Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present time one of the problems in securing the observance of international agreements, and the fulfillment of international obligations, has been the maintenance of an effective sanction. In early times many treaties aimed to obtain a sanction by calling upon deity to witness the contract, which was then called sacred. Often, a few years later, this sanction was not found sufficient to deter rulers from action contrary to the treaty, if policy seemed to make such action advantageous. The League to Enforce Peace aims to provide such sanction as will prevent hostilities, until resort has been had to a judicial...
...when temptation is strong and passion or pressure is great. In fact, most men who have thought deeply on these subjects are becoming convinced that there must be some form of compulsion to make countries respect the rights of others; as the lawyers say, the obligation must have a sanction...
Before the present system is given the sanction of tradition, no one should for get that it is nothing more than a prolonged experiment. It was devised in order to insure at least a reading knowledge of either French or German among all students of Junior standing. If the method in force fails to attain this end, it should be open to correction...
...attitude of the great American universities upon any social question with ways go far toward determining in the nation. Harvard has always stood for the highest ideals of manhood in contemporary society could Whatever may have been true in the today this highest ideal includes the temperance. Any official sanction use of alcohol is no longer in with the spirit and social duty of the university...
...confess our sanction of drunkenness, indecency, lying, disrespectfulness and thieving," writes one correspondent, apropos of the "Beer, Movies, Cigarettes" advertised on the posters of the Sophomore banquet. On the other side, another tells us that "beer . . . changes the yelping minstrel into Caruso," and claims that it is "the only thing that makes a meeting go." Both of these writers are intolerant, and each runs to ridiculous extremes...