Word: submit
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...past two years, I have had problems with the janitor assigned to provide services to us, viz. refusal to work and deliberate delays, which I may characterize stems from arrogance. Most tenants who have similar problems do not submit a written complaint. However, I have made several verbal complaints and +++ some in writing...
William Paterson of New Jersey opened the small states' attack on June 9 by proposing a reconsideration of proportional representation. "New Jersey will never confederate on the plan," he declared. "She would be swallowed up. I will never consent to the present system . . . Myself or my state will never submit to tyranny or despotism." The supporters of the Virginia plan were no less vehement. "Are not the citizens of Pennsylvania equal to those of New Jersey?" demanded James Wilson of Pennsylvania. "Does it require 150 of the former to balance 50 of the latter? . . . If the small states will...
Today the Court cuts the heart out of two of the most important and inseparable safeguards the Bill of Rights offers a criminal defendant: the right to submit his case to a jury, and the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt . . . The skeleton of these safeguards remains, but the Court strips them of life and of meaning . . . The Court asserts that when a jury votes nine to three for conviction, the doubts of the three do not impeach the verdict of the nine. ((But)) we know what has happened: the prosecutor has tried and failed to persuade those jurors...
North bluntly informed the House and Senate committees that he would not submit to interrogation by staff lawyers, as have all other witnesses, in closed sessions that were to begin last Thursday. His lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, argued that in private interrogation North would not have the limited immunity from prosecution that he has been guaranteed as a witness before the full panel...
...obviously that would take much time." Finding North in contempt would trigger further court action that might take until October or later. Simply questioning North in public session could still produce an effective, if longer, interrogation, said Inouye. Lawyers for both sides discussed a compromise that would have North submit to limited questioning in private, but no agreement had been reached at week's end. Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel, indicated he and his colleagues would resist any plan under which "North would be dictating the procedures...