indorse
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“I cannot foresee all that it might entail if the Court should indorse this argument,” Jackson wrote.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 26, 2017
It urged that Methodism, indorse "the principles of birth control legislation now pending in Congress."
From Time Magazine Archive
We indorse him as our choice for nomination and election.
From Time Magazine Archive
European police are delighted with it, automobile clubs indorse it, insurance officials grin broadly at the thought of reduced risks from night accidents.
From Time Magazine Archive
That Stephen W. Dorsey then told Miner that he would advance no more and would indorse no more.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
Il Re Vittorio Emanuele seized his pen and made several scatches upon a parchment which had been indorsed earlier in the week by Il Senato.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time, the chamber indorsed a proposed school bond issue, and for the first time the real-estate owners' association did not oppose it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The amendment provides that the candidate must be indorsed by one or more members from her home state, must be approved by an Executive Committee of officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New York, jewelers indorsed last year's Baumes laws providing life imprisonment for criminals four times convicted of a felony, said the laws have reduced their losses from theft 50%.
From Time Magazine Archive
The check for the amount reached Mr. Egan on the 12th inst., and he at once indorsed it back to Rev. Dr. O'Reilly, the Treasurer, as his personal contribution to the League funds.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various
There is no doubting Jennifer's popularity, but no indorsing it either.
From Time Magazine Archive
To-day, the Secretary of War sent in a paper indorsing Judge Meredith’s opinion in regard to foreigners who have accepted service in our country, viz., that they are liable to conscription.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
His father had just died bankrupt, every cent of money and stick of property having gone to pay the liabilities incurred by indorsing bad notes.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
Mrs. Southworth, in her home at Cleveland, also had charge of the systematic enrollment of persons indorsing woman suffrage, which has been very effective in answering the objection that women do not want to vote.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Reaching across the table, Tug cordially shook hands with his friend, who had been doing nothing up to that time save enjoying Tug's humor, and indorsing whatever he said.
From The Mystery of the Locks by Edgar Watson Howe
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