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When provisions are high, the people have so much to pay for them that they have little or nothing left to buy clothes with ; and when they have little to buy clothes with, there are few clothes sold ; and when there are few clothes sold, there are too many to sell, they are very cheap ; and when they are very cheap, there cannot be much paid for making them: and that, consequently, the manufacturing working man's wages are reduced, the mills are shut up, business is ruined, and general distress is spread through the country.
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When a convention comes into force as a treaty, it creates a legal obligation for ratifying nations to apply its provisions.
When the enemy ’ s heavy forces marched on December 1762 and arrived at Harnamadi in January 1763, they found all the local houses already evacuated and the area short of food provisions.
When the bill is codified, its various provisions might well be placed in different parts of those various Titles.
When John was forced to sign Magna Carta, Llywelyn was rewarded with several favourable provisions relating to Wales, including the release of his son Gruffydd who had been a hostage since 1211.
When the blockading squadron was forced off by want of provisions, the Spanish admiral Don Juan José Navarro put to sea.
When President Jagan died of a heart attack in March 1997, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds replaced him in accordance with constitutional provisions, with his widow Janet Jagan as Prime Minister.
When it became apparent that, due to a shortage of provisions, they would have to settle on or near Cape Cod, the leaders of the colony decided to draw up the Mayflower Compact to ensure a degree of law and order in this place where they had no legal rights to settle.
When she inherited, at age 65, a fortune from her father, Smith decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: " I hereby make the following provisions for the establishment and maintenance of an Institution for the higher education of young women, with the design to furnish for my own sex means and facilities for education equal to those which are afforded now in our colleges to young men.
# When the UK Parliament is considering legislation extending only ( or having provisions extending only ) to England and Wales, and the Scottish Parliament, being in agreement with those provisions, wishes for the UK Parliament to extend them to Scotland.
When the editor Paul Carroll published BIG TABLE Magazine ( Issue No. 1, Spring 1959 ) alongside former Chicago Review editor Irving Rosenthal, he was found guilty of sending obscene material through the U. S. mail for including " Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch ," a piece of writing the Judicial Officer for the United States Postal Service deemed " undisciplined prose, far more akin to the early work of experimental adolescents than to anything of literary merit " and initially judged it as non-mailable under the provisions of.
When Britain tried to add some of their own ( fearing that the provisions were there only to augment the Soviet air-defences ) they were opposed by the Soviets.
When the Danes stalled and prolonged the fulfillment of some provisions of the Treaty of Roskilde by postponing payments and not blocking foreign fleets from access to the Baltic Sea, and with half of the 2, 000 Danish soldiers that were obliged by Roskilde to enter Swedish service deserting, the Swedish king embarked from Kiel with a force of 10, 000 men on 16 August.
When the Longfellow Bridge replaced the West Boston Bridge in 1907, it included provisions for a future rapid-transit subway link to Harvard Square and Boston ( now the Red Line ); the original Kendall subway station was opened in 1911.
When confronted Russell admitted that his government was attempting to get agreement from the Confederacy to adhere to the provisions of the treaty relating to neutral goods ( but not privateering ), but he denied that this was in any way a step towards extending diplomatic relations to the Confederates.
When Congress organized the Southwest Territory, it had legislated that all of the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance ( except those restricting slavery ) would apply mutatis mutandis to the Southwest Territory.
When Baltimore was threatened, they marched to its defense, but were sent back due to lack of provisions for them in Baltimore.
When in 1888 he defended Munster farmers he was again imprisoned for six months under the provisions of the new Criminal Law Procedure Bill, or Coercion Act.
When the bill was introduced to parliament early in 1892, it was clear that the Unionists had successfully watered down many of its provisions by securing safeguards on their hold on local government.
When there is room for interpretation, the intent of the legislator will be questioned, and the court is supposed to rule in the direction it judges to best fit the legislative intent, which can be difficult in the case of conflicting laws or constitutional provisions.
When Congress accepted the state constitution in 1889, it was so impressed that similar provisions were required for North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.
When Southern Cross returned at the end of January 1900, Borchgrevink decided to abandon the camp, although there were sufficient fuel and provisions left to last another year.
Once World War II broke out it stressed that this was a war for democracy and discouraged emphasis on Hitler's anti-Jewish policies lest a backlash identify it as a " Jewish war " and increase anti-Semitism in the U. S. When the war ended in 1945 it urged a human rights program upon the United Nations and proved vital in enlisting the support that made possible the human rights provisions in the UN Charter.
When legislating for Scotland since the passing of the Act, the British Parliament has to consider whether the Church of Scotland is to be excluded from the provisions.
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When I show up he will know you are a good wife to have told him about it ''.
When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.
When the reactionary response is thus bolstered by an intellectual defense, the characteristics of that defense are explicable only in terms of the basic attitudes of unanalyzed reaction.
When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.
When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.
When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.
When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..
When finally the two bedraggled men reach their friend's home, Voltaire's fears are once again aroused.
`` When are you to leave ''??
When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.
When the aid operations are reorganized the Peace Corps should remain a semi-autonomous, functional unit.
When the budget goes to trustees for approval it is the president's budget, to which his faith and credit are committed ; ;
When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.
When aircraft are no longer helpless on airfields, they are no longer vulnerable to Aj.
When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.
When they're on, the top edges are planed even with the sheer batten.
When painting, Mason's physical eyes are half-closed, while his mind's eye is wide open, and this circumstance accounts in part for the impression he wishes to convey.
When improvements are recommended in working conditions -- such as lighting, rest rooms, eating facilities, air-conditioning -- do you try to set a measure of their effectiveness on productivity??
When sufficiently accurate and complete measurements are available, it will be possible to set limits on the thermal and electrical characteristics of the surface and subsurface materials of the moon.
When some thirteen records of newly and recently born individuals are collated, little or no correlation between length and distribution can be detected.
When three dice are tossed repeatedly, what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1, or 2, or 3 )??
0.402 seconds.