Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concluded Diario de Manhā: "It is legitimate that nations like Portugal protest pretensions affecting their dignity and rights of national sovereignty, and affirm aloud before the world their will and right to resist any aggression, no matter where it comes from...
What happened next depended on the stiffness of the Marshal's spine. He sent his new No. 2 man, Admiral Jean Darlan, to Paris to try to soften Hitler's demands. The Admiral had no sooner arrived than he stated flatly: "I affirm that the French Fleet is absolutely and will remain under complete French jurisdiction and that it will defend the Empire against any challenge whatsoever." But Admiral Darlan had authority to agree to Laval's reinstatement provided Marshal Pétain retained supreme power...
...unnecessary for us to remind you of your pledge to keep this country out of war, and of the vigorous determination for peace expressed in the last election by the American people, but in this storm of war propaganda we think that we should affirm to you our own earnest conviction that aid to Britain must be kept short...
...went on to review Willkie's aims and promises, to affirm that Wendell Willkie could and would keep his promises. They heard of a promise which had not been previously heralded: that Wendell Willkie would give labor full representation in his Government; of "a reasonable hope" that three pro-Willkie, hitherto antiC. I. O. steelmakers (Grace, Girdler, Weir) "will soon execute collective-bargaining contracts with...
Such notices have to be posted every 17 years, Durant explained, in order to affirm the University's title. Otherwise, after a certain period of time the state may claim that the title has lapsed through public...