Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequently, state and federal courts have been very reluctant to upset declarations of martial law by state governors Judges, wisely recognize that the particular decisions about emergencies must usually be left to the Executive who wields the sword, without any control or advice from sedentary scholars on the benches...
...legislature has vested in an administrative tribunal the control and regulation of a particular business, respect for law and order normally requires the subject to cross-examination. When a governor attempts to settled a controversy by martial law, he is acting as the prosecutor, judge, and jury all by himself, and employing methods for the maintenance of order which may be even more dangerous to private citizens than the activities of the persons whom the governor is attempting to suppress...
...Vladimir Military Academy in Petrograd to become an officer in Tsar Nicholas' Imperial Army, was turned out of school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin to his face with general religious intolerance and particular oppression of the Church in Russia. Not thus challenged in years by anyone, male or female, Dictator Stalin knit his brows, finally replied: "Mrs. Munters, we in the Soviet Union seek to advance Culture, and Culture has nothing to do with Religion...
Exclaimed Le Populaire, newsorgan of the French Socialist Party and Vice Premier Leon Blum who last year became the first Socialist Premier of France and is soon to visit the White House: "It is the conscience of the civilized world which has answered bestial ferocity." Without designating any particular country, his words are sufficiently explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations...
...would clearly be premature at this stage for me to commit this Government to any particular course of action...