Word: hamstringing
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Significance. Japan, barring collapse of her Government, retains power to abstain from and thereby hamstring both the coming World Economic Conference on which so much hope is pinned and the World Disarmament Conference, now bogged down among committees which haggle endlessly at Geneva.
Up to 1898, what is now New York City was two large cities, Brooklyn and New York. Staten Island was a collection of incorporated villages. In the consolidation of Greater New York, five boroughs were formed: Manhattan, The Bronx, Richmond (Staten Island), Brooklyn, Queens. Wasteful duplications of office resulted. New...
By passing a bill along these lines British Tories, who now control both houses, hope to legally entrench the upper house and hamstring any future Labor Government.
House of Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a...
Smouldering from this technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been...