Word: restrainedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes down to this. If a nation is a sovereign power in a free and independent state, and if that government is willing and able to fulfill its international obligations by agreeing to restrain from all propaganda and aggression, by guaranteeing safety of life and property to foreigners, by offering guarantees to trade and by acknowledging its public debts,--that nation merits recognition. Therefore its form of government, its internal policies, its system of production, its history, and our own likes and dislikes must not be permitted to dictate the foreign policy of the American people. The consideration...
...capitalists will have to pay you." Even granting that such assertions are not characteristic of all unionism, Mr. Gompers' plea that labor be saved from the courts might almost be paraphrased into "saving the cities from labor." To arouse men to rioting and then to try to restrain them, is rather like a small boy who skates as close as possible to a danger sign and then says he did not mean...
...country there have been two traditions of liberty, the Washingtonian and the Jeffersonian. The Washingtonian school believes in allowing a man to restrain himself, and the Jeffersonian in altering and finally removing the government. The only remedy for this pseudo-liberal appeal to the idyllic imagination is a strictly Socratic critical definition...
...advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern for the world's peace and a deep consciousness of the power of the United States to restrain the dangerous ambitions of nations which still have the taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind who represent Great Britain as a centre of imperialistic intrigue and commercial plotting have no higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial...
...able to deal effectively with the matter. Under the present plan General Wood would be made High Commissioner of Armenia. He would be instructed by the League as to the general policy to be followed, and would be expected to strengthen Armenia so that she could defend herself, yet restrain her from becoming too aggressive in her turn. If he accepts the position, he will be asked to assume his duties immediately...