Word: redresses
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...Olympic on Aug. 22. I am asking for a reasonable and a just explanation and apology, and I cannot but think you have any other desire than to give me a square deal. If this is done promptly I will be satisfied, if not I shall seek redress in another...
This means that, in the opinion of the court, the government was not within its rights in canceling the Mexican Petroleum Co.'s title because that company ignored the law, preferring instead to seek legal redress against a law which is regarded as confiscatory. Moreover, according to the court, the government is not within its constitutional rights in substituting 50-year leases for outright oil titles...
Subsequently she appealed to the Attorney General of the Federal District for redress, declaring: "If a kiss between husband and wife is illegal, the law is not consistent with the liberalism now prevailing in Mexico...
...Europe the crass and cruel injustices of the peace treaty still cry to high Heaven for redress. In the Tyrol as in other states they curse the name of Wilson, the author of their misery. There is evidence that today the Germans are more popular in France than the Americans; that the acclaim which greeted our plunge into the War has turned to envy, bitterness and open revolt at what they call their bond-slavery to our Treasury. Everywhere in Europe the tide of hatred against America rises. Before he died Woodrow Wilson himself said: 'I would like...
...only way to correct this error was through a retrial; but that "all of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case. On the contrary, we think the peace and dignity of the State, which all criminal prosecutions are brought to redress, will be subserved by the entry of a nolle prosequi [let this go no further] herein. Such is the course suggested to the Attorney General...