Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is one serious problem: all the lotteries may well be illegal. U.S. law appears to forbid the use of the mails or federally chartered banks in running lotteries. Attorney General William Saxbe, who is not opposed to lotteries but wants to uphold the letter of the law, recently summoned officials from the 13 states to Washington and served notice that within 90 days they must either petition Congress to exempt the lotteries from federal law or face court action. Congress has stalled on similar proposals 30 times in the past ten years. Failing a congressional move, lottery officials will...
...historic St. John's Episcopal Church. He spoke with the same earnest, forthright piety that had moved many listeners in his Inaugural Address a month before. This time the phrases somehow seemed more sonorous: "To do what is right as God gives me to see the right ... to uphold our laws with the help of God." He had searched his conscience, the President said, and "my conscience tells me clearly and certainly that I cannot prolong the bad dreams." Contemplating his own appearance before the bar of divine justice, he declared: "I ... will receive justice without mercy if I fail...
...Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which govern our consciences, are superior to it. As we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience ... to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon. and his loyal wife and family...
Your characterization of Gerald Ford as an "internationalist" libels true internationalists. An internationalist, far from advocating America's responsibility to uphold international law-and-order, believes the best path to peace is through cooperation and communication. Ford's view that the U.S. "must be a force on a worldwide basis to try to maintain peace" is the kind of reasoning that got us into Viet...
...Crimson jock is not an athletic god or goddess. He was not admitted here merely to uphold the honor of the school on its playing fields, and he is not worshipped as such...