Word: obey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brennan's communication was sent to the Council's Ordinance Committee. A city ordinance presently requires that Cambridge residents register bicycles and that cyclists obey traffic regulations...
...speech to the Council, Holly stated that "anyone who attempts to obey the posted ordinance unknowingly violates it half the time," during months when the alternate side provision contradicts the posted rules...
...letter to the CRIMSON published today on page four, Norman Holly 3G calls for "better drafting and effective communication" of city parking ordinances. He claims that students who obey the law have been ticketed by city police for inapplicable violations. Other students, who do not know about a new law, have parked illegally at night although they were obeying the posted regulations...
...side, and at 6 a.m. it must be returned to the even side. However, there is no sign posted which would so instruct a potential parker. Therefore, during the odd months he is fined for parking in an unposted (and therefore supposedly unrestricted) area, and in order to obey the unposted law he must park, at night, at least half the months of the year in an area which is posted as a "tow-way" zone. Thus, one who attempts to obey the law as posted actually violates it unknowingly half the time...
...much more exposed to a conflict of conscience than most other people," he said. Some try to "keep their hands clean by becoming office lawyers," in hopes of escaping the "dirty work that might involve their own consciences." But "since Christ interceded for sinners," said Earth, "Christian lawyers therefore obey Christ's fulfilled law by pleading for sinners-that they may live and receive what is right for their salvation under God. This means that the Christian lawyer is duty bound to take hopeless cases, as Christ...