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• n  the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)

• Our objective should be to focus on the country's nuclear program, insisting on its complete dismantlement and a full accounting of fissile material.
• Earlier in May, UMP president Patrick Devedjian expressed the longing of virtually all French conservatives by "forcefully requesting the definitive dismantlement of the 35-hour .
• Nor that it says nothing concrete about the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear facilities, materials and weapons.

• dismantling
• disassembly

• assembly

News & Articles

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• Candidates Strut Their Stuff at Post-DOMA Pride Parade
  Days after the dismantlement of the Defense of Marriage Act in a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the celebration is still going strong in the streets of New York City. Thousands of people flooded Fifth Avenue this afternoon, decked out in every imaginable shade, waving rainbow flags in varying amounts of clothing for the city’s annual gay pride parade. Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme ...
  June 30, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Mohamed ElBaradei in International Herald Tribune
  ElBaradei said he and North Korean authorities would meet on how to "implement the freeze of (nuclear) facilities" and the "eventual dismantlement of these facilities."
• Shinzo Abe in International Herald Tribune
  We understand it marks the first concrete step by North Korea toward its nuclear dismantlement,Abe said after the accord was struck in Beijing. "But our position that Japan cannot provide support without a resolution of the abduction issue...
• President Roh in Kansas City Star
  Now that the highest leader of North Korea confirmed a clear commitment to the North's nuclear dismantlement, I don't see any problem in carrying it out,South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said after what was only the second summit ever...