dispensation

• I suppose she got a dispensation, and was able to get into clean clothes again, some day I have heard tell that the Spaniards have a colour that is called by her name--a sort of dirty yellow. —  Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
• It is one of those spiritual blessings of which He has the dispensation, and which He has promised to all who believe in Him. —  God's Plan with Men
• Yet this dispensation is not all pain, for there is a hope and not (in my mind) a bare or rash hope that his soul rests with God in Jesus Christ.... I walked upon the hills to muse upon this very mournful event, which cuts me to the heart. —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
• How naively the negative formulation gained acceptance, and at the same time how intrinsic to the new dispensation was the aspiration for free initiative, appears in the confident assertion of its most genial spokesman, that when these positive checks are taken away, "The simple and obvious system of Natural Liberty establishes itself of its own accord The common man, in these modern communities, shows a brittle temper when any overt move is made against this heritage of civil liberty. —  An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• Under the new dispensation, as has already been remarked, coalitions should reasonably be expected to grow to a larger size and achieve a greater efficiency for the same purpose The large gains of the large corporate coalitions are commonly ascribed by their promoters, and by sympathetic theoreticians of the ancient line, to economies of production made practicable by a larger scale of production; an explanation which is disingenuous only so far as it needs be. —  An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation

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