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...said body of international law shall declare war a crime and no longer recognize, in any way or at any time, war as a legitimate institution for the settlement of international disputes. In other words, if war comes, it must be without the shield or sanction of law, but in violation of it as a piracy, or slavery, or peonage or murder...
Before the Norman invasion, the Mayor was known as the Portreeve (porta, Latin for gate; reeve, Saxon for chief magistrate of town; of, shirereeve, contracted to sheriff). So strong was the City at this time that the Great Conqueror placed special value on securing its voluntary sanction to his kingship...
...away from liberal tendencies. Intellectual freedom is endangered. It is feared that thought and the arts will succumb to the dulling influence of bourgeois ideals. Once more Babbitt goes about his daily lasks in great glee. He rubs his hands and beams genially Popular approval has placed its divine sanction upon the trinity of his creed Efficiency, and And having the conscionsness of the crowd at his back, he redevotes himself to Business...
...accrete, who holds enlightened but absolute sway in his realm and is animated by a rigid sense of duty. He has become a despot who will not tolerate the slightest deviation from his doctrine; holds councils behind closed doors; and tries to ensure, by a sort of pragmatic sanction, that the body of psychoanalytical teaching shall remain an indivisible whole...
...settlement of this question will bring about a decided increase in the activity of the club, and in interest among college men. Campaign literature and speakers will be sent up from the New York headquarters, and a great many Republicans who are unwilling to sanction the vigorous activity along certain lines and the total inaction in other more important matters of the present administration will be able to join the club as non-partisan supporters of Mr. Davis...