Word: incur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be eager to assume it. Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while...
...President further flayed Congress for failing to vote money to run the District of Columbia. To the D. C. Commissioners, he wrote a letter directing them to incur debts for vital services (police, fire, water, health...
...read in all Catholic churches in Britain, the hierarchy declared: "Among the causes of the present unrest are workings of certain secret societies. The church sternly condemns all societies which plot against the church or state. They are guilty of crime against human society. Members of such secret societies incur excommunication...
...that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides a special $50,000,000 "fighting fund" for subsidizing trade "valuable to Britain but not justifiable as sound commercial risks...
...quote the further explanation of it by Mr. Eden, who continued : "I use the word 'may' deliberately, since, in such an instance, there is no auto-matic obligation to take military action. It is, moreover, right that this should be so, for nations cannot be expected to incur automatic military obligations save for areas where their vital interests are concerned...