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It also signals an end to the congressional supineness that defined Donald Trump's first two years in office.
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The character of our debates the lethargy and supineness which each succeeding night is exhibited here have been animadverted upon freely and frequently enough.
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Parsley Bay, Sydney Harbour, early 20th century The initial reception in Sydney was cool, even hostile.; ; Tension had grown following Japan's recent military victories in Russia and China, and as in New Zealand, there was considerable suspicion about the party's true purpose.; ; One newspaper demanded their immediate expulsion, and castigated the "supineness" of the government in failing to take immediate action. However, Shirase and his party found support from a wealthy resident in the exclusive suburb of Vaucluse, who permitted them to set up a camp in a corner of his land at Parsley Bay.
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On being invalided from the army in 1867, he started and ran with very little external aid a weekly journal called the London Scotsman (1867–71). His chance as a journalist came when in September 1870 he was despatched to the siege of Metz by the Morning Advertiser (from which paper, however, his services were transferred after a short period to the Daily News). In all the previous reports from battlefields comparatively sparing use had been made of the telegraph. Forbes laments his own supineness in the matter of wiring full details from the scene of operations.
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When McGuire failed to appear for trial in Connecticut in October 1866, the cash bond was forfeited. The Connecticut bondsmen sought relief from the forfeiture on grounds that they were not at fault in failing to secure McGuire's appearance, but rather that his nonappearance was the result of his extradition to Maine—an intervening "act of law" under the Extradition Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court, by a vote of 4 to 3 (two justices recused themselves) held that the sureties were at fault and were not protected by the Extradition Clause. The sureties' "supineness and neglect" in failing to keep up with McGuire and to inform the New York authorities of the pending Connecticut case caused McGuire's nonappearance.
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We believed before > the Exhibition opened that we had the best locks in the world, and among us > Bramah and Chubb were reckoned quite as impregnable as Gibraltar— more so, > indeed, for the key to the Mediterranean was taken by us, but none among us > could penetrate into the locks and shoot the bolts of these masters. The > mechanical spirit, however, is never at rest, and if it is lulled into a > false state of listlessness in one branch of industry, and in one part of > the world, elsewhere it springs up suddenly to admonish and reproach us with > our supineness. Our descendents on the other side of the water are every now > and then administering to the mother country a wholesome filial lesson upon > this very text, and recently they have been "rubbing us up" with a severity > which perhaps we merited for sneering at their shortcomings in the > Exhibition. In 1854 he was awarded a Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers for his paper 'On the Principles and Construction of Locks'.
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