Word: reject
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikers in Japanese cotton-factories (TIME, June 15). The British contended that the students and their sympathizers were shot after warning when they attacked the Interrational Police Force at Shanghai. The Peking Foreign Office, while charging all the foreign Powers with responsibility for the shootings which began the trouble, reject the British contention. John A. Brailsford, correspondent of The New York World, laid the blame for the present disturbances at the door of all foreigners, including some missionaries...
...returned to the House of Lords as a Conservative and just as much at his ease as he had been in the bosom of the Liberal Party. He became a stern enemy of Lloyd George's radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King George to create a batch...
...Geneva met the representatives of 42 nations to propose, discuss, pass or reject resolutions framed to control the international traffic in arms and other munitions...
...would desert the Government ship, which must then founder, for the Unified Socialists, with 104 seats, form about one-third of the Government's supporters. If the Government advances the capital levy, it is sure to win in the Chamber, although the Senate was considered equally sure to reject...
...seem so startling because the Senate has long insisted on most of its constitutional prerogatives. But the Senate's action may have far-reaching consequences. It upset the precedent of three generations. If the Senate is to insist on its full power, it has the right to reject a Cabinet appointment not only on the ground of fitness (as in Mr. Warren's case), but on any ground whatever. A Democratic Senate might insist that a Republican President appoint only Democrats to his Cabinet and vice versa. That is an extreme supposition, but entirely within the scope of possibilities...