Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are without direction, which is very dangerous. Also, they contradict each other quite often. They are so preoccupied with finding the guilty that they have no time to do what has to be done. Everything that has happened during the emergency is happening now without the legal sanction of a constitutional emergency-arrests, press controls, everything. I would not use the word dictatorship because it has been bandied about far too much. But if my rule was a dictatorship, then this is a dictatorship...
...equivalent for God in what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo sapiens, which presumably could comprehend the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence. That is his rationalizing sanction of the mat ing of Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield. They might produce a brainy superbaby...
Earnings Heartache. In an angry mood, Judge Leff said, "The real danger is the cynicism that is engendered when, at the level at which this kind of fraud takes place, the general public believes that ultimately there isn't any effective sanction which will punish or which will be feared by these corporate thieves." Nonetheless, the appellate court agreed to give Dolkart yet another stay, pending an appeal of his sentence...
Ambassador Andrew Young has taught the nation a good lesson in social science. He has effectively described institutional racism. When the opportunities, privileges, and responsibilities of a people are limited and circumscribed solely because of their race, the practice is racism. Those who create and control, support and sanction systems that limit others because of their race are racists, even though they may aid and assist a specific individual of the oppressed group and may be friends with one or more individuals of a race unlike their...
...some Soviet citizens, one proviso of the Brezhnev constitution makes a mockery of the flowery guarantees of individual liberties. It reads: "Exercise by citizens of rights and freedoms must not injure the interests of society and the state, and the rights of other citizens." Obviously, this statement gives legal sanction for the KGB to proceed, without having to manufacture pretexts, against dissidents exercising the right of free speech, assembly or religion...