Word: alterity
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...alter the Immigration Act (several bills including one similar to the bill introduced in the Senate...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC-W alter Hampden relighting Mansfield's torch in the classic romance of Edmond Rostand...
...will be noted that the proposal is in the form of a bill, not an amendment to the Constitution. Senator Borah and Representative Woodruff hope that a bill will be sufficient to secure their end. They claim the bill would affect the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, not alter its power. But since it is a bill, it could, if passed, be nullified by decision of the Supreme Court itself. Then it would have to be repassed in the form of an Amendment. The advocates of the bill feel sure that an Amendment would be unnecessary, because Daniel Webster once...
These two gentlemen with their "regular" Republican supporters can kill radical tax measures in committee. But once they send out on the floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...
...down to a large extent a corrupt civil administrative system and will have gone a long way toward crushing the power of the Tuchuns and reunifying China. Observers have it, however, that the President will be no more than a figurehead and that little will be done to alter conditions now prevalent...