Word: breach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this country but one representative is allowed to each district, in England the number runs from one to four, and it frequently happens that members of the same party run for the same seat in the House of Commons, and it is not considered by any means, a breach of party faith. The result has frequently been, to elect the candidate of the minority. Especially was this the case in the last election in which the Conservatives lost a number of seats. So that now, a caucus system has been devised called the "Birmingham System," which in many respects resembles...
...party, who act as ministers, in which a programme of the business of the day is published, and from the heading of this paper, which is underscored either once, twice, three or four times, he is able to judge as to the necessity of his appearance. The worse breach of party discipline which a member can commit is a failure to respond to a four lined "whip...
...definite verbal agreement entered into by representatives of the two colleges acting through the Yale foot-ball president, with the consent of the Harvard president, Mr. Clark, and the manager of the polo grounds. This manager would have perfect right to claim damages from Yale and Harvard for breach of contract...
...right to do this. Moreover, the injurious results of this action are many. Not only will the foot-ball club and many private individuals be seriously affected financially, but the authorities have virtually broken their faith with the club, and have widened to an inconceivable extent the breach which we regret to state has for some time existed between faculty and students. We have spoken thus plainly, because we believe not to do so would be to fail in our duty as representing the undergraduate opinion of Harvard. We would counsel all the students to be calm and reasonable...
...almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect in its attitude toward that body, but merely because it ventures to express opinions differing from those of the authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind had occurred when college papers first began to be published, its cause...