Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranged all his authority and prestige against Seretse. "Chiefs pass and are forgotten, but the country goes on," he said. "Custom has been broken. It was a great wrong marrying this white woman. My nephew has killed us. He has made a precedent that the chief can marry without regard to or consent of the tribe." He insisted on a divorce: "The white woman is not suitable for Seretse and the tribe...
...without regard to the members' commitments...
...Angeles became the first big city of the automobile age. Its citizens worship the fishtail Cadillac, use their cars for almost all transportation (there is one car for every 2.6 persons-the nation's highest average), drive up to traffic lights like ballplayers sliding into second, and regard the pedestrian with suspicion and distrust...
...commission sees little chance of a sharp birthrate decline, believes that Britain's present 49 million population will drop only to 45½ million by 2050. The commission does not regard this prospect as calamitous. To the neo-Malthusians, who assert that the world population is outrunning its food supply, the commission report makes this answer: "The danger that a shortage of foodstuffs entering the world markets may continue indefinitely to the serious detriment of countries whose populations have outstripped their own agricultural resources cannot, we think, be rated higher than a possibility...
...usually be found on Sunday evenings in his kitchen, making talk and scrambled eggs for his favorite students. From other historians Randall won respect, though not always agreement. A Lincolnian with Southern sympathies, he scorned the school that looked upon the Civil War as an "irrepressible conflict," chose to regard the war as the tragic error of an emotional and "blundering generation...