| 单词 | dead letter |
| 例句 | “If you can persuade them to pass new laws, the old ones will be a dead letter.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For centuries since, the bulging boxes of those undelivered letters, seized from around 35,000 ships, sat neglected in British government storage, a kind of half-forgotten dead letter office for intercepted mail. Long-Lost Letters Bring Word, at Last 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z It was largely a dead letter in the 19th century, when an unsympathetic Supreme Court sharply limited its reach. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z Which means that unless we experience some kind of unprecedented sea change in the pathological tribalism that now defines our politics, impeachment is a dead letter. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Today a handful of states retain provisions in their constitutions barring atheists from holding public office, but they are dead letters and may not be enforced. Five people who fought the Christian takeover of America 2012-08-16T17:47:00Z But "Turn" goes back to a time when state-of-the-art tradecraft consisted of invisible ink, laundry on washing lines, and dead letter boxes. George Washington's spy ring comes alive in AMC drama 'Turn' 2014-04-04T22:28:17Z Now is the glorious Summer of Trump, and I need to sort out this matter of nomenclature and apprise you of the dead letters that continue to arrive at my door and my inbox. Dear Eric Trump, I am not you: Life as the Doppelgänger of a Trump scion 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z That effort would involve rallying deeply anti-spending Republicans around a stopgap funding bill that is likely to be a dead letter in the Democratic-controlled Senate. House Republicans Clash Over Spending Days Ahead of Shutdown Deadline 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z "As a result, the YCC framework seems to have become more of a dead letter." Analysis: Japan unshackles its sliding bond market 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z They think the law is an unenforceable dead letter, but worry that conservative judges won’t see it that way. How a 150-Year-Old Law Against Lewdness Became a Key to the Abortion Fight 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Her proposals to expand the state’s Medicaid coverage for another 150,000 people have been dead letters for top Republicans. Democratic Kansas Gov. Kelly to start 2nd term; Kobach is AG 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z During the first week in January, when the next term opens, it will be a dead letter. Column: The Trump subpoena sets the stage for a historic battle over executive privilege. Here's why it won't happen 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z “The city attorney can essentially decide to make it dead letter.” Two outsider candidates vie to become L.A. city attorney 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Speaking after the signing ceremony, senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad vowed the agreement "will be implemented and will not remain a dead letter", describing the years of division as a "cancer." Palestinian rivals agree to hold elections but doubts persist 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z While the law had been a dead letter since the U.S. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer set to veto funding for adoption, pro-life pregnancy centers 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z That law was an unenforceable dead letter as long as Roe made abortion a federal constitutional right, but the state legislature never formally repealed it and thus it is now Wisconsin law again. States divided on abortion restrictions, future uncertain in many places 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z But a common law - resisted both by the country's Hindu majority and Muslims, the main minority - has remained, in the words of the Supreme Court, a "dead letter". UCC: The coming storm over a single common law in India 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z "Our actions aren't idle words or dead letters on the page," he said. Abramovich's jet among 100 planes grounded by US 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Today, with thousands of Ukrainians sheltering in bunkers across the country and with millions forced from their homes, the document appears to be a dead letter. Russia’s invasion drives NATO rethink of Europe force stance 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “It could be a dead letter,” she said, suggesting that it would just be ignored. Abortion access still difficult after historic Mexico ruling 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Arguing the need for a federal court system, he added, “Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.” Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1880s, the Supreme Court either invalidated those laws or rendered them a dead letter. Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Just Doing What the Supreme Court Does 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But Build Back Better is, at this point, a dead letter. Opinion | Can Democrats See What’s Coming? 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Without Mexico’s cooperation, it’s a dead letter, and it’s hard to imagine the administration pushing Mexican officials very hard to reestablish a program that neither side much liked to begin with. Opinion | ‘Remain in Mexico’ may be returning, but Biden must not repeat history 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Police reform may be a dead letter in the U.S. Police reform by another name: COVID mandates causing cops to complain — and quit 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Arguing the need for a federal court system, he added, “Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.” Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z So if the debt ceiling is a dead letter because it contravenes the Constitution, what is to stop the government from borrowing beyond it in order to honor its debts? Opinion | The debt-ceiling onus should be on the Republicans 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z He has not suggested his election task force is a dead letter — even if it has quietly disappeared from his website, where it once was the centerpiece. Opinion | Youngkin is saying the right thing on election fraud. So is election integrity still his ‘top priority’? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z “Right now, Roe v. Wade is effectively a dead letter in Texas,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement. Federal appeals court ruling nearly triggers Idaho abortion law 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z By 1964, when the Supreme Court decided Sullivan, seditious libel looked like it had become a dead letter. How dissent gets criminalized: America's right to insult the government is under attack 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z This last limitation, part of the curious Slave-Trade Compromise the Framers struck at Philadelphia, has been a dead letter for more than two centuries. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan should be a “dead letter” for the agency, he added. Postal Service Plans Price Increases and Service Cuts to Shore Up Finances 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The old agreement, which was negotiated in the ’70s, was a dead letter. 'A fight can be worthwhile.' What lessons WGA learned from its battle with agencies 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z "Trump is so far undeterred by electoral defeat — and practically speaking, the 25th Amendment is a dead letter because it relies on his own hand-picked toadies," Sykes argues. As Trump's behavior grows increasingly unhinged, conservative considers case for 2nd impeachment 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Hurchalla’s must be an exception, lest the First Amendment become a dead letter in Florida and, indeed, throughout the nation. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z With the Senate likely staying under Republican control, any attempt at social democracy in the United States will be a dead letter, at least for the near term. This era’s capitalism is driving many among the young to socialism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z But that fact only underscored the Republican failure, in the eyes of critics, to meet Democrats halfway on a new and direly needed coronavirus relief bill, which appears a dead letter. Republican officials finally forced into action on Covid-19 as reality bites 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The Lawrence decision is all the more tragic because the last resort of executive clemency has become a dead letter in Florida. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Gore has never been the dead letter it's popularly perceived to be, and it could be a factor in a number of election battles this year. Why Bush v. Gore Still Matters in 2020 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “There is no avoiding a simple truth: the right to counsel is a dead letter for a majority of the pretrial detainees at MDC and MCC,” the letter said. New York public defenders say unable to reach inmates in federal jails 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z And an administration official familiar with the talks said the Pelosi bill was a “dead letter” in the Senate discussions. ‘It’s about COVID’: Pelosi retreats on stimulus ‘wish list’ 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z The U.S. commitment to defend the archipelago from external aggression would become a dead letter, handing China a strategic windfall. Opinion | One of the most important U.S. alliances in Asia has been endangered 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z By the end of the 19th century, the 15th Amendment was a dead letter throughout the South. Opinion | The Equality That Wasn’t Enough 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z It arrives in the Senate as a dead letter anyway. House passes Puerto Rico aid in face of Trump veto threat 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Were these powers beyond the reach of the people’s power, impeachment would be a dead letter. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The sign prohibiting photography was clearly a dead letter. I 'stormed' Area 51 and it was even weirder than I imagined 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Macron clearly wanted to use the Group of 7 forum to show the world that neither are dead letters. How Emmanuel Macron Positioned Himself as Star of the G7 Show 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Trump’s budget is widely seen as a dead letter on Capitol Hill, where the Democratic-majority House of Representatives will kill it, but Trump’s proposals are likely to follow him into his 2020 presidential reelection campaign. Democrats blast safety net cuts in Trump budget as 'malicious' 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Obama’s attempt to play Caesar in domestic policy had more mixed results, since the immigration power grab was tied up by the courts until Trump’s election rendered some of it a dead letter. Opinion | The Limp Caudillo 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “Some say it’s now almost a dead letter.” How a South Korean security law is becoming obsolete amid thaw with... 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z "So actually it is a dead letter. That is a shame, because a children's pardon sounds like something great for children, but in practice it is meaningless." Dutch church holds 24/7 service to shield asylum-seekers 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “Without a living memory, there will be no future, for if the darkest pages of history do not teach us to avoid the same errors, human dignity will remain a dead letter,” he said. Pope condemns anti-Semitism amid increase in attacks on Jews 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Too many people on the left believe that democracy is a dead letter. Author David Neiwert on the outbreak of political violence: Expect “an intense period of terror... 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z They also said that the Indian Constitution was not a “collection of mere dead letters,” and that it should evolve with time. India Gay Sex Ban Is Struck Down. ‘Indefensible,’ Court Says. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Alabama as a dead letter, inapplicable to other cases. The Threat to Privacy of Opinion 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z “Its continued existence, even as a constitutional dead letter, is symbolic of the latent sexism we don’t like to admit still informs our society,” Niamh Egleston, a law student in Dublin, said. Irish feminists target 'women in the home' clause in constitution 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The Logan Act has “been a dead letter for hundreds of years,” Mr. McConnell said. Trump Calls Kerry’s Push for Iran Deal ‘Possibly Illegal.’ Legal Scholars Shrug. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z The forthcoming summit between the two countries is now a dead letter. Chemical Arms Experts Blocked From Site of Syria Attack 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In one of the cases, Justice Potter Stewart felt it necessary to declare that the Contract Clause “remains part of the Constitution. It is not a dead letter.” The Supreme Court’s Chance to Rebuild a ‘Constitutional Bulwark’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z “Nothing would be worse that to see this resolution remain a dead letter,” Delattre said. UN security council votes unanimously for month-long Syria ceasefire 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z In other words, as long as Republicans control Congress, constitutional checks and balances are effectively a dead letter. Keep up resistance, and we’ll be OK 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z If this kind of commonplace and unavoidable information-sharing is sufficient to extinguish constitutional privacy rights, the digital-age fourth amendment will soon be a dead letter. Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “Judge Watson’s order renders the Supreme Court’s decision all but a dead letter.” Donald Trump’s travel ban to head back to Supreme Court 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Former Lincoln Postmaster Doug Emery said that mail can sometimes accidentally get lost within the system or sit in a dead letter office for a while. Century-old letter appears in Lincoln mail carrier’s stack 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z But if Israelis view settlements such as Ariel as fixtures in their national landscape — that is, as parts of their country — the peace process is a dead letter. Opinion | For 50 years, Israelis have clashed over the West Bank. The expansionists have won. 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Where no one at Higher had directed anyone to open Hal’s dead letter to figure out who his next of kin were and what their wishes might be, as far as notification went. “Crossing the River No Name” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z It "weakened and incapacitated" football's world governing body, adding that "Fifa's code of ethics is a dead letter". Fifa: Ousted ethics chiefs were investigating 'hundreds' of cases 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But if you listen to almost any recent commentary, you would think that the law in question — 1799’s Logan Act — is essentially a dead letter. Opinion | Many think this law is obsolete. It could actually be a big problem for Trump. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z And under Trump, the guidance is a dead letter, an administration official recently told the Guardian. 'They're going to kill me next': Yemen family fears drone strikes under Trump 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “If Mr. Trump can legally ban an entire region of the world, he would render Congress’s vision of unbiased legal immigration a dead letter.” President Trump’s Immigration Order, Annotated 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Instead, he announces that the nuclear deal is a dead letter, effective immediately. Iranian connection in the age of Trump: How will the president-elect address the Iran nuclear deal? 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z But if Social Security cuts were a dead letter in the recently concluded election, after Trump’s still-not-quite-believable victory things look somewhat different. GOP’s big overreach is coming: Another terrible new plan to “save” Social Security by destroying it 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z “The rest of the Voting Rights Act will become a dead letter,” Ackerman suggested, adding that he expects nothing less than a wholesale rollback of “the fundamental achievements of the Second Reconstruction.” This Trump tweet signals a major assault on voting. Here’s what it might look like. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Without American action, however, The Hague’s verdict is a dead letter. Resisting the revisionists: Finally, a first step 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z If not, the OAS will merely have demonstrated that Latin America’s commitment to collective action to uphold democracy is a dead letter. The Venezuela test 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The U.S. and its allies need countermeasures ready for the likely event that Chinese dredgers, ships and military aircraft turn the U.N. verdict into a dead letter. Impasse in Shangri-La 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Unless Congress calls an extraordinary session and the laws are passed by May 28th, Mr Peña’s vaunted new National Anti-corruption System, enshrined in a constitutional amendment last year, will become a dead letter. Stop stealing 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Bell, though basically a dead letter, has never been formally overruled. Shining a light on one of the high court’s darkest moments 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Apple has refused to comply, saying the order to create such software, effectively a skeleton key, for one iPhone would in fact leave all iPhones vulnerable and make encryption a dead letter. The NYPD’s “Big Brother” problem is getting even worse 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The nuclear deal will become a dead letter even as Mr. Obama insists on fulfilling our end of the bargain. America’s Year of Living Dangerously 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z They build on her "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" series about a dead letter office where long-delayed mail arrives at strangely appropriate moments because of some divine intervention. Writer-producer Martha Williamson has the right touch 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z “Maybe the separation of powers isn’t a dead letter after all,” observes the editorial board. The Republican Debate 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Maybe the separation of powers isn’t a dead letter after all. The Separation of Obama’s Power 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The Iran nuclear deal is officially just nine days old, but according to our columnist Bret Stephens, “It’s already a dead letter.” Carly Attacks Clintonomics 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The court ruled that the section was based on outdated data and, because Congress hasn’t passed a formula to replace it, the pre-clearance requirement is effectively a dead letter. Bernie Sanders, Martin Luther King III say Voting Rights Act needs progress 50 years after enactment 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z By the time it does, it could be a dead letter – at least with respect to the United States. Nuke the Deal 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z A more solid foundation than the Constitution, now largely a dead letter, might be the precedent of Ivan Karamazov, who, it I remember correctly, said, " If God does not exist, then everything is permissible." What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court’s Gay-Marriage Case 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Famously, within weeks of its signing, Magna Carta was a dead letter. Just how important was Magna Carta? 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The judges, however, dismissed arguments that the delay was caused by an “overburdened system,” saying the VA essentially put their court order in a “dead letter” box. Appeals court holds VA secretary in contempt 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Thus, if tax credits are unavailable, the employer mandate becomes a dead letter. Employer Mandate, Not Obamacare Tax Credit, Real Issue Before Supreme Court 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z “If ever there was a legal ‘dead letter’ emanating from the Supreme Court,” the Baker order “is a prime candidate,” she wrote. Traditional marriage groups use Baker to defend states’ rights 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Daughtrey dismisses Baker as a “dead letter” that “lacks only a stake through its heart.” Sutton's Last Stand: Judge In Same-Sex Marriage Case Declines To Overrule Democracy 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The ruling threatened to turn the landmark civil rights law into a virtual dead letter. What Holder meant for voting rights 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z But my guess is that the bills are already a dead letter. Congress Moves To Reform The IRS 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z His pivot to Asia remains a dead letter. Who made the pivot to Asia? Putin. “Microsoft essentially decided that whatever privacy expectation that its own customers supposedly had was basically a dead letter. It simply decided that in its own corporate interest, it can intrude on a person’s email.” Microsoft Software Leak Inquiry Raises Privacy Issues 2014-03-21T01:00:30Z Instead, it let inflation turn it, in Mr. Weidenbaum’s words, into “an effective dead letter.” Economic Scene: Dwindling Tools to Raise Wages 2013-12-11T01:33:26Z There are powerful forces in Washington that consider individual liberty passé and the Constitution a dead letter. First woman South Carolina military school graduate to challenge senator 2013-08-03T19:02:42Z "In their actions, more outrageous and numerous by the day, this administration continues to treat the US constitution as a dead letter." US lawmakers call for review of Patriot Act after NSA surveillance revelations 2013-06-10T22:20:27Z In their actions, more outrageous and numerous by the day, this administration continues to treat the US constitution as a dead letter. NSA's Verizon surveillance: how the White House tramples our constitution 2013-06-07T10:45:01Z The root trouble here – for Cameron, Clegg, Miliband and Fleet Street, not to mention Hacked Off – is that trust seems a dead letter in this arena. At last, a press charter that's worth supporting 2013-04-27T23:05:42Z That U.N. plan was long seen as a dead letter, foundering from the outset over the question of whether the transitional body would include Assad or his allies. Syria opposition leader rejects Moscow invitation 2012-12-29T00:52:17Z But the legislation looked to be a dead letter in the Senate and earned a White House veto threat. House GOP Plans Vote on Fiscal Cliff 'Plan B' 2012-12-20T17:35:31Z “The Democratic Party in Alabama is a dead letter at this point,” he said. An Obama Champion, Now in Romney's Camp 2012-08-28T18:06:25Z Wherefore we see in fact that these statutes are a dead letter or are ill-kept at the best. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z A portion of the shore had been set apart for this "playing with fire," but within a year even this had become a dead letter. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z In central and upper Italy, therefore, his laws were for the most part virtually a dead letter. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z This fiendish legislation was hailed by the Church with acclamation, and was not allowed to remain, like its predecessors, a dead letter. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Practically speaking, the new law ordering cabmen to display a flag, on which is painted their tariff per mile and per hour, is a dead letter. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z He expressed his delight at seeing that his regulation was not a dead letter, and that it had animated his petitioner to exertion. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Much of the symbolism of the Old Testament is identical with the Eastern tree-worship; and without some knowledge of this form of imagery much of the Hebrew Scriptures must remain a dead letter. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The provision of Henry I.'s charter that reliefs should be just and reasonable had become a dead letter. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The Church took care that this legislation should not remain a dead letter. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Said Mohammed was determined "to do credit to the establishment," as he put it; he would show the guests "that the resources of civilization were not dead letter in African wilds." Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z Anatomy was deemed worse than useless, and the established doctrines of various schools a dead letter. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The joy of others seems an insult, their grief a dead letter, compared with my own. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The provision remained a dead letter, for the reason that the electors were indifferent to the Emperor's purposes in the matter. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Nor did he allow this to remain a dead letter. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Unfortunately this salutary legislation remained a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z "Then let us receive the Lord's Supper! but the sexton is not to be thought of; quick, quick! let no one stumble at the form; I have never held to the dead letter!" The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z Thus records of prime truths remain a dead letter to plain folk; the writers have left so much to the imagination, and imagination is so rare a gift. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z As a case of independence the Kentish custom is quite complete, and manorial documents show on every page that it was anything but a dead letter. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Since the battalion had become so highly trained, Lord Clare's ingenious invention with respect to the testimony of a single witness was a dead letter. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But the estates felt that the maintenance of their liberties demanded more substantial guarantees than the dead letter of ancient laws. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z The Geary Law, however, failed to provide the ways and means for carrying it into effect, so that the probability is it will remain a dead letter upon the statute book. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z For the want of them in us, half the laws that touched our daily lives had become dead letters or vehicles of blackmail and oppression. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z Nor did this acquisition remain a dead letter with her; it awakened the most zealous wish for proselytising. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z It also repealed an act which, although it had been the subject of repeated legislation, had proved a dead letter. The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 2012-02-04T03:00:17.917Z The Inspectors who might be appointed would never be allowed to exercise any real control, and the rules which the State might prescribe would remain dead letter. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z This with much other of my best literary work has remained a dead letter on my own shelves. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z This bull, however, remained for a considerable period nearly a dead letter, and the Hospitallers never obtained a twentieth part of the antient possessions of the Templars. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Hundreds of people have been killed since Syria first agreed to the Arab plan, most of whose provisions remain a dead letter. Arab monitors "buy time" for Assad: Syria opposition 2012-01-09T13:35:24Z Otherwise, as you foreigners know to your cost, they remain a dead letter. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The new law lost much of its power in twelve months of such conflicts; and it was reduced almost to a dead letter by Personal Liberty bills, which were enacted in nearly every Northern State. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z This decree remained a dead letter, and two years later the franc was definitively adopted as the base of the French system. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z After two weeks among the Mohammedans and other heathen, with every day a working day and the English Sunday a dead letter, we had lost all trace of dates. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z How to dispose of dead letters and how to get back into their proper channel letters that had been missent were questions which not seldom perplexed even Allen himself. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Finally he made up his mind to mail it; but it was returned from the dead letter office, for he had forgotten to address it. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z This was already a dead letter; and the theatres had announced with perfect safety twenty years before, in their playbills, "We defy the law." Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z As a matter of fact the ordinance remained practically in great part a dead letter. The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 2011-12-24T03:07:52.717Z But this injunction was often treated as a dead letter up to the close of the century in which it was issued. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z By France the engagement was treated as a dead letter. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z These practices are not dead letters, except that the custom of sojourning within the church for three nights before mass has, in Constantinople at least, been reduced to a single night. Armenian Legends and Festivals 2011-11-26T03:00:13.237Z If every Sunday law were a dead letter, it ought to be repealed, because it tends to bring needed laws into contempt; but among recent results of Sunday legislation are the following. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z The Confiscation Act remained, however, practically a dead letter, except as to the freeing of the slaves. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Hamilton declared this to be the crowning defect of the old government, for laws, he very properly added, are a dead letter without courts to expound their true meaning and define their operations. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z The reform of the penny post was soon followed by that of the dead letter office. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z They attach extraordinary value to certain points in Muḥammad's teaching and emphasise them so as to leave the others almost a dead letter. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z This new provocation was that the north be induced to make the fugitive slave law a dead letter. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z This provision, of course, became a dead letter and was repealed in 1834. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z How different it is in a Republic!" he continued; "there the law reigns, the dead letter, a cold majority, a chance. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z How, before that year, dead letters were treated is perhaps one of the obscurest points of Post Office practice. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Are moral and national obligations anything more than mere dead letters and leaden rules, which can be bent by hands strong enough to do so, and to suit their own purposes and designs? Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z They speak, His true, of the spirit of reconciliation and the Church, but they halt by the dead letter. John Ronge: The Holy Coat Of Treves New German-Catholic Chruch 2011-10-12T02:00:44.710Z They were for show and nothing more; and they remained practically a dead letter. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Henceforth, the penalties denounced against the profession by the early councils were no longer suffered to remain a dead letter, but were enforced with the most merciless severity. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z About the same time the dead letter office received most valuable help in the discharge of its duties from the publication of what was, virtually, the first County Directory. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z Much apprehension had been caused by the establishment of a permanent committee for foreign affairs in the Bundesrat, over which the Bavarian representative was to preside; but the clause remained a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z Why, she never dines out that the society column of half-a-dozen newspapers does not record it, and her name would be very far from a dead letter. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z In Swift’s time, residence had not been encouraged; statutes to enforce it remained on the statute-book, but they were a dead letter. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z Plovers’ eggs, again, are an article of commerce in the spring; they are protected now by law, but it is to be feared that the enactment is to a great extent a dead letter. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z All the little animation I ever had seems to have departed; and, although my mind is crowded with thoughts, they are a dead letter when I attempt to use them for purposes of conversation. Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. 2011-08-02T02:00:25.157Z Nevertheless, it is almost a dead letter, with great historic interest but with no practical significance. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z The Act would become a dead letter if the judges allowed obstacles to be thrown in the way of carrying it out. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z GOP conservatives reveled in their victory, however temporary it may be, since the plan faces a White House veto threat and is a dead letter in the Senate anyway. Obama Signals Openness to Short-Term Debt Extension 2011-07-20T18:24:23Z The extreme severity with which they exercised those powers, in more than one instance, proves that they were not a dead letter.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Something to do with a dead letter office? What does Hollywood want with old arcade games? 2011-07-12T14:34:00Z They are a dead letter on the statute-books, and the illegal and illegitimate slaughter goes on unchecked. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z Christianity was not a religion of a sacred book, whose dead letter was to be artificially kept alive by learned men. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z And the statute against witchcraft passed under James the First was not repealed until the reign of George the Second, though by that time it was indeed practically a dead letter. Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore 2011-07-06T02:00:50.100Z The Molasses Act of 1733 had been practically a dead letter from the date of its passage and the other navigation acts had been frequently violated. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z Although the decree of Perpetual Peace could not be carried into effect immediately, it was not a dead letter, as all former decrees of the kind had been. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z And what but “the dead letter,” as this hierophant of mystic senses asperses the free inventions of genius, can now interest the readers of Spenser? Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The letter came back to me from the dead letter office. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z This verse must have since become a dead letter, an obsolete statute which God does not enforce in the present age. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z This provision too became a dead letter, owing to the orders given by the Holy See to the clergy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z On the 26th, the military commission, declaring that decrees and orders remained a dead letter, charged the municipalities, the Central Committee, and the chefs-de-légions with the reorganisation of the National Guard. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z This strike has proven beyond doubt that the protective features in railroad organizations, and other organizations as well, is a dead letter as long as the federal courts are controlled by capital. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z The disruption of Belgium from Holland was the first great blow at its provisions, and one after another of these subsequently became a dead letter. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z But if this verse is a dead letter, how much more of the Bible is affected in the same manner? The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z All that which the dead letters here relate, I once have written with my own heart's blood: The siege of Troy, and then �neas' flight The wrath of Gods, and splendid Roma's birth. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z While limited by these rules there will be no progress, and their noble institutions will become dead letters. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z This article, like many of the subordinate stipulations of the treaty, remained a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z This prohibition was enforced, but the second clause was a dead letter for twenty years. The Negro in the South His Economic Progress in Relation to his Moral and Religious Development 2011-02-27T03:00:29.010Z For so strong is the passionateness of the original feeling, the inner cry and appeal in the words, that it forces its way through the reproduction, rings out loudly even from the dead letters. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Things must be altered, and her promise to Sid's father must not become a dead letter. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z One must be a man to be able to blind oneself so with the dead letter! The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z Its provisions, as was soon found, could be easily evaded, and the bill, which had caused so much excitement, and had nearly precipitated the fall of a ministry, remained a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z While this conference was under way, a Huron chief showed that he was the equal of even De Nonville in the strategies of war where the code of honour was a dead letter. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z Happily however the Act proved a dead letter. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z I can feel and understand a thousand things, books, ideas, emotions, which are so many dead letters to him. Vestigia Vol. I. 2011-02-04T03:00:23.340Z He said: “It appears difficult to make out a stronger case of infringement of the foreign enlistment act, which, if not enforced on this occasion, is little better than a dead letter.” Cruise and Captures of the Alabama 2011-01-30T03:00:18.733Z “Your charter is a dead letter,” he declared. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z For a long time the edict remained a dead letter. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z But public opinion was revolted by such rigour, and the statue remained a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z And Mr Graham himself said he thought the plan would be a dead letter if the Democrats used reconciliation to pass health care. American politics: Signature event 2010-03-23T12:30:00Z The Bristol Post Office has its returned letter branch, with which almost all the towns in the West of England, and South Wales are affiliated for "dead letter" work. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone This part of the Act consequently remained a dead letter. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study She could sooner have sounded the depths of the Atlantic than the grand deep of that young girl's heart and soul; they would always be dead letters to her—mysteries she could not solve. Love Works Wonders A Novel To his relentless oppressors all was a dead letter. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution For many years, however, these laws were little more than a dead letter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" We couldn’t enforce the law if we tried; and we haven’t enough moral courage to strike it off the books for the dead letter it is. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse Annum, but previous to his receiving any net produce, all charges, dead letters, under Deputies Salaries, and other allowances are by the Words of his Commission, to be first deducted. The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study Formerly, there were provisions requiring religious services and instruction on each plantation, according to its size; but I believe these are either repealed, or become a dead letter. To Cuba and Back But this soon became a dead letter, and the Netherlands were really severed from the Empire, save for the nominal feudal tie in the case of some provinces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" That precept of the Krausist philosophy very much in vogue at that time, "Regard humanity not as a means, but as an end," was for him a dead letter. Maximina For in those days the New Law concerning the forgiveness of enemies was a dead letter. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The golden rule is a dead letter to them. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America The injunctions of the councils of Constance and Basel as to the written vote of the cardinals became before very long a dead letter, but there still remains a relic of them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Spain has liberal laws relative to the religious instruction of the slaves; but they are no better than a dead letter. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time This document has long been a dead letter, and the society abides by its older traditions. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. They are dead letters—dead timber which a wise woodman would soon hew away. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis As a result, some of the best and most necessary laws are dead letters on our statute books. The Children of the Poor An act making provision for a college, appears to have remained a dead letter; other acts equally futile, passed at ensuing sessions, frequently recur. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia Martin’s Act is a dead letter in Africa. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa The old rule by communication has become a dead letter since the formation of the Central Council, and I am informed that said council has not held a legal meeting since its formation. The Crime of the Century or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin If it be destined to remain, it is to be hoped that it will remain a dead letter. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis As it is impossible to set the cases entirely clear, it is necessary to add 25 per cent to large fonts, and 33 per cent to small, to allow for dead letter. Paper and Printing Recipes A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades The new sumptuary laws, which were not allowed to become a dead letter, had their influence in restraining middle-class extravagance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Dress, that all-important subject in civilised countries, and about which the minds of hundreds are wholly engrossed, is here a dead letter, or nearly so. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa Out of old mouldy documents and dead letters Motley recreated the Netherlands of the sixteenth century. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 Modern strength appears in the powerful liberty with which you go on disengaging the reality from the forms, and the spirit from the dead letter. Priests, Women, and Families Up to 1868 the laws of the game forbade remuneration for players, but so great had become the rivalry that professionalism worked its way in, and the rule became a dead letter. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 Besides, anxious to establish the supreme power of the Pope in a land where his authority was a dead letter, they crossed the Pyrenees and broke the absolute power of the arrogant prelates. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain This occurred so often that the statute was allowed by the party in power to become a dead letter before its repeal. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment I'm goin' to stay with you until you learn the drill dead letter perfect. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign And would we be so barbarous as to seek to impede the progress of improvement, and to render agriculture a dead letter? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The dead letter has decided in this business, as it does in many more, where our feelings would decide in a different manner, but dare not. The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts So far, however, as the statement was susceptible of that construction it was not generally acted upon and remained practically a dead letter. Concerning Justice Experience answers, that the dominant tendency of life is to turn ascertained truth into a dead letter—to make us all the phlegmatic servants of routine. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Therefore we are not so much concerned this evening with the dead letter of edicts and of statutes as with the living thoughts of men. The History of Freedom For nearly seventy years the Royal Society had observations made at Somerset House, but they were a dead letter—mere long columns of figures—till these tables gave them significance. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The rest is “mere oblivion,” a dead letter: for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The laws of infanticide must be a dead letter in the District of Columbia. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The literal text proved for him a dead letter, and this practical commentator died by a metaphor. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 But in vain would these rights be declared, ascertained, and protected by the dead letter of the laws, if the constitution had provided no other method to secure their actual enjoyment. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First The edict of the preceding September, assuring to peaceable Protestants freedom from molestation in their homes, was as much a dead letter as any of its predecessors. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 One might easily infer from the passage before us a confirmation of the error, that the law under the Old Covenant was only an outward dead letter. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Matey's spoken blandishments were now a dead letter to Finn. Finn The Wolfhound An order was at one time issued by the government prohibiting this, but its arbitrary nature was so very outrageous, even for a Spanish government, that it was permitted to become a dead letter. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The thing cannot be seen once in six months; it would not have been noticed, much less introduced by an ordinary artist, and to the public it is a dead letter, or an offence. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) This world's history teaches us that nothing good has ever come from such vain assumptions, unless it be empty phrases and dead letters. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Probably no other city of the same size has more stores standing upon the so-called White List, and laws which prior to 1893 were dead letters are enforced to-day. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV But that plank had not been seriously intended, and by 1916 the march of events had made it a dead letter. Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements The carrying of concealed weapons is prohibited by law in the United States and some other countries, but in Mexico a statute is not permitted to be simply a dead letter. Aztec Land Save for her exertions, the divine command, ‘Search the Scriptures,’ would have remained to at least nine-tenths of the nation a dead letter. Leading Articles on Various Subjects With these facts before us, we consider that the measure of last session, prohibiting any further issue of notes beyond those already taken out by the banks, is almost a dead letter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 It will not be known that the Declaration of Independence was once a dead letter. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The logic of events, so plain to all besides, was a dead letter to the imperial mind, blinded as it was by the habit of dark manœuvres. Pius IX. And His Time “Then there will be no harm in agreeing to forfeit him if you fail,” rejoined Wallace; “for if you certainly do feed him, then your agreement to forfeit him will be a dead letter.” Stuyvesant A Franconia Story I was soon master of the part; and, at the end of the next day's rehearsal, I was found to be "dead letter perfect." My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. She then showed them how readily, without any marked revolution, the word "white" had been stricken out, while the word tax-payer had virtually become a dead letter. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III All good intentions, all right convictions, all wise counsels of religious teachers, are side-tracked and become as a dead letter if they stand in the way to successful money making. A California Girl In fact, the law is a dead letter, and the employer who finds himself suddenly arraigned for violation is as indignant as if no responsibility rested upon him. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad For the want of them in us, half the laws that touched our daily lives had became dead letters or vehicles of blackmail and oppression. The Battle with the Slum But, thank God, Bar�re's decree was a mere dead letter. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The prospect was, that it would either remain a dead letter, or be swept away under the ridicule and abuse of the press, and the open attacks of its enemies. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III We all hope that in such laws there comes a great deal of dead letter, but the dead letter itself stinks and is corrupt. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II I was unlucky enough to secure one of the many insignificant clubs who never survived the first round, and so my "sov." was a dead letter. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches It was so systematically and universally violated, that it soon became a dead letter. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I These laws are generally a dead letter, partly because of their own weakness, and partly because of the indifference of the people. History of Education Of the word "white" in this article your memorialists need not speak, as it is made a dead letter by the limitations of the fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Perhaps it could not be executed, for laws repugnant to the general feelings of mankind are only a dead letter. 2dly. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. XI Modern strength appears in the powerful liberty with which you go on disengaging the reality from the forms, and the spirit on the dead letter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Here we are ever brought back to the undulating ground of living science, instead of having to follow the rectilineal way traced out by the dead letter. Principles Of Political Economy Consequently they have become as dead letters upon the statute books. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It was regarded almost as a dead letter from the first, and, though it remained on the Statute-book for twenty years, its repeal was a foregone conclusion. Lord John Russell They are eagerly fond of fox-hunting, coursing, and shooting, but fishing is a dead letter. The Toilers of the Field The human statutes on this subject should be repealed, as they surely will be in due time, or be regarded as they now are in European States—as dead letters. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Divine revelation, said M�nzer, was not received from the church, nor from preaching, least of all from the dead letter of the Bible; it was received solely and directly from the Spirit of God. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" If there were no such court to settle constitutional questions, the Constitution itself would soon become a dead letter. The Faith of Our Fathers They are often very little supported by law, and sometimes are even contrary to law, and then they remain a dead letter from the first. The Cult of Incompetence It will be the means of diminishing the number of dead letters and newspapers, which is increasing every day to an incredible amount. Cheap Postage Thus the Interim before long became a dead letter throughout the greater part of Germany. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Each state was ordered to adopt a constitutional form of government, but, as no provision was made for enforcing this clause, it remained a dead letter. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) The Christian powers of Europe immediately remonstrated, and it was hoped that the law against apostates from Mohammedanism would be permitted to become a dead letter. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse The same may be true of a dead letter, as opposed to a dead book. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II There would also be a very considerable increase of income from papers and pamphlets, and a great saving in the article of dead letters and newspapers. Cheap Postage To them the holy Scriptures were but a dead letter," said Luther, "and they all began to cry, 'The Spirit! the Spirit!' The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Even the Canningite members of the government supported it against Russell's attack, but on the very opposite ground—that it had become a dead letter. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) But all these decrees, although properly countersigned and placed in the archives, remained practically a dead letter. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church It would appear from the endorsement on this letter that some brothers were sent at this early date; although this instruction probably remained a dead letter. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Local interests and prejudices were consulted instead of the national welfare; treaty stipulations were disregarded, and the confederation became, in many respects, a dead letter. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The people are taught to regard the decalogue as a dead letter. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Civilization is a dead letter to them, and they still vegetate like their forefathers, with no wish to improve, and with no ambition to attain a more comfortable existence. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century And that the law might not be a dead letter for lack of accusers, the state officials were commanded to prosecute it just as they would any other crime. The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church So far as it was concerned the canons of Rathbreasail were a dead letter from the beginning. St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh The fair little oracle hesitated; remembering Dolly's passionate despair and grief over that "dead letter," she could scarcely trust herself to speak. Vagabondia 1884 Prohibition, a dead letter to all who could afford to patronize the underground mart, had but added to the spice of life, and it was patent that Miss Dwight had a cellar. Black Oxen Their equality before the law, granted by statute, has become practically a dead letter. The Jewish State One of my brothers was a mail clerk for the government for fifty years, and then he went to Washington and worked in the dead letter office. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Either Christianity is a dead letter, a mockery, or we have been fighting this war in a wrong way. "The Pomp of Yesterday" Her "dead letter" lay with them,—that last, last appeal, which had never reached his heart, and never would. Vagabondia 1884 There is, first of all, science, undertaking to present us with a morality conforming to the Gospel teachings, which it claims have become a dead letter. Modern Saints and Seers "He who thinks that he can be made truly righteous by means of a Book is ascribing to the dead letter what belongs to the Spirit." Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries We shall not succeed always: words, verses, nay, whole hymns in the Rig-veda, will and must remain to us a dead letter. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion On the contrary, it was declared to be a dead letter in many places. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada The people of the free States, however, who believe that slaveholding is wrong, cannot and will not aid in the reclamation, and the stipulation becomes therefore a dead letter. A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 We can't talk business until we know what basis it is to be on, and the will is a sort of dead letter without further instructions. Floyd Grandon's Honor For the mystics the dead letter was nothing, and the inspiration of their own hearts was the sole source of all knowledge. Mystics and Saints of Islam Practise out of Tune with Principles.—From the very beginning the official declarations of 1868 were and remained a dead letter. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) The right is long since a dead letter. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals We transform it into a carnal, empty, and dead letter, as religion, where it is truly, spiritualizeth earthly and carnal things into a holy use. &c. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The fine for selling these cards must have been a dead letter, for we find in the newspapers proof of the prevalence of card-playing. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The oppression laws which the Federalists had induced Congress to pass were virtually dead letters from the moment of their passing. A History of the United States On reporting the ordinance to the Continental Congress, the article prohibiting slavery was forthwith stricken out, and the report, as amended, was accepted; but the ordinance itself was a dead letter. Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 The charge on dead letters returned to the writers is 3 cents on each letter in addition to the postage. Canadian Postal Guide The law is neutralised, and made nearly a dead letter, by the state of feeling that prevails on the subject, and by the other obstacles to which we have referred. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Numberless examples might be given to prove that this law was no dead letter. Customs and Fashions in Old New England In order to make the new law a dead letter the colonists resolved that while it was in force they would avoid using stamps by substituting arbitration for any kind of legal procedure. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III With the exception of one or two zealots the English Catholics treated the Bull as a dead letter. History of the English People, Volume IV The Government, indeed, issued its proclamation, forbidding these hostile preparations; but this was a dead letter. Diary in America, Series Two The Sherman Anti-Trust Law was a dead letter until Mr. Roosevelt instructed the Attorney-General to prosecute its violators, both great and small. Fifty Years of Public Service In short, insurgency ceased to be a valid plea; if it existed in fact, officially it had become a dead letter. The Philippine Islands The required standard of character does not appear, but this regulation was no dead letter, as the town records testify; and picked men only were allowed a foothold on this new possession. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 But the real cause of this apparent submission to the Act of Uniformity lay in the fact that it remained, and necessarily remained, a dead letter. History of the English People, Volume IV But this provision was for many years a dead letter. Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 "Are laws of this kind passed merely to excite odium and remain a dead letter?" Union and Democracy But as no penalty was prescribed for the breach of the law, it of course became a dead letter. An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition And if, as happens in our complicated political machinery, laws are passed which have not the sanction of widespread public approval, they remain "dead letters." Human Traits and their Social Significance Less than three months after the Act became law, lawyers reached the conclusion that it was a dead letter. The Task of Social Hygiene They do not wish them repealed by constitutional amendments, abrogated by judicial construction, nullified by unfriendly legislation, State or National, or left a dead letter by non-action on the part of law-makers or executive officers. The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes It became a law on the 26th of March, 1788, and instead of becoming a dead letter, was published and enforced in post-haste. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens They even maintained that Rule 20 was a dead letter and that one of the Professors, when consulted at the time one of the fraternities was founded, did not disapprove, or quote this law. The University of Michigan A devout reader may get the meaning of the parable in power upon his heart, while the logical interpreter expends much profitless labour in the dissection of a dead letter. The Parables of Our Lord The dead letter department of the Post Office in Washington received in one year seven million pieces of undelivered mail. Pushing to the Front These are the men who say we cannot enforce prohibition, and undertake to make the law a dead letter. The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier The treaty, as must have been foreseen by the commissioners themselves, remained a dead letter so far as the Tories were concerned. The Wars Between England and America When I took office the anti-trust law was practically a dead letter and the interstate commerce law in as poor a condition. The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Yet in not a few districts the law is a dead letter or the money grudgingly spent! New Ideals in Rural Schools The Act was a dead letter; and considering the principles of the time, surely the Act was not wonderful. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Our discourse was generally composed of much lighter elements, especially when Mr Mawley and I did not come in contact—argument being then, naturally, as a dead letter. She and I, Volume 1 The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill remains a dead letter. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 They remained as dead letter, and will, I think, so remain perpetually. A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 So the moral law become a dead letter. The Faith of Islam An alliance between two countries is a dead letter so soon as their interests cease to be identical. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo The phrase remained, and had a profound influence on subsequent philosophies, but in his own hands it was little more than a dead letter. A Short History of Greek Philosophy After a few years the portions of the penal code which restricted the Catholic worship became a dead letter, and Catholic chapels were everywhere rising on the Protestant estates. Historical and Political Essays Atmospheric envelopes slowly en route to the dead letter office of dream pastels demand his whole attention. White Ashes The bull of deprivation, which had been drawn up and signed, became a dead letter, and every one was anxious to disavow his share in its promotion. Henry VIII. This restriction was a dead letter from the very beginning. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Those were days when, as now, disbursing officers were forbidden to gamble, but when, not as now, the law was a dead letter. Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. Unless the law of Nations is a dead letter, the late war between the two acknowledged belligerents severed their original contracts and broke all the ties that bound them together. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 The lakes of Canada have not engaged that attention at home which they ought to have had; and there is much interesting information about them which is a dead letter in England. Canada and the Canadians Volume I The Jockey Club may be quoted, but Crockford will be a dead letter. The Young Duke The Acts of Navigation and of Trade were not the dead letters that some superficial writers and readers have seen fit to term them. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country In 1859 a rule was made forbidding the participation in any matches of paid players, but it was so easily evaded that it was a dead letter. Base-Ball How to Become a Player The veto power, so potent an instrumentality in the hands of the American President, is to all intents a dead letter in the mythical British Constitution. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective And, in fact, sorry I am to say it, as far as eating-houses are in question, the game laws are nearly a dead letter. Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago The Sunday law is a dead letter in the Bowery. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Although in 1800 various Acts on the Statute Book required Nonconformists to subscribe to the religion of the Church of England before taking part in municipal affairs, these Acts had long been a dead letter. The Rise of the Democracy It has been a dead letter ever since it was placed on the statute books. Applied Eugenics "There are such laws, yes—but most of them are either a dead letter, or else so easily evaded that no employer thinks of conforming to them." The Fruit of the Tree Justice, as well as liberty, is a dead letter in the land of Lenine, and conscription is rigidly enforced by the Russian Socialist Government. The Red Conspiracy It lingers in the minds of most people only as a dead letter. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life But, though ratified by the States General promptly, the convention remained almost a dead letter, and left the Netherlands virtually autonomous. The Age of the Reformation He added that he had not said science would destroy religion but that at its present rate of decline the Church of England would become a dead letter in a hundred and fifty years. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Soon the Fugitive Slave Law, had become a dead letter. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict The Scripture being a dead letter cannot explain or interpret itself. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals If King William's cause triumphs, the act will remain a dead letter. Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick When a Diet, under skilful manipulation or by unscrupulous trickery, was induced by the executive to pass an unpopular measure, like the Edict of Worms, the law became a dead letter. The Age of the Reformation A dead letter, a little ink and paper, of three or four shillings price. Among Famous Books The good folk at Methwold may have been adepts at petty tyranny, but such an absurd regulation must soon have become a dead letter. The Social History of Smoking The provision would be a dead letter unless improper legislation were enacted, but if there were improper legislation, then it would be salutary. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie That patriotic hymn of theirs, which up to the present has been a dead letter for those peoples who have not yet been incorporated in the Prussianised Empire, will now become a living thing. The Schemes of the Kaiser As Brabant and Antwerp repudiated a law that would have ruined their trade, it remained, in fact, a dead letter. The Age of the Reformation There are many instances in which a law has become a dead letter; where this is generally recognized no appreciable harm is done, since universal custom operates as a virtual repeal. What Prohibition Has Done to America "They have placed twenty-five kings over me!" he shouted, in his fury, referring to the twenty-five leading men who had been appointed to see that the Great Charter did not become a dead letter. The Leading Facts of English History The bill was adopted, but has remained a dead letter in most districts, because no mine inspectors were appointed to watch over its being carried into effect. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The German song is no longer a dead letter. The Schemes of the Kaiser The Swiss were beginning to see the evils of the system, and prohibited the taking of pensions in 1503, though this law remained largely a dead letter. The Age of the Reformation This expectation of high dividends, I need hardly say, has not been realised, and the Act in this respect has been a dead letter. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland Furthermore, the Navigation Laws had not been rigidly enforced for a long time, and the New England colonists generally treated them as a dead letter. The Leading Facts of English History As to the extemporised compulsory attendance at school, it remained wholly a dead letter, since the Government failed to provide good schools. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 Other description than that of the pictures we do not possess, for as yet the language is a dead letter. The Dance (by An Antiquary) Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. Her law must become little by little a dead letter, her Caliphate an obsolete survival, and her creed a mere opinion. The Future of Islam The statute-book is a dead letter when it conflicts with public opinion. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York On their tongue the mention of God hath become an empty name; in their midst His holy Word a dead letter. The Kitáb-i-Íqán They talk of its being a dead letter. Greenwich Village At the present time this wretched remnant of the dark ages is practically a dead letter. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer He has found that there are limits to what the American people will stand even from him, and it seems likely to remain a dead letter. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar But the penal statutes were still in force, and they were not everywhere permitted to remain a dead letter. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution However, the Sempronian law had been made, and the people wanted, of course, to have it carried out, while the nobles wanted it to be a dead letter. Young Folks' History of Rome Art is a dead letter to her, and so is literature, unless an unceasing and untiring devotion to three-volume novels be counted under that head. Town Life in Australia The renewal was necessitated by various acts of hostility which had rendered it, in effect, a dead letter. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Newgate horrors still continued; the gallows-crop never failed; and the few Acts of Parliament designed to ameliorate the condition of the prisoners in the jails had almost become dead letters. Elizabeth Fry His choral piece was insignificant and remained a dead letter. Musical Memories From the day of his appointment crime is said to have disappeared, and the penal laws remained a dead letter. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Even the modern successors of these men, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi, in his earlier years, have become dead letters musically, although only as late as 1845, Donizetti was at the very zenith of his fame. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Lords and lags were equally welcomed without characters or references from their former employers, the Masters' and Servants' Act having become a dead letter. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned The rest is "mere oblivion," a dead letter: for all that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution She was your mother and she is dead, so her past shall be a dead letter to us. The Northern Light Yet this Act was allowed to become so much a dead letter that in 1851 the Lancet published the analysis of fifty-six preparations sold as "cocoa," of which only eight were free from adulteration. The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Occasionally he would get a nocturnal notice to quit the parish in a given time, under a penalty which seldom proved a dead letter in case of non-compliance. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The Covenant was a dead letter as far as power to do mischief was concerned. A Short History of Scotland If, as you are accustomed to assert, the Proclamation is a dead letter, it certainly need not give you very serious discomfort. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 At this time the laws against witchcraft had become practically a dead letter, but it was not till 1735 that they were repealed. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century The bill was a dead letter, and its enemies concluded to let it remain on the statute-book of the colony. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens The act, called the Test Act, itself, is, with regard to them, grown to be hardly anything more than a dead letter. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) She may tell us that the penal statutes, so far as slaves are concerned, are a dead letter; that they are inoperative; that they have no force or effect whatever. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery But how when the streams grew choked? how when the ministry had become a dead letter? The Secret Chamber at Chad Even in England a resolution of the House of Commons may be enough to turn a law into a dead letter. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Douglas in the discussion, with his eye for the concrete, pointed out that the ordinance of 1787, and the Missouri Compromise as well, were practically dead letters. Children of the Market Place Bitter in some places, they were neutralized or the law became a dead letter, in other parts of the realm. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji It must be added that these pious intentions remained a "dead letter" until adequate machinery for giving them effect was provided by the Land Purchase Acts, commonly called the Ashbourne Acts, of 1885 and 1889. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union The law is straight enough, that whenever the government grants a lot, the receiver must do his part to open a road, but the law has become a dead letter. The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 It should, however, be recorded that this edict proved to be but a dead letter. The Empire of Russia He gave life to the dead letter of an old ceremony by a new meaning. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 The laws are a dead letter because there is no one to enforce them. Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador Supplement to an Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. Before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation in January, 1911 He also controls the free delivery of mail matter in cities, and the dead letter office. Elements of Civil Government And this rule was not a dead letter. All Aboard; or, Life on the Lake A Sequel to "The Boat Club" This was the end of South African Confederation, and the permissive Act of 1877, passed after the Transvaal had been annexed, remained a dead letter on the Statute Book. The Life of Froude “The Whole Duty of Man” has long been consigned to the trunk-maker, “Chesterfield’s Letters” are now dead letters, and the “Young Man” lights his cigar with his “Best Companion.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 They only become a dead letter if one nation utterly disregards them and does so without incurring a penalty in some form. Rebuilding Britain A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War Sacred books, written systems of law or ethics would all prove a dead letter—the Bible itself, as well as the Veda, would be a dead letter but for the co-operation of this Divine Spirit. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The law of 1807 prohibiting the importation of slaves had, from the date of its enactment, been virtually a dead letter. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making But this enactment could only be a dead letter. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 And my lament Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives, alas! away.' Aspects of Literature To be sure it did forbid rebates, but the machinery for enforcing the prohibition was inefficient, and during another twenty years the prohibition remained substantially a dead letter. The Promise of American Life But the law was a dead letter, for only with rum and wine could work be urged upon the Marquesans, and I failed to reprove them even in my mind for their love of drink. White Shadows in the South Seas To the greater number the laws of duty and honour are a dead letter. The Roman Question The other enactments were observed; but this, which required the consent of the Government to make war on the natives, was allowed to remain a dead letter. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 That Ordinance, however, as we saw, had merely been in terrorem at a particular moment, and had remained a dead letter. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Were this method to prevail, our present literal language would become a dead letter. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The militia law is no longer a dead letter. The Nameless Castle The amendments of the House of Lords, however, made the part of the Act dealing with this question a dead letter, and the Land Commissioners have given up the attempt to put it in force. Ireland and the Home Rule Movement How I despise all these time-honored phrases, which, dead letters as they are, act as links to strengthen the chain that binds women in a state of inferiority. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 A law had indeed been passed allowing such girls as might wish to abandon their awful calling to do so; but it was so administered as practically to remain a dead letter. The Authoritative Life of General William Booth That these acts, and the proclamations for enforcing them, were not a dead letter is shewn by the criminal records. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 Still, "science was faith once"; and besides, to St. George, charts and compasses of all known and unknown systems of seamanship were suddenly become but the dead letter of the law. Romance Island They have no laws, or at all events their old laws have become a dead letter. A Trip to Venus The motto of Noblesse oblige was no dead letter in the sixteenth century. Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean Thus the factory inspectors are unable to take action, and the law becomes a dead letter; in 1906 only one prosecution for this offense could be brought into court. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Nor did anything foreshadow that my genial Dutch friend, to whom the English language was a dead letter, was destined in a not too distant Future to become a shining light of England's Royal Academy. In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences She added that the overcrowding in the district was terrible, the regulations of the Public Health Authorities designed to check it being 'a dead letter.' Regeneration Our charter would be a dead letter if we let you enter a single college on your way to the river to-day.' Miss Bretherton It was recently the fashion to complain that the amendment of the Constitution has become so difficult as to be now practically a dead letter. A Librarian's Open Shelf In part the law becomes a dead letter, in part it is evaded by skill and fraud, in part it is obeyed to give rise to worse evils. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The constitutions were framed to remain a dead letter. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I In many states, the bag limit laws on birds are an absolute dead letter. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation How true that the Methodist discipline is a dead letter! The Revelation Explained It was not for nothing that she had been born almost beyond the confines of the civilized earth, of parents for whom law and order and other men's rights were as the dead letter. The Wild Olive Hence the law as to the registration of priests soon became a dead letter. Is Ulster Right? Its design is to render the election laws inoperative and a dead letter during the next fiscal year. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes Patriotism and republicanism became synonymous, and the constitution against which Burke had prophesied was henceforth a dead letter. Burke It is only when religion is driven out from the society of the living, that it must conceal its manifold life under the dead letter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English These regulations were not a dead letter, nor do they seem to have been more irksome than many other college restraints. A Collection of College Words and Customs We suspect that he rather eschewed books, parchment deeds, and clerkly contrivances, as forms of evil; and held the dead letter of little consequence. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. I felt that if these gentlemen came within the purview of the bill it was as to them a dead letter, and that none of them would ever take refuge under its provisions. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson No, nor yet in the churches where men bow themselves; it is an extinct message, a dead letter, a thought that has done its day. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Sir, the Constitution is not yet an entire dead letter. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Colonial statutes had indeed been passed; but they were a dead letter; since, however ill they were treated, they were not considered as having a right to redress. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II Meantime he begged his way northward from Portland, for the southern provinces were a dead letter to him. A Perilous Secret The general amnesty which was promised has remained completely a dead letter. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Hatti-Sheriff, a name given to an edict of the Sultan which is irrevocable, though many a one of them has proved a dead letter. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge How can we, how dare we, make a perfect dead letter of this part of the Constitution, which we have sworn to support? The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style The moral code, no matter how accurate may be its precepts, tends to become a dead letter, unless it is constantly revivified by the spirit of religion. The Church and Modern Life There was also an injunction of long standing against any meddling with the case without permission, but that had been a dead letter for some time. The Soul of a Child These and other stringent measures dictated in 1777 and 1784 by their very severity defeated their own purpose, and the laws, to a great extent, remained a dead letter. The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation Still from his teachings, even from the dead letter of them, breaks forth a light which reveals horizons hitherto unknown. Delsarte System of Oratory Hamilton, the expounder of the Constitution, said: "Laws are a dead letter without courts to enforce and apply them." Government and Administration of the United States Sabbath laws of all sorts forbidding work and play and amusements are dead letters on the statute books of most states, in spite of many attempts to galvanize them into life. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment To this day it has remained, except in one or two states, a dead letter. The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration This, however, remained a dead letter, and things went on as before. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey So the penalty announced with so much emphasis turns out to be a dead letter, as the children knew it would from the beginning. Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind A sedulous scholar might often approach more nearly to the dead letter of Virgil, and give an exact, distinct, sober-minded idea of the meaning and scope of particular passages. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author The best working model in the matter is the system of Compulsory Insurance; which was a total failure and dead letter in France but has been, in the German sense, a great success in Germany. The Crimes of England In the small towns it is not unusual for health ordinances to be strictly enforced in the English-speaking localities, and allowed to remain a dead letter in the immigrant districts. The Trade Union Woman In spite of the terrors of the law, now becoming a dead letter, he opened a Unitarian chapel in Essex Street, London, in 1774. Unitarianism They were supposed to keep bowing to the seniors, juniors and sophomores, but that custom had long been a dead letter at Yale. Frank Merriwell at Yale That was once the law, though it has always been a dead letter in Groveland. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays Unless this be afforded, the Constitution becomes a dead letter in this particular, and, even worse, it becomes a means of deception. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 4: James Buchanan There was some interference on the part of the authorities, but the new theater was erected and performances publicly given there, while the prohibitory law became a dead letter. The Contrast Were it not for this transmission of the quickening power of personality, the New Testament would be to a great extent a dead letter. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Nor are the laws respecting this matter a dead letter. My Bondage and My Freedom The reforms became more or less a dead letter. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 And this penalty was not simply a dead letter! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 The measure became a law, but it was a dead letter, and was quietly repealed twenty years afterwards at Mr. Gladstone's request. The Grand Old Man Women have compelled their legislators in every state in this Union to so modify their statutes for women that the old common law is now almost a dead letter. The Woman's Bible But, alas! said Luther, we read such examples as dead letters; human reason is not able to search this passage out. Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther So the stern condition of Pepsy's freedom had become something of a dead letter, except in her own fearful fancy, and particularly when that discordant voice of the bridge spoke ominously of her peril. Pee-Wee Harris These provisions have been dead letters as far as political prisoners are concerned. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future "There would be hopeless confusion—in fact, if everybody did that, the law might easily become a dead letter—absolutely a dead letter." The Loudwater Mystery Burton he had certainly never looked into, nor any of those other English classics which were the delight of Marmaduke Lovel; so the subject of books was a dead letter between them. The Lovels of Arden He soon found that the fealty he had sworn was not, as he had hoped, to be a mere dead letter, as with the former kings. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II But the law had become a dead letter in the majority of cases. The Life of Cicero Volume One The very name of literature is a dead letter, and the upper classes are no better instructed than the lower. Holidays in Eastern France For is not the voice of every loving spirit a fresh inspiration to the dead letter? Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 All that is a dead letter if you hold any communion with this man. The Lovels of Arden The custom-house officials had no force at their disposal which would have enabled them to check these operations, and the law enforcing a trade with England was virtually a dead letter. True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence The Sunday law, which, seems to be so rigidly enforced in other parts of the city, is a dead letter in the Bowery. The Secrets of the Great City European public opinion is to China a dead letter; she refuses to plead before that tribunal. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 But the country was already in a ferment, and had our countryman struck a bargain then and there, the last-named extras would have proved a dead letter. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne The newest and most cunning fancies are a dead letter to the ignorant. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Thus the law became a dead letter, and each new-coming settler built on outlying and remote land, since the Indians were no longer so deeply to be dreaded. Sabbath in Puritan New England But in such cases, as well as in many others, the law often remains a dead letter.' The Secrets of the Great City Soon you will be—forgive me—a dead letter. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches The report of the Stephen Commission remained a dead letter. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 General maxims, drawn from experience, are, to the young at least, but as remarks—moral sentences—mere dead letter, and take no hold of the mind. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 As far as our South is concerned, the good work done by Cervantes is pretty nearly a dead letter, so effectually has Scott's pernicious work undermined it. Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. So far as the Sikh share in it was concerned, the tripartite treaty threatened to become a dead letter. The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Although he had saved all he could from his pay, it was impossible to pay several hundreds of pounds of debt; and the steamboat stock still continued a dead letter. Life in the Backwoods Charters and statutes were dead letters till that could be had. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded |
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