One of the things I emphasized to President Karzai, however, is, is that the incentives for the Taliban to lay down arms, or at least portions of the Taliban to lay down arms, and make peace with the Afghan government in part depends on our effectiveness in breaking their momentum militarily.
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And that is why we support an Afghan-led process of reconciliation with very clear conditions -- that any Taliban member who wants to lay down his arms, or her arms -- lay down his arms, primarily -- make clear that they support the Afghan constitution, the rights of women and minorities, and renounce any affiliation or support for al Qaeda, then they are obviously welcome in the reconciliation process.
Lay down a firm rule that statutes say what they mean and mean what they say.
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He has also offered a partial amnesty to rebels who lay down their weapons.
But with his new album, Lay It Down, Green returns to his most soulful form.
The goal is to lay down baseline scans of roads and cities across the globe.
Then the masses again find reason to lay down their lives for something larger than themselves.
In those days and weeks it was easy to offer a life, to lay it down.
Many lawmakers seem to believe that they can lay down rules to govern every eventuality.
And it will lay down a strategy for tackling all other types of homelessness as well.
Thorstein Skiaker, head of Kosovo peacekeepers, called on "extremists" to lay down their weapons and negotiate.
My mom tried to lay down the law, but I found ways around her.
In May, Guatemala's guerrillas became the last in the region to lay down their arms.
"It should not be for the government to lay down what is excessive, " he said.
Embarking on a peace process, the paramilitaries needed an incentive to lay down their arms.
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Ants in more temperate climates often lay down chemical trails, but Cataglyphis, apparently, does not.
Not surprisingly, Gore and his surrogates are trying manfully to lay down suppressing fire.
JI's breeding-grounds points to the network still being able to lay down firm foundations for the future.
In February 2001 Kenneth Lay stepped down as CEO of Enron handing the reins to Jeff Skilling.
The United States continued broadcasting to Iraqis via radio frequencies, encouraging Iraqi troops to lay down weapons.
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But would he lay down his life to stave off the inevitable defeat of an unloved dictator?
It has even talked about an amnesty for those who are willing to lay down their arms.
Rose always eager to work but able to grasp the import of certain moments lay down and hardly moved.
Generally speaking, the best practice techniques are those that lay down multiple, vivid memory patterns in the brain.
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It would lay down the overarching and some of the more specific aims that all schools should follow.
"I don't think the PKK will lay down its arms, " said Shamal Bishir, the PJAK's foreign affairs chief.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.
In 2008 a memorandum also promised autonomy, but the rebels did not have to lay down their arms.
The first lesson is that you can't convince terrorists to lay down their arms simply by walking away.
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