Word: altering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward said: "How far that entails an obligation, let every man look into his own heart and his own feelings and construe the extent of the obligation for himself," or as echoed by the present Lord Cushendun in 1928: "We are under no obligation and could if we liked alter our attitude. . . . But Britain is not likely to do this because it would be absolutely futile...
What effect the Vestris disaster might have on public confidence in deep-sea voyaging other steamship companies estimated as cheerfully as possible. From their standpoint nothing had changed, unless for the better. The sinking of one ship could not alter the seaworthiness of other ships. If anything, it should tend to make ship inspection, discipline and precautions more thoroughgoing than ever. By the law of averages, another great disaster among all the ships of the world was less likely now than a week before...
...Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...
When passed within the next three months (there being no opposition) this measure will entirely alter the democratic character of the Italian Constitution and Parliament, and will transform the Fascist Party's Grand Council into the superior directing chamber of the State...
...Hearst then elaborated the fact, which every one knows, that the People, not the President, alone can alter the law or the Constitution. He called it "treason" for a Nominee to propose that the law or Constitution should be changed...