Word: breach
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Concordat of 1801, said Father de la Chapelle, was in itself an unspeakable act on the part of the government. The government declared that by breaking the Concordat the church and the state would be made independent of each other; but in reality the object of the breach was to enable the state to control the church and appropriate all its property to state uses. When the Pope protested against such action on the part of the state, an agreement was suggested by the latter that worship associations, composed of persons interested in the church, be instituted to govern...
...commandments are the fundamental laws of all creation and not arbitrary rules for man, and the breach of a commandment shows its harm by the destruction it causes. Animals, by over-covetousness often die of starvation; by being false, are killed...
...care nothing for the neighbor, nothing for the state, and in their utter short-sightedness and folly cannot grasp the meaning of the President's constant warning that "we go up or down together," can see only their own immediate profit, marshal their forces at Albany to make a breach in the tenement house law, now here, now there, anything to let their avarice in. Every winter they have to be fought and public opinion held up to its responsibility. A single year of inattention, of over-confidence, and we should have ten years' work to do over again...
...conflict occurs, the track management and those individuals concerned ought to be willing to adjust themselves to a situation which was brought about through no fault of the basketball management. Having removed all objections I arranged my schedule in good faith. Changes at this late date would constitute a breach of faith, as well as a breach of contract. The present arrangement is merely an experiment to test the value of afternoon games as regards increased attendance. W. O. DAPPING, Manager University Basketball Team...
...should appear from this statement that the Harvard protest was made in due course, that it contained no charges of unfair practices, and that the points raised were of such a nature that a difference of view might obtain without involving any breach of friendly relations