Word: imprimatured
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...permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt; trade atrophied, and legislation like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by the U.S. Congress in 1930 gave a legislative imprimatur to protectionist sentiment...
...like things that are rich and heavy and that make a statement," says Wearstler, who is applying her bold imprimatur to four new Viceroys, including one in the Caribbean and one in Mexico, scheduled to open in two to three years...
Many of the court’s most controversial rulings have come on 5-4 votes. It’s possible that these votes were so close because the issues at stake were so contentious. But it’s also possible that 5-4 votes lack the imprimatur of authority that wider margins carry. As the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, R-Pa, said after the court issued a 5-4 ruling in the 2000 case Bush v. Gore: “it naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions...
...Sadly, so long as Great Books at Harvard is a cross borne by a solitary Armenian Studies professor, it can never accommodate the hundreds of students who are eager to take such courses. That can only be achieved by a well-articulated, top-down initiative that bears the imprimatur of Larry Summers, Deans William Kirby or Benedict Gross, the so-called “Gang of Five” who overtook the curricular review this past summer, or whoever has the semblance of authority and courage to call the pedagogical shots around here.Travis R. Kavulla...
Caving willingly to pressure, Wesleyan College’s imprimatur has been accorded to a group that wants to educate professors and incoming freshmen on the use of the transgendered pronoun “ze” and its possessive...