Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hasty action of the U. S. government was contrary to the rules of diplomacy, which provide, (a) that sufficient reasons should always be given.- Pradier Fodere, Cours de Droit Diplomatic, II. 533; (b) that a minister should be dismissed only for very grave reasons.- Calvo, Dictionaries de Driot International...
...action was contrary to the practice and professions of the United States in previous cases. (a) Genet case.- Message of the president, Dec. 5, 1793; (b) Pussin case.- National Intelligence, Sept. 22, 1849; (c) Crampton case.- Annual Register, 1856, 277; (d) Catacazy case.- Sen. Ex. Doc. 42 Cong. 2d Sess...
...recent meeting of the Harvard Club of New York resolutions were drawn up condemning the action of the athletic committee in refusing to permit the eleven to play Yale in New York on Thanksgiving...
...seems to me that it is as important to prevent fire as it is to provide fireescapes that are more dangerous than fire itself, and I hope therefore that the college authorities will take some such action as I have mentioned towards protecting the buildings...
...literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning or end. The longer poems were composed in forms regulated by strict rules...