Word: nay
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...willing President Carter. Since the bill has the backing of the administration and the Democratic party leadership in the House of Representatives, it was expected to pass easily this year. Instead, a massive lobbying effort led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has maintained enough potential "nay" votes to prevent Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), the speaker of the House, from bringing the bill to a vote...
...next three miles, I moved at the pace of a brisk walk. And still I was dying. My legs kept wanting to move faster, but my stomach said nay. By the time I got rid of the cramp, my legs were ready for their own work-slowdown. Rhythm is crucial to a marathoner's success. The cramp destroyed mine, and I suffered the rest...
There was chin wagging, eyebrow lifting and nay-saying when the announcement came that Georgia Congressman Andrew Jackson Young Jr. had been nominated as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Indeed, for a while the firmest nay had been that of Young himself. But last week, under what one source described as "imploring by Carter to reconsider," personable Andy Young accepted what he conceded to be, only half facetiously, a suicide post, or so it has proved for many a famed political figure...
...radicals like Anthony Flagg Prescott, hwo finds even FDR's second New Deal unabashedly capitalistic, to reactionaries like Timothy Prescott, Tory poet. Still, it isn't hard to tell where Fried's own sympathies lie; in Julian's words, "Mine was a family of antinomians, dissenters, gadflies and nay-sayers." Most of the Prescotts, at least the most articulate ones, fall to the left of the men they write about (Timothy's poetry, as it turns out, is egregiously...
...even if that or any other country was worth governing against the inclination of all its inhabitants." With typical wit, Fox made the same argument to Lord North in the House of Commons: "Lord Chatham [government leader when Canada was taken from the French], the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great never gained more in one campaign than the noble Lord has lost. He has lost a whole continent." Colonel Isaac Barre, a fiery speaker whose face was disfigured at the Battle of Quebec, cried out: "Give us back our Colonies! You have lost America! It is your ignorance...