Word: larger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questions; over political questions the court has no jurisdiction. It is also well to remember that the Council of the league, when they received the report of the Committee of Jurists which recommended obligatory jurisdiction of the legal issues mentioned promptly struck out the provision for obligatory jurisdiction. The larger Powers were still unwilling to submit automatically the most legal of questions to judicial determination. The obligation to submit was left optional, and fortunately some fifteen smaller nations on condition of reciprocity, have ratified the optional clause. It may be hoped that the practice will prove contagious. Thus...
...likely to fight. For the most part, the kind of case that comes before the courts, the kind of case that has come before the Permanent Court of Arbitration, for instance, is not the kind of case which leads to war"; and again, "It is true that the larger political questions about which nations might go to war will not generally come before the court." The assertion sometimes heard that the opponents of America's "joining" the court are obstructing the "world's peace" deserves reexamination...
...Last year he contributed a brand new dollar bill at the request of the Red Cross committee, which specified that he contribute no larger amount...
...recall that I said anything about athletics, although a college president can hardly say anything without being supposed to allude slyly to that subject. Of course I believe in athletics sports, as promoting health in body and soul; and, being human, should not be cast down by a larger share of victories...
Such are the larger aspects of the Chinese customs muddle. It is expected that, for the present, the conference will steer clear of as many of them as possible. Observers agree that the immediate situation in China is too unstable to warrant proximate withdrawal of British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...