A senior Treasury official, briefing reporters today on the condition he not be identified, said Washington had an explicit right to withdraw privileges from Japanese financial institutions operating in the United States if the agreement was not fulfilled.

That law is the subject of a Supreme Court case, on the docket for Oct. 5, about whether the federal government has the right to withdraw prescribing privileges for doctors who follow the Oregon law and prescribe lethal doses of medicine to their dying patients.

When the government began withdrawing special privileges granted to colonists such as freedom from conscription, Jansen's father advised concerned Mennonites to emigrate to North America.

Hope responded by withdrawing special privileges accorded to striking newspapers.

She hardly ever put you in detention, made you do chores or withdrew privileges.

He had also withdrawn privileges such as collecting wood from the estate from his tenants.

Performing poorly in his courses, he tried to cover up his academic failure by falsifying his results, but when this was discovered by his parents they threatened to withdraw certain privileges, such as use of his car.

But the federal program does not withdraw privileges from inmates who are selected but choose not to participate.

In 1415 King Sigismund had enfeoffed the Hohenzollern with Brandenburg, who were now establishing their power and withdrawing electoral privileges, which the cities had alienated in the prior Brandenburgian interregnum (1319-1415).

The Army withdrew privileges and confined the Cheyenne to the barracks.