Word: sovereignly
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...Ritchie, living off his capital in order to pursue a treatise on the magnetic powers of crystals, is amusingly handled by Alan Napier. James and Sarah, who have both inherited their father's sovereign contempt for details, are well played by Robert Duke and Patricia Wheel, though the parts are largely foils for Miss Johns...
...ambassadors and twelve ministers accredited to the world's sovereign nations. To those nations, the face and voice of each ambassador is the voice and face...
...foreseeable future, Japan is solidly encamped with the free world. But she is going to stay in camp on her own terms. Unfortunately stubborn SCAP brass give little if any indication that they appreciate the difference between an army of occupation and a security force in a sovereign nation. The occupiers' unwillingness to give up the privileges-the luxury houses, the cheap and plentiful servants, the free schools-they have enjoyed for six years is understandable enough; the men who have run the most benevolent occupation in history have little to apologize for. But they have...
...namely, its mutability. But this is already enough to make the entire human race, which is the peak and the rational expression of both the macrocosm and the microcosm, become conscious of its Exalted Maker, realize that it belongs to Him . . . and then, falling on its knees before His Sovereign Majesty, begin to invoke His name...
Until sterling went off the gold standard in 1931, the Bank of England held sovereign sway over Britain's economy. Whenever the nation seemed to be living beyond its means, the bank tightened the money supply, and cut down purchasing power by the same measures it instituted last week. But after sterling's fall, the money power passed to the Treasury. The bank was compelled to buy all government securities at pegged rates from the market. In 1947, Sir Stafford Cripps relieved the bank of the obligation to buy long-term bonds at pegged prices. But until last...