Word: obey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with fresh and indisputed evidence of the irrationality of its circumstance. A response was inevitable. The investment in the dream had been too heavy for its foreclosure to go unresisted. The response came in Montgomery the day Rose Parks, a respected former secretary of the local NAACP, refused to obey a bus driver's order to yield her seat in the forward part of the jimcrow section of a crowded...
...power to be heard, the power to expose the very forces that had created his public image and protected his life while simultaneously continuing to oppress the people he was credited with leading and poor people every-where. Thus, King was faced with a choice. He could obey Hoover's directive and "temper the pace and drive of your movement," or he could go back on the point and try again to incarnate his dream...
...foreign partner and say, "We are going to work with you forever." This leads to great difficulty for us because we have to write agreements that are short-term when we really intend them to be longterm. I don't know any other government that makes companies obey not only the laws of the foreign nations where they operate but also certain laws of the home country. We are unique in that...
Dershowitz accused the CRR of failing to obey Paragraph 4 of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which requires it to determine that there is "probable cause" for a complaint before proceeding with a hearing...
Risking Explosion. Many of New York's pleasure-boaters argue that they simply cannot obey the law as it is now being interpreted, and many law-enforcement officials agree. They are anxiously awaiting a court test of the confusing statute. In some craft, owners claim, installation of a holding tank is prohibitively expensive; in others it is physically impossible. Some boatowners are now using pails lined with disposable plastic bags-and then violating the law by surreptitiously jettisoning the bags rather than turn their floating homes into floating cesspools. Others are installing compromise devices with small holding tanks good...