Word: redresses
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...entire generation after the Civil War, for example-the legislative branch has overshadowed the executive; at other times, particularly during a war, the White House has been predominant. Most of the 20th century has seen the President in the ascendancy. Last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee attempted to redress the balance somewhat, approving unanimously a report calling for a congressional curb on the President's power to commit the country to foreign military ventures. Quoting authorities ranging from Supreme Court Justice (1932-38) Benjamin Cardozo to Napoleon Bonaparte, William Fulbright's committee condemned what it called...
...Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has just reversed all the convictions, as expected. But the redress was unexpected. In an action brought by the Justice Department under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the court not only ordered the county to repay fines collected from the defendants and to expunge all notation of the arrests and convictions from the records; but, most unusually, it also ordered the county to pay all costs incurred in defense of the baseless charges, including "reasonable" attorneys' fees...
...reasons that are often a matter of debate among historians, and that certainly do not stem simply from economic privation, more and more people on certain occasions have come to feel that they have legitimate grievances against a system of law and order under which they can find no redress. As pressures build up in this fashion, individuals and groups of individuals are likely to break the law. In the movement of Negro protest, quite often such persons then find themselves accused of self-righteous intolerance, of taking the law into their own hands, of being the ones responsible...
According to Army officials, the four students were the first "in memory" to be disenrolled after completing the entire Harvard ROTC program. Their letter did not seek personal redress, but instead outlined several procedures which they believed should be prevented in the future...
...zones, U.S.O.-type song-and-dance troupes and armed propaganda teams enter a village to "protect" it after advance men have sounded out the villagers' grievances. Whatever the complaints?whether they deal with a corrupt headman or a lack of land reform?the Viet Cong move in and offer redress where they can. Their methods are direct: shoot the corrupt chief, redistribute the land...