Word: warrantable
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...mutual destruction could be avoided and a political system which is anathema to the powers could be crushed. It is this possibility which has caused the recent outbreak of political hypochondria in Moscow; and even though it is only a possibility, it is still of sufficient magnitude to warrant the case of jitters that it has provoked. NEMO...
...sorry," said Mr. Jurney, explaining that he could not make the arrest because he had left the warrant in his office safe at the Capitol. Besides the warrant called for delivering Mr. MacCracken "forthwith" before the bar of the Senate and that was now impossible since the Senate was not in session. Mr. Mac-Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand...
...overnight and surprised actors learned that their new director was to be the chief of the secret police. Said a government official: "While admitting the play's merits, we feel that the Comédie Francaise has been presenting Coriolanus much more often than its purely dramatic qualities warrant...
Connections between sewage and water pipes have since been cut. But, said the committee: "Unless the antiquated plumbing and conditions of food-handling found in Hotels C and A are remedied, there seems to be no warrant that a recurrence of the outbreak here considered may not develop under similar conditions...
...disproportionate both to the remainder of the examination and to the amount of reading supposedly done during the reading period. The relation of the scope of the regular work in the course to the ground covered in the two week preceding the midyear period is not such as to warrant the setting aside of a whole hour from the examination to test the student's knowledge of the latter. On the other hand, even an hour, in many courses, is by no means a sufficient length of time for an intelligent discussion of the work done during the reading period...