Word: repeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican People's Party committeemen. Coolly, Gulek answered: "We have a perfect right to hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters he announced his determination to fight for the repeal of Menderes' new law, and added: "The graveyards of Europe are filled with fallen dictators...
...people need. In fact, he knows his people so well that in the 14 years he has been pastor of Oklahoma City's First Christian Church, he has managed such pastoral unconventionalities as Sunday evening dances in the church recreational hall, an address to the state legislature urging repeal of liquor prohibition, a race for the U.S. Senate (against "Mike" Monroney), and a quiet domestic interchange (a campaign aide married the former Mrs. Alexander, and Pastor Bill married the ex-wife of the aide, after making the announcement of his second marriage from the pulpit...
...recent past. No longer need attention focus so exclusively on court cases, although cases still in progress must be fought vigorously and new victims defended. But now, while there is a lull, for whatever reason, in the attack on academic freedom, major attention should be turned to securing the repeal and withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop and state clearly the meanings and implications of "academic freedom," in the hope that a wider...
...musicians' union recommends two ways to alleviate the situation: 1) repeal the 20% cabaret tax in the hope that owners will hire musicians again, and 2) pay a Government subsidy to performing organizations such as European countries...
Gandhi's jail-going was primarily pointed at limited objectives, such as the repeal of the anti-Asiatic registration. In South Africa, when some of his followers pleaded with him to extend the struggle into new areas, he stood his ground: "In a pure fight the fighters would never go beyond the objective fixed when the fight began," he said, "even if they received an accession to their strength in course of fighting, or on the other hand they could not give up their objective if they found their strength dwindling away...