Some diplomats and officials, who have watched the administration steadily withdraw from involvement on the Iraqi issue here, said with Mr. Ekeus in place administration officials could assure critics that a credible chief inspector was back on the job, even if sanctions were ultimately lifted in the process.
But the US can neither ignore nor withdraw from involvement there.
Others, like WH Auden, withdrew from political involvement altogether.
It was not until 1995, when Steinbrenner withdrew from active involvement in the management of the team, that stability in the form of homegrown young players (Jorge Posada, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams, and Andy Petite) and a long-term manager (Joe Torre) brought another round of success.
Facing certain destruction, the Bucharest government signed the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918 and withdrew from further involvement in World War I. Following the successful offensive on the Macedonian Front that knocked Bulgaria out of the war, Romanian reentered the war of the Allied side on November 10, 1918; one day before the general armistice was announced.
Antanas Smetona had served as Lithuania's first president between April 1919 and June 1920; he then withdrew from formal political involvement, although he published political criticism, for which he served a brief prison term in 1923.
Given this new economic complexity and the political stability already achieved by the Conservatives and perpetuated by the Liberals, the tin-mining elite found it profitable to withdraw from direct involvement in national political life.
WWE had offered Lesnar a contract, but on August 2, 2005, WWE's official website reported that Lesnar had withdrawn from any involvement with the company.
The monk in this story serves as a model by maintaining emotional detachment from the transient opinions of others while never withdrawing from personal involvement with others' real needs.
