Word: expels
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...long are we going to allow a person ... to come into our own house and to say there's a dictatorship here?' HUGO CHAVEZ, Venezuelan President, announcing that he will expel visiting foreigners who publicly criticize his government...
HUGO CHAVEZ, President of Venezuela, announcing that he will expel visiting foreigners who publicly criticize his government...
...Once, long ago in Russia, a Baron decided to expel all the Jewish peasants from his estate. The peasants pleaded with the Baron, but he sat there bored, petting his favorite wolfhound. After a few minutes, he waved them away. Just as they were leaving, a rabbi who had noticed how fond the Baron was of his wolfhound, said: "You know, we're very talented at making dogs speak." Intrigued, the Baron allowed the Jews to stay on for a year, to teach his dog how to talk. Outside the Baron's castle, the Jews wailed: "Rabbi...
...bigotry of immigration opponents is a familiar shadow in our civic myth, like the devils and tempters in a medieval morality play. In 1798 John Adams signed the Alien Act, which gave the President the power to expel "dangerous" foreigners. Harrison Gray Otis, an Adams supporter in Congress, singled out "hordes of wild Irishmen" as particularly unwelcome. Other Congressmen mocked the French accent of Representative Albert Gallatin, who was born in Geneva, Switzerland. Adams was rewarded for his harshness on this issue and others by losing the election of 1800 to Thomas Jefferson, who understood Gallatin well enough to make...
...would the Cherokee, a group all-too-familiar with cultural ignorance and racist categorization, publicly expel its freedman members...