Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What probably saved the government was the knowledge that the resignation of Faure, a member of the moderate Left, might compel the right-wing parties to form their own government. This in turn would probably consolidate the non-Communist Left (Socialists, left-wing Catholics, some Radicals) against them in a coalition led by ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Whatever happens in Morocco, or anywhere else, the right-wingers are determined to keep energetic little Mendès from climbing back to power. The right-wing game is to use Faure (a fellow Radical of Mend...
...House of Lords," and as usual Everyone admitted that "something" ought to be done. Last week, the government-in the person of the Lords' Tory leader, the Marquis of Salisbury-moved that a committee be appointed to study what powers, if any, the Lords had to compel their members to attend sessions. Guy Fawkes and his powder barrels could not have created more alarm...
...second aim should be to repeal the compulsory school attendance law; we should not leave in the Code any provision that might compel Virginia parents, white or Negro, to send their children to any given school against their will...
Previously two lawyers who are trustees of Suter's estate had petitioned the court to compel the student to take the money. They said that if he did not accept the inheritance it would destroy the trust and amount to alienation of income in violation of the personal property...
...weeks ago the House of Representatives asked the Justices to make this advisory opinion before it took any final action on the bill, which would compel both public and private schools and colleges to dismiss teachers refusing to testify about their Communist affiliations...