Word: impel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disappearing way of life in any case, but now its premature doom appears to be sealed. Last week the Israeli Cabinet proposed a harsh plan that would empower the government to seize 37,500 acres of Bedouin lands, with limited compensation but without right of judicial appeal, and to impel the displaced tribesmen to resettle into new industrial townships. The Bedouins have raised their small minority voice in protest, even vowing that blood will be spilled before the controversy is over, but thus far to no avail. When the Negev Lands Purchase Law receives parliamentary approval in the Knesset, which...
...whatever imagery it carries but-more-by the latent emotions it mobilizes. It plays too on the verities and prejudices of its audience, balming or inflaming them according to purpose. Just so, the slogan lurks as a sort of floating hook in the psyche. Properly tugged, it can impel people to coalesce, to divide, to fight, to sacrifice, to vote...
...proposition had been rejected in 1970 and 1973, but the Minneapolis convention finally voted in favor of the full ordination of women,* breaking with a practice dating to the earliest days of the church. In the House of Bishops, 60% voted yes, a slim margin to carry conviction and impel churchwide support for such an emotional issue. In the House of Deputies (made up of priests and laity who vote separately on important decisions), it was an eyelash victory because of the house's peculiar voting system. If the priestly delegations from just three of the 114 dioceses...
causes which impel them to the separation...
...winch have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to winch the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes winch impel them to the separation...