{"id":13146,"date":"2017-12-01T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13146"},"modified":"2017-12-01T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:04:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/01\/word-of-the-day-278\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trammel<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. (trammels<\/strong>) literary<\/em> Restrictions or impediments to freedom of action. \u2018we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism<\/em>\u2019<\/li>\n
  2. A three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes on the further side, forming a pocket in which the fish is trapped.<\/li>\n
  3. An instrument consisting of a board with two grooves intersecting at right angles, in which the two ends of a beam compass can slide to draw an ellipse.<\/li>\n
  4. US<\/strong> A hook in a fireplace for a kettle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “On Waiving the Jerusalem Embassy Act (or Not)<\/a>,<\/em>”\u00a0Scott R. Anderson and Yishai Schwartz, Lawfare<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    The Clinton administration, however, raised strong objections while this legislation was\u00a0 debated. From a policy perspective, this debate was happening shortly after the celebrated\u00a0Taba Agreement<\/a>\u00a0wherein Israel and the Palestinians had just agreed on interim governance arrangements for the West Bank and Gaza. Hope was high that this momentum would lead to a lasting peace, and the Clinton administration\u00a0argued<\/a>that a \u201cpremature focus on Jerusalem\u201d could \u201cundermine negotiations and complicate the chances for peace[.]\u201d The Clinton administration also maintained that section 3(b) of the act was unconstitutional, asserting in a\u00a0memorandum<\/a>\u00a0by the Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel that \u201cthe Constitution vests the President with the exclusive authority to conduct the Nation\u2019s diplomatic relations with other States[,]\u201d including recognition matters, and that \u201cCongress cannot trammel the President\u2019s constitutional authority to conduct the Nation\u2019s foreign affairs and to recognize foreign governments by directing the relocation of an embassy\u201d through limitations on funds. On both grounds, the Clinton administration threatened to veto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Trammel: (trammels) literary Restrictions or impediments to freedom of action. \u2018we will forge our own future, free from the trammels of materialism\u2019 A three-layered dragnet, designed so that a fish entering through one of the large-meshed outer sections will push part of the finer-meshed central section through the large meshes \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13148,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions\/13148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}