Word: redresses
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...case the great outstanding fact is this: That, whereas the Allied sort of illegality, if such it be, has caused reparable inconvenience and financial loss, the German sort of illegality has already irreparably destroyed 200 American lives, and now threatens to destroy more. For these lives there is no redress; and to meet this threat there is no course but that of self-protection by force...
...absence of prompt redress on the part of nature, it is suggested that the University bestir itself. A squad of doughty men with shovels to alter the topography of the slush piles, and to dig little trenches so that certain demi-lakes may empty themselves into oblivion, could still accomplish wonders. Days ago, the need for such a squad was "crying"; it is still acute...
...redress which the Association has is the black-list to which all names are added of men whose tickets are found in speculators' hands. At present the list contains the disgraceful number of 98 names of graduates and undergraduates who have in varying degree abused their special privileges in the allotment of seats. These men are denied the privilege of applying for seats in the future...
...growing unrest in the country, due to the agitation aroused by the educated Hindoos for a share in the government. As yet the movement has not reached great proportions, but there is danger of a repetition of the great massacre of 1857 if there is no immediate redress of the grievances which the natives have against the English governing party...
...protection of these grants. Great Britain is released from the obligations imposed by her conditional promise not to interfere. Then passing to the second justification he pointed out that since British subjects have been maltreated by the administrative agents of the Transvaal, and the means of obtaining legal redress have been exhausted in vain, since British subjects have suffered from the unfair administration of the laws, and since the laws themselves have constituted grievous oppression, the general principles of international law sanctioned England's claim to a right to interfere...