Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single acts but often embraces a course of conduct over a span of time involving many acts. To be specific would produce lengthy and com plex articles. The framers of the articles, moreover, did not want to be confined too strictly to each specific claim, since that would limit the evidence that could eventually be used in the Senate...
...trade votes, he would not join a cabal. He switched from a Republican to a Democrat, but he was at home in neither party. While his col leagues rebuked him for being a gadfly, he taunted them for being "phony lib-g erals." "A true liberal can't limit himself to a few areas," he declared. "He I must be on guard everywhere, ready to I pounce on evil wherever it raises its ugly head...
...first time in two eventful decades, the court has signaled that there is a limit to how far the Judicial Branch should go in advancing the goal of racial equality...
Though Shaw makes fun of his own garrulity in Misalliance, he pushes the dramatic form to its limit of sustained conversation with minimal action, achieving both the benefits of perceptive, amusing communication among well-conceived characters and the problems of occasional monotony. In response to her talkative father's hesitant admission that "there's nothing more to be said," the spirited Hypatia ends the play with a resounding "Thank goodness." This declaration provokes the audience to laugh with gratitude for a pleasurable evening and relief that it has ended at last...
...three-mile limit, based on the range of a land cannon, emerged in the 18th century. In World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated a 200-mile "neutrality zone" to safeguard the western flank of Latin America, and that seems to have inspired many of the 200-mile claims being made today. These and other claims generally reflect defense considerations or the extent of important coastal fisheries...