Word: sop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint conference wound up its work on the tax reduction and turned out a compromise that, it was thought, would pass both Houses. The Democratic tit was left in exchange for the Republicans being allowed to retain their tat. Each group was given a sop such as was most likely to secure its vote...
...mitigate the offense taken by the Japanese in the least. The fact that we consider immigration to be entirely a domestic issue will not soften their dislike of the proposed act. Admittedly the only reason for postponing the date of exclusion is to throw some sort of diplomatic sop, to permit the Japanese Government to save its face. Theoretically, the question over a date for Japanese exclusion is ridiculous; practically, it is serious. Undoubtedly Ambassador Hanihara when he committed the colossal diplomatic blunder of speaking about "grave consequences" if the bill were passed, spoke little but the truth. The essence...
...question of tact," was the sentiment expressed. "Let us compromise by giving us what we want, and giving Japan a sop for her feelings...
House of Commons. The Labor Ministry in Parliament takes frequent falls, but it goes on. It suffered defeat, 221 to 212, on the question of a Rent Bill. As a sop to its left wing, the "Clydesiders," the Ministry proposed a clause whereby no tenant could be evicted for nonpayment of rent, provided he could show that he was unable to pay because of unemployment. The Liberals joined the conservatives in denouncing this clause as "Socialism" and "confiscation." The Government would have met defeat at that point, but John R. Clynes filibustered until the House was obliged to adjourn...
...abstraction, nearly settles down to a third Not from moral motives--that would be too Victorian--but merely for her own selfish happiness, she at length decides to return to home and her legal mate. Thus the book ends in a commonplace as a sop to the censorious...