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    White Australia policy (category History of immigration to Australia)
    Poll Taxes, with Federation in 1901 came discrimination based on the Dictation Test, which effectively gave power to immigration officials to racially...
    91 KB (9,934 words) - 02:24, 9 June 2024
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    reflection of the league's belief in the sovereignty of its component nations; the league sought a solution by consent, not by dictation. In case of a dispute...
    159 KB (18,874 words) - 15:30, 17 June 2024
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    territory" to Lithuania. On 8 May 1924, after negotiations between the Lithuanian Government and the Conference of Ambassadors and action by the League of Nations...
    170 KB (19,830 words) - 02:49, 18 June 2024
  • paragraph in a newspaper, writing from dictation, and working out sums and fractions. Before 1944 around 80 per cent of the school population attended elementary...
    62 KB (8,361 words) - 20:20, 23 May 2024
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    employed them. He was not a man of superior strength of character, or he would never have submitted to the dictation of Nikon. But, on the other hand,...
    25 KB (2,727 words) - 04:58, 29 May 2024
  • In words of foreign origin, ⟨di, ti, ni⟩ are pronounced [dɪ, tɪ, nɪ]; that is, as if they were written ⟨dy, ty, ny⟩, e.g. in diktát, dictation. Historically...
    28 KB (2,806 words) - 17:19, 27 May 2024
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    envisioned for a certain role that we shall play under the dictation of the Embassy – new statement of the People's Power". Rustavi 2. Archived from the original...
    129 KB (11,771 words) - 21:18, 12 June 2024
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    InScript typing in one language can type in other scripts using dictation even without knowledge of that script. An InScript keyboard is inbuilt in most modern...
    141 KB (15,862 words) - 16:56, 8 June 2024
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    last ten years. In this context, Hector Poullet is a pioneer of Creole-mediated dictation. Creole is also a very colourful language and very philosophical...
    118 KB (11,124 words) - 18:26, 13 June 2024
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    present opportunity to go to war, we will have to submit to American dictation. Therefore, I recognize that it is inevitable that we must decide to start...
    45 KB (6,058 words) - 10:03, 10 April 2024
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    "wicked, unfair" and "dictation, a slave treaty" but one which they would repudiate at some stage if it "did not fall to pieces of its own absurdity." As...
    75 KB (9,060 words) - 23:05, 25 May 2024
  • Language federation (category History of immigration to the United States)
    made up such a large portion of socialist groups as to make top-down dictation of a uniform policy very difficult. The SPA had a vexed relation with language...
    11 KB (1,546 words) - 22:02, 20 September 2016
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    Shōwa era (category Empire of Japan)
    present opportunity to go to war, we will have to submit to American dictation. Therefore, I recognize that it is inevitable that we must decide to start...
    59 KB (7,405 words) - 04:29, 3 June 2024
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    Racism in Australia (category Culture of Australia)
    revision of the Migration Act introduced a simpler system for entry and abolished the "dictation test" which had permitted the exclusion of migrants on...
    93 KB (16,247 words) - 19:44, 26 May 2024
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    towered up against him in the dictation of a brutal mob and wicked sect. No one can read the Burke of Liberty and the Burke of Authority without feeling that...
    130 KB (17,010 words) - 15:54, 14 June 2024
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    a secretary taking dictation...[Thus] every verse in the Torah is equally holy, as they all originate from God, and are all part of God's Torah, which...
    73 KB (10,346 words) - 20:48, 11 June 2024
  • accepted from the Middle East. In 1958, under the Migration Act 1958, the dictation test was removed and a new universal visa scheme or entry permits introduced...
    36 KB (4,088 words) - 16:17, 9 June 2024
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    Australia as a nation populated mainly by white Europeans. It included a dictation test of 50 words in a European language, which became the chief way unwanted...
    179 KB (21,152 words) - 21:48, 4 June 2024
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    should be) were apparently also "ready to adopt changes at the mere dictation of fancy" to improve designs. From the "authentications" they received 1815–26...
    542 KB (59,731 words) - 09:10, 18 June 2024
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    allowed for capitalist practices to resume under the Communist Party dictation in order to develop the necessary conditions for socialism to become a...
    143 KB (16,927 words) - 16:12, 12 June 2024
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