Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost worse than the actual waste of taxpayers' money, he thought, was the Army's lordly and casual way of doing business without Congressional sanction. On the basis of Army estimates of costs, Congress had willingly appropriated funds. But Mr. Engel, scratching around, found that the Army had asked for many, many more millions than it needed...
...lending sanction to this experiment, the Committee necessarily surrenders its freedom of action. In name it may be at liberty to take such action as later circumstance demands. But good faith has its compulsions, and the presumption runs strongly to success...
...vital interest to all V-12 men now in training and of great significance for higher education is the Vinson Bill (H.R. 621), which is now awaiting official sanction by the President...
Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...
Lone Game. Actually this sanction was puny punitive step that shocked Argentina's pride more than it hurt the Argentine pocketbook. A point not made in the State Department bugle-call statement about its action was that only eight, or fewer, U.S. ships a month had been calling at Argentine ports. Most Argentine exports to the U.S. have been carried in Argentine bottoms, which are still free to enter U.S. ports. Latin American and Brit ish ships continue their brisk trade with Argentina...