Word: transgressions
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...want him to see our great industrial plants and what we are doing. I want him to see a happy people. I want him to see a free people, doing exactly as they choose, within the limits that they must not transgress the rights of others ... I am just telling you what I-the kind of thing I would like to have him see of America...
...given her that can be so acted. At any rate, she makes it completely credible that, though Tanner regards marriage as "apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat," he should finally agree to transgress his deepest instincts in order to marry...
...solution to the problem would be to include more courses organized on a non-historical basis. Consideration of genres, of traditions, of critical theories, of myths, or of moral ideas are possible approaches which transgress historical decorum and are presently ignored...
...property rights," i.e., its ownership of copyrighted blueprints of new models. "It was never our intention," he added, "to interfere in any way with [the W.S.J.'s] publication of news." On his part, W.S.J. President Bernard Kilgore told Curtice that "[we have] no desire to injure or transgress property rights." Last week, with the misunderstanding straightened out, the W.S.J. was once again getting both the regular flow of G.M. news and the $250,000 a year in ads that G.M. had canceled...
...scene: India's Upper House of Parliament. The issue: U.S. airlift of French reinforcements across Asia to Indo-China. The question from the floor: Would the U.S. Globemasters "transgress" Indian territory? Prime Minister Nehru's reply: "It has been the policy of the government for the past six years not to allow foreign troops to pass through or fly over India." There was indeed such an Indian policy, but Nehru chose to restate it in a desperate hour when his remarks would give sharp offense to the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Parliament got the point; M.P.s cheered...