Word: transcending
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...questions raised by the report, however, transcend personalities. They have to do with the general welfare. One of the grave questions was how large a Government program could be imposed on the nation without weakening U.S. democratic principles. Could the U.S. insure itself against war without turning into an authoritarian state...
...rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...
...Commission will control the three huge plants in Washington, Tennessee, and New Mexico, and their bomb production, and will have power to strike out in experiment of any nature. As Lilienthal wrote, "The consequences of our work, for good or evil, are awesome." The operations of such a board transcend all party lines. Republicans are as susceptible to death by radiation as Democrats...
...Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should transcend the limitations of the small people who first conceived it, and become at last the guarantor of justice to all sorts and conditions of men; imperium, the principle of a dominion that can enable all manner of races, languages and faiths to live together within the bounds of a single...
Congressmen took another look at an old, controversial question-should the rights of labor be allowed to transcend the rights of the public to electricity, fuel, transportation, telephones? There was nothing hypothetical about the problem-the U.S. had just seen what weird things happen when a big city is denied even one essential service for a short time...