Word: binding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost a friend, said the journals. France was isolated. The proposed economic convention was not unfavorable to Belgium. France was to yield 10% on import duties of 140 articles while Belgium was to yield on only a few articles. But it was felt that the convention would bind Belgium to France as against either England or Germany...
...breaking of the chains that now bind the Church to the State in times of crisis...
...High, approving the action of the student pacifists at Indianapolis, said that he himself would refuse to go to war. If enough people could be induced to bind themselves together for the same ideal, he said, war would be made absurdly impossible...
...domestic policy, moved by Ramsey MacDonald, the Laborite Leader of the Opposition, by 285 to 190 votes. Subsequently Mr. Lloyd George condemned the proposed dissolution as " ill-considered, precipitate, foolish." " Can lobsters, crayfish and crabs," he demanded in referring to the results of the Imperial Conference (TIME, Nov. 19), "bind the Empire by trade? It is a tinker's policy. The Government is going to the country with a tin can tied to its tail...
...highest authority in finance in their respective countries, men of such prestige, experience and honor that their agreement upon the amount to be paid and upon a financial plan for working out the payments would be accepted throughout the world as the most authoritative expression obtainable? Governments need not bind themselves in advance to accept the recommendations...