Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international solidarity of the great metallurgy companies, or in order to safeguard private business interests, our military chiefs were ordered not to bombard the establishments of the Briey basin, which were being exploited by the enemy during the war. I affirm that our aviation service received instructions to respect the blast furnaces in which the enemy steel was being made, and that a general who wished to bombard them was reprimanded...
Princeton men respect and like Tyler Dennett, find his lectures good fun. He is tall, thickset, blue-eyed, and his close-cropped hair is beginning to grey around the temples. A quick smile keeps extra wrinkles in his wrinkled, ruddy face. He has to wear glasses when he motors or reads, takes them off for lectures. When he is not writing diplomatic history he likes to paint, fish, photograph, putter around the house. No carpenter or plumber is ever needed by the Dennett household. Father of four, he got his two eldest sons to help him put up the family...
...human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...
Common decency and respect for the most elementary laws of courtesy should have restrained Philbrick from committing such an ungentlemanly act which reflects not only upon himself, but upon the entire University as well...
...remember of the book describes Dick's effort to refute the doctors' predictions and to retain his self-respect and professional position in the face of Nicole's enormous wealth. Perhaps he might have succeeded if he had not been disillusioned in his love for Rosemary Hoyt, a newcomer to their villa...