withdrawal" or "retreat."
Even before the DUP-UUP pullout, the Orange Order had denounced the decision to prevent a local lodge from marching past the republican Ardoyne district.
But on nothing does Annan sound so untroubled by doubt as the principle of the international criminal court (ICC), set to be put in the dock itself on Saturday when Africa leaders meet to discuss a possible pullout.
That way, he would get left-wing support for the pullout plan, and right-wing votes for the budget.
Some may quietly exploit the UAE's pullout as ammunition against Dubai's claims in this regard.
He at first shied away from co-ordinating the Gaza pullout with Israel because it was not part of an overall peace deal, so the first discussions have only just been held; Israel, says one official, is waiting for the PA to appoint its representatives to a set of joint working groups.
One, sponsored by John Kerry, calls for a pullout by July 1st 2007.
Mr Sharon now says that even bloody-handed prisoners may be freed, if the Gaza pullout goes well.All this should, for a while, maintain the feel-good factor of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The right-wing Likud, having tried to swallow what was originally a leftist idea (though Mr Sharon, unlike the left, may have intended the Gaza pullout to be Israel's final withdrawal from occupied territory) was near fission.
He knows that Mr Abbas, or whoever leads the Palestinians, would agree to co-operate with him over the Gaza withdrawal only if it is linked to a bigger pullout from the West Bank, so enabling a viable, contiguous Palestinian state to emerge there, along the lines of the international "road map".
But, as Carlo Strenger writes in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, any unilateral pullout would surely involve Israel retaining the major (and, probably, the minor) settlements it has established, as well as a security cordon in the Jordan River valley along the border with Jordan, leaving Palestinian territory encircled.
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, says any pullout would endanger Israel and bring armed Islamists to the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
