Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

The key distinguishing factor between direct and collateral appeals is that the former occurs in state courts, and the latter in federal courts.

Some had no briefing about the intermediate state in the former life.

Others say that he " raised the see of York from its former rustic state ".

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.

The perjury charge arose from Clinton's testimony about his relationship to Lewinsky during a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones.

In the former western state, however, the mass of Mount Cameroon reaches almost to the sea.

Relations between the Republic of Vanuatu and Cuba began shortly after the former gained its independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, and began establishing its own foreign policy as a newly independent state.

Cyprus former President Makarios III at a state visit in Munich with the German Chancellor in 1962

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

In 1990, it was discovered in the archive of the Stasi ( the state security service of the former German Democratic Republic ) that a member of CND's governing council, Vic Allen, had passed information to them about CND.

This is especially prevalent in the character of Jet Black ( the archetypal ‘ good man in a bad world ’), a former cop who rails against the corruption of the police force but is forced into a semi lawless state of bounty hunting.

* Nevada State Museum – former state mint featuring rock, mining and prehistoric exhibits, and a recreated Wild West village

New opportunities for Yeltsin's circle and other entrepreneurs to seize former state property were created, thus restructuring the old state-owned economy within a few months.

At the end of 2006, BT ( the UK's former state owned monopoly phone company ) started offering BT Vision, which combines the digital free-to-air standard Freeview through an aerial, and on-demand IPTV, delivered over a BT Broadband connection through the Vision set-top box ( BT have chosen to deploy Microsoft's Mediaroom platform for this.

Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state ( and former possession ) Schleswig-Holstein to the south.

Per Unckel, governor of Stockholm and former Minister of Education, has promoted the system, saying " Education is so important that you can ’ t just leave it to one producer, because we know from monopoly systems that they do not fulfill all wishes.

OTE, the former state monopoly, is the main player in fixed-line telephony.

A former monopoly world champion, Mr Prince is considered an expert in exposing opponents defences and stealthily raiding their areas.

LLU is generally opposed by the ILECs, which in most cases are either former investor-owned ( North America ) or state-owned monopoly enterprises forced to open themselves to competition.

The former state owned telephone monopoly ( TPSA ) has been mostly privatised, with France Telecom buying the largest share.

The company is the former public monopoly of telecommunications in Spain.

Following the war, the former corporate policy was discontinued: the North and South Greenland colonies were united and the RGTD's monopoly officially ended.

In most countries these companies either have long established dominance, or have purchased the major domestic producer or producers, often a former state monopoly.

Nevertheless, landownership was controlled by a small European monopoly, thwarting the evolution of a Creole landowning class from the former slaves.

Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1996 as the former state-owned monopoly Deutsche Bundespost was privatized.

To foster competition in both the long distance and local markets, the 1996 Act created a process by which the Regional Bell Operating Companies (“ RBOCs ”) would be free to offer long distance service ( which was not permitted under one of the terms of the 1982 Consent Decree settling the government ’ s antitrust case against the former Bell System monopoly ) once they made a showing that their local markets had been opened up to competition.

A major focus of these was the elimination of the former so called natural monopoly of generation, transmission, and distribution.

Subscriber numbers starting with 0 are assigned to the former monopoly OTE.

The films produced at the DEFA studios after World War II included approximately 950 feature films, 820 animated films, more than 5, 800 documentaries and newsreels, 4000 German synchronisations of foreign language movies, which were acquired by the privatized version of the former East German film distribution monopoly, Progress Film-Verleih GmbH.

Apoteket AB is the national pharmaceuticals retailing former monopoly in Sweden.

* Samvel Aleksanyan, a parliament deputy with close ties to former President Robert Kocharian and current President Serzh Sarkisian, whose Salex Group has a monopoly on imports of sugar, flour, cooking oil, butter and other basic foodstuffs.

On 22 October 2010, the British media reported that Julian Messent, a former executive in the reinsurance firm PWS ( owned by Lord Pearson ), had pleaded guilty in Southwark Crown Court to paying £ 1. 2 million in bribes to three Costa Rican officials, in exchange for a contract with the state insurance monopoly, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros ( INS ).

Traditionally, agreements had, subject to certain exceptions, to be notified to the European Commission, and the Commission had a monopoly over the application of Article 101 TFEU ( former Article 81 ( 3 ) EG ).

* British Gas plc ( 1987 – 1997 ), the former monopoly gas supplier in the United Kingdom

Fixed line market is peculiar in Spain, since only two local loop providers can operate at each particular region ( or demarcación as regulated by the CMT ): a cable carrier ( such as Ono, R and many others ) and the former State monopoly ( Telefónica ).

In the end, as Telefónica set up a reselling program for their fixed lines and DSL internet access, the former monopoly is still much in control of the fixed line market, including profitable broadband access.

It was an advert for Retevision, a newly created company that meant the end of monopoly for former state agency Telefonica, and liberalisation of the telecom market in Spain.

In 1942 the company was nationalized totally by the Third Reich as the monopoly parent company of the German state's film industry, under which were absorbed all other production and distribution companies still active at that time like Bavaria Film and Wien-Film ( former Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG ) with their studio facilities.