Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BRITISH royalty reigns but does not govern. According to a famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II "could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could...
...calls a party leader to form a government, but the person she designates must command a majority in the House of Commons. (George III was the last monarch to summon and dismiss ministries at will.) Elizabeth's power to grant or refuse a dissolution of Parliament is real enough, but she would use it independently only in extraordinary circumstances-e.g., if death or strife hopelessly entangled the wheels of party government...
...Lack of Confidence? He had never recommended that Truman dismiss Caudle, he said. "My belief is that after this committee heard Mr. Caudle in executive session and developed some of these points which I had not known before, that information was . . . transmitted directly to the President. The President acted upon that information, which came out of the executive sessions of this committee...
...friend of Santa's!" He asks the tot what he wants for Christmas and, after listening attentively to the list, sends him off with a pat on the head and a cheery exhortation to "Be Good!" I felt this was rather ungenerous, and usually prefer to dismiss a child with, "All right! Santa won't forget you at Christmas!" or some such ambiguous statement...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not happy over the meet. He was, however, inclined to dismiss most of the trouble as more first meet jitters. Nevertheless, it wasn't easy to dismiss lightly several glaring weaknesses that made even the most avid Crimson track fan hold a rein on his enthusiasm...