Word: preventers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their deeds of "self-defense." The strikers swore out warrants for the arrest of their comrades' "murderers," asserting that their part in the Columbine episode had been peaceable. They had only wanted to go to the Columbine post office, they said. Wobbly Adam Bell and others were arrested to prevent further post office visiting...
...sniping continued. Floodlights were arranged to prevent a night sortie. The convicts asked for a doctor. The Prison Physician went in to them and he found a whole night's work. Nine men, including Turnkey Singleton, lay dead. Four more were dying. Thirty-one convicts were wounded, one of whom died while the doctor was amputating...
More specifically, Article Three of the new pact declares: "In case one of the contracting parties is threatened with war, unprovoked by itself, the other party shall employ all its most efficacious means not only to prevent hostilities but also to secure just satisfaction for the threatened party...
...obtain by merely keeping to his prescribed courses. Doing the thing that doesn't have to be done is usually an additional incentive. Finally, if one finds himself in the course of his vagabonding uninterested in something which he had hoped would prove of interest, there is nothing to prevent him from giving something else a try. --Bowdoin Orient...
...Holland, Belgium, France and Germany now have Neo-Malthusian leagues. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834). English political economist, advocated drastic restrictions of populations to prevent people starving each other out. Contemporaries harried...