Word: provisos
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...were far from laughable: Father Coughlin, who described himself as "a religious Walter Winchell" and believed that all bankers were devils and Jewish bankers the most devilish of the lot; Dr. Francis Townsend, who proposed to give every oldster over 60 a pension of $200 a month with the proviso that he spend it within the month; Huey Long, Louisiana's "messiah of the rednecks," who, in a rare moment of insight, called himself "a wedded man with a storm for my bride...
Debré wanted broad powers to regulate, and gradually eliminate, the home distillers. The legislators balked at that. Finally and reluctantly, they passed his bill, but only after adding a proviso that no presently licensed home distiller-or his widow-should be deprived of his right to distill his own brandy. This meant that the government, by granting no new permits, could stamp out home distilling -in only 60 years...
...policymaking sense, I see no reason for black despair or for defeatist doubts. We can do whatever we have to do in order to survive and to meet any form of economic or political competition we are likely to face. All this we can do with one proviso: we must be willing to do our best...
...case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve only to encourage other nations to enact the same kind of proviso, create a situation where disputants could keep any meaningful international cases away from the court simply by labeling them "domestic.'' Events proved them correct, and the structure of international law was seriously weakened...
...obedient as it was, Parliament had misgivings. With undisguised suspicion of Debre, the Assembly wrote in a proviso that all decrees must be signed by De Gaulle personally. Deputy Paul Coste-Floret clearly spoke for his fellows when he said: "Many of us would have legal qualms about doing this if General de Gaulle were not the head of state." Their only assurance that De Gaulle would not abuse his power lay in his own restraint. It was an ominous turning for the Fifth Republic-which had ceased, in all but name, to be a republic. France was again following...