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Oh! tell me, Florry, if compulsory service is acceptable to all-seeing God?
For a long time they had nothing more than an advisory authority; but, when, in the fourth century, Christianity had attained to imperial rule, their dictates became compulsory, being enforced by the civil power. By this the whole face of the Church was changed.
His son, the ill- starred Philip, now for ten years long a compulsory sojourner in Spain, was not yet weaned from his affection for his noble parent, but sent messages of affection to him whenever occasion offered, while a less commendable proof of his filial affection he had lately afforded, at the expense of the luckless captain of his Spanish guard.
Because military service is compulsory, the majority of common soldiers are Taiwanese: as career officers grow older and their sons show little interest in an army career, more Taiwan-Chinese are occupying higher army positions. Foreign policy and major political decisions still lie in the hands of mainland Chinese, but economic power, once monopolized by them, is now held by Taiwan-Chinese.
Or think what such an addition means to those working-women from the North, who at the same time protested in Trafalgar Square against the compulsory insurance because the payment of threepence a week would lose them two of their dinners twice the penn'orth of bread and ha'porth of cheese that they always enjoyed for dinner!
At the beginning of his first term as Governor in 1913, Governor Cox said: "It would certainly be common bad faith not to pass a compulsory Workmen's Compensation Law.
Captain Bathurst stated on April 19 that in about four weeks the supplies of potatoes in the country would be entirely exhausted. "The full seriousness of the case now stares English statesmen in the face. Up to now they have believed it possible to exorcise the danger by voluntary economies. Now they find themselves compelled to have recourse to compulsory measures. I believe it is too late."
As a Lower Boy, whenever released from "Compulsory" and House-games, he used to wander with alert eyes and ears up and down the green lanes of Roxeth and Harrow Weald, enjoying fresh glimpses of the far-seen Spire, making friends with cottagers, picking up traditions of an older and more lawless epoch, and, with these, an ever-increasing love and loyalty to Harrow.
Thus, then, began the first extensive emigration of the Irish to various parts of British America a movement quite compulsory, which in our days has become voluntary, and is productive of the wonders soon to claim our attention.
At the urgent entreaty of Pope Stephen III. he entered Italy, subjugated the Lombards, and united the crown of Lombardy to that of France. Upon the pagan Saxons burning the church of Deventer, he commenced a war with them which lasted thirty-three years, and ended in their compulsory Christianization.
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