Word: bulwarks
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...those presenting the though that the bulwark of our liberty is in the Supreme Court with power granted the fifth judge to nullify or ratify the legislative act of 531 Congressmen and Senators, whose combined conscience and intelligence ought to be 531 times as great as that of such a judge. I reply that Great Britian has for centuries promoted democracy and liberty and she has never had a constitution to be reviewed or repudiated by any kind of a Supreme Court. Even the House of Lords is today subject to the will of the House of Commons, and Goldwin...
...Cardinal Legate made a speech condemning radicalism. Holy Name men, said he, are "a great army in battle array, strong with the strength of God, a bulwark against anarchy." He concluded...
...fence, Hammond patrolled second base admirably. In the third and again in the tenth he robbed Dins more of apparently certain hits. The latter play, a back-hand catch of a vicious liner, brought the crowd to its feet with a spontaneous roar of applause. Jenkins was a bulwark of strength at short-stop...
...Chancellor proposed to reduce the Navy estimates by ?5,000,000 ($21,250,000). Instantly the. press started a "Hands off the Navy" cam- paign. Conservative newspapers were loud in their protestations against what they called "impairing the national bulwark." The Liberal press followed a good second, but the Labor press, i. e., The Daily Herald, said that the reduction will not be more than about ?2,500,000 ($10,625,000). Lord Beatty's hostile attitude was, however, said to be causing some anxiety...
...bulwark of international capitalism, chief stake of diplomacy in backward countries, cause of war, seems destined to become more and more the great motivating factor of American foreign policy. Free competition has long since been abolished, and the struggle for wells, spheres of exploitation, areas of monopoly, and markets is becoming more bitter and more fraught with intrigue, discrimination, tariffs, and embargoes...