Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This consisted of a demand for a formal apology, suitable punishment of those responsible, and "an assurance by the Japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of such a character." The British took no special notice of the fact that it was His Majesty's Ambassador who had been shot in the liver; the note went so far as to say that his diplomatic status was "irrelevant." "The real crime" was that the car's occupants were "non-combatants." The British Foreign Office thus really sidestepped the implications of an attack...
...less than three great nations of Europe might have been "those who wish to prevent Portugal's rearmament...
...agreed to supply them, then demanded a written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
...making purchases at Jewish stores. C. A 28-year-old Jew invited an Aryan girl to the movies, and she sued him. A Nürnberg court, sentencing the Jew to a month's imprisonment, reminded him that the laws of Nürnberg were enacted to "prevent the erotic approach of Jews towards Aryan girls...
...fact that 59,000 U. S. graduate dentists have offices which practically any patient can reach. If the patient is too ill to travel or, like President Roosevelt, very important, the dentists may go to him.* But this is considered extraordinary dental practice. Nonetheless, there are no laws to prevent licensed dentists who cannot gather the $3,000 necessary to equip a regular office, from putting their equipment in satchels, packs or motor trailers, so long as they confine their practice to their own States. In the cases of the Albany itinerants, none had licenses to practice anywhere. None...