Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...argued that to allow seizure of territory would be to abandon the Monroe Doctrine. We of the affirmative believe that wherever the Monroe Doctrine conflicts with justice and right, wherever it operates to destroy legal claims, wherever it prevents carrying out an arbitration award, the doctrine must of necessity yield. Yet in arguing for the temporary suspension of the doctrine under the circumstances of our case we are far from advocating its abandonment. We still retain the right to protect South American States when they deserve protection; we can still preserve republican governments when they meet their honest obligations...
...third speech for the affirmative, R. LuV. Lyman said: We of the affirmative have no desire to abandon the Monroe doctrine; we simply say that when it works injustice it ought to yield. The negative has maintained that the retention of this small section of South American territory would be dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland...
...interpret arbitration of South American disputes. By what right does she now insist upon the power to interpret arbitration awards to suit here own selfish interests? The affirmative has taken its stand because we believe that in the lives of men and of nations, personal, selfish considerations must yield to the call of international honesty and fair dealing...
...wise liquor legislation must be the elimination of private profits and restriction of the traffic through means of monopolies with an absolute control of the liquor business. This system has the great advantage of taking away the main stimulus to the increase of the business, since it will not yield its profits to private individuals...
...fullest powers to the outcast woman at the well in Samaria, to the fishermen by the sea of Galilee to the thief upon the cross. He knew that of the seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality of gift he saw the possibility of the prodigality of return. Marvelous words he uttered often went to deaf, unheeding ears, but once his "follow me" entered the heart of Simon Peter on the shore of Galilee...