Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relations of states and is clearly distinguished from that branch of positive law which governs the internal affairs of a foreign state and which is commonly called "Municipal Law." International Law is divided into Public International Law and Private International Law, which is usually referred to by the name "Conflict of Laws." The weakness of International Law lies in its provisions for enforcing the observance of its principles. Conferences such as the one now being held are generally recognized by jurists as useful in formulating the principles of Public International Law and in solving problems of Conflict of Laws...
...swimmers went off to swim, gently at first. The runners loped, tentatively. The muscular mastodons perspired. Meanwhile another ocean liner moved out of New York harbor to plow her long furrow eastward over the Atlantic. Appropriately named the Homeric, this ship bore more of America's cohorts to Olympian conflict in the distant land. On her decks lounged the famed Yale crew who, with their slender octoreme, had been rushed aboard still panting from victorious exertions against Harvard on the Thames (TIME, June...
...This was an age-old conflict. At its foundation lies the question of how can the government govern and the people be free...
...radicalism, however, is so absurd as this, and much of it is still willing to support its convictions with "grenades". The forces are frankly, in the open and sharp, continuous conflict cannot easily be avoided...
...House of Commons. The Conservative Party's motion (TIME, May 12) condemning the abolition of the McKenna duties was defeated by 317 to 252 votes. The debate was dull- except for the use of the prohibited word "lie" by Captain Terrel, Conservative, which brought him into conflict with the Speaker. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden also stirred the House by an unusually "acrid and ironical" speech. ¶ The Labor bill for the nationalization of the mines was defeated by 264 to 168 votes. It was the first definitely Socialistic measure to be introduced and was of major importance...