If any State in the Union will declare that it prefers separation with the first alternative, to a continuance in union without it, I have no hesitation in saying, ' let us separate '.

In reference to the grave charges made against the late Sir Hector MacDonald, we, the appointed and undersigned Commissioners, individually and collectively declare on oath that, after the most careful, minute, and exhaustive inquiry and investigation of the whole circumstances and facts connected with the sudden and unexpected death of the late Sir Hector MacDonald, unanimously and unmistakably find absolutely no reason or crime whatsoever which would create feelings such as would determine suicide, in preference to conviction of any crime affecting the moral and irreproachable character of so brave, so fearless, so glorious and unparalleled a hero: and we firmly believe the cause which gave rise to the inhuman and cruel suggestions of crime were prompted through vulgar feelings of spite and jealousy in his rising to such a high rank of distinction in the British Army: and, while we have taken the most reliable and trustworthy evidence from every accessible and conceivable source, have without hesitation come to the conclusion that there is not visible the slightest particle of truth in foundation of any crime, and we find the late Sir Hector MacDonald has been cruelly assassinated by vile and slandering tongues.

In spite of his earlier hesitation to go through with the exchange, he had no doubts about his success, stating that Aleppo was " the key to the lands " and " this city is the eye of Syria and the citadel is its pupil.

Instead, Tsunetomo felt true samurai should act without hesitation to fulfill their duties, without regard for success or failure.

After some hesitation on the part of the city council, Enschede was able to host Roze Zaterdag in the summer of 2004 which was a huge success.

There is no room for prudence in revolutions whose fate and eventual success is always decided by boldness and raw courage … this is why Petőfi condemned his compatriots for the sin of opportunism and hesitation when faced with the great problems of their age … Petőfi's works must be regarded as the law of the Hungarian soul … and of the … love of the country ".

Time executives had long vacillated over launching such a magazine, but the success of The March of Times experiments in pictorial journalism overcame the hesitation of the corporation's board of directors.

Amundsen had problems and hesitation raising funds for the departure and upon hearing in 1909 that first Frederick Cook and then Robert Peary claimed the Pole, he decided to reroute to Antarctica.

Suleiman, separated from the struggle only by the linen hangings of the tent, peered through the chamber of his tent and " directed fierce and threatening glances upon the mutes, and by menacing gestures sternly rebuked their hesitation.

Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs.

Van Vliet later admitted personal hesitation to take the scholarship based upon the bitterness of his parents ' disencouragement.

In 410 Synesius, whose Christianity had until then been by no means very pronounced, was popularly chosen to be bishop of Ptolemais, and, after long hesitation on personal and doctrinal grounds, he ultimately accepted the office thus thrust upon him, being consecrated by Theophilus at Alexandria.

Yoh's grandfather Yohmei made the difficult decision to kill both children upon birth, though a moment of hesitation resulted in Hao's escape.

An enemy hand grenade fell in the trenches his men were fighting from and without hesitation he threw himself upon the grenade.

The court reasoned based upon a presumption that where there is a violation of a right, the plaintiff can recover whatever he could recover under any civil action, unless Congress has expressly curtailed that right of recovery, or there exist some " special factor counseling hesitation ".

Stockham, upon noticing that the gas mask of a wounded comrade was shot away, without hesitation, removed his own gas mask and insisted upon giving it to the wounded man, well knowing that the effects of the gas would be fatal to himself.

Sazonov stated that Russia had usually been moderate in its foreign policy, but “ Germany looked upon our concessions as so many proofs of our weakness and far from having prevented our neighbours from using aggressive methods, we had encouraged them .” The Russian War Minister Marshal Vladimir Sukhomlinov and the Navy Minister Admiral Ivan Grigorovich stated that Russia was not ready for a war against either Austria or Germany, but that “… hesitation was no longer appropriate as far as the Imperial government was concerned.

Called upon to explain the part he played in 1894, Mercier admitted, this time without hesitation, the communication of the secret dossier, took credit for it himself, and declared that if necessary he was ready to do it again.

The discovery of vast reserves of energon on the planet, plus his hesitation to actually tamper with the timeline, left Megatron unwilling to actually follow through with the plan laid out by the original Megatron.

His theory leaves the natural man, without hesitation, to be developed by the natural processes of animal evolution.

He leaves insisting that Helen come with him ; after a moment's hesitation she runs after him.

Then, without any further hesitation, he turns and leaves the ship.

Madea tells Vianne thst she needs to go after her man and after a few minutes of hesitation she decides to go chase him down before he leaves, but as soon as she opens the door Bobby is standing right there.

`` No -- nothing at all '', he said after a moment's hesitation.

John did so with hesitation, afraid that he might be deposed at the council.

Mussolini had no hesitation in attributing the attack to the German dictator: the news reached him at Cesena, where he was examining the plans for a psychiatric hospital.

But any hesitation to buy it evaporated when both Motorola and Intel dropped the prices on their own designs from $ 179 to $ 69 at the same show in order to compete.

Third, North Korea's hesitation to implement a policy aimed at integration into the international community makes one expect that the status of the party vis-à-vis that of the government will be strengthened.

As Marius writes in his biography of More: " To stand before a man at an inquisition, knowing that he will rejoice when we die, knowing that he will commit us to the stake and its horrors without a moment's hesitation or remorse if we do not satisfy him, is not an experience much less cruel because our inquisitor does not whip us or rack us or shout at us.

As writer Mark Twain said, " It took a brave man before the Civil War to confess he had read the Age of Reason ... I read it first when I was a cub pilot, read it with fear and hesitation, but marveling at its fearlessness and wonderful power.

The latter took up a strong position at Kesselsdorf between Meissen and Dresden, but the veteran Leopold attacked him directly and without hesitation ( 14 Dec .).

Revox went one step further: after much hesitation about whether to accept cassettes as a medium capable for meeting their strict standards from reel-to-reel recorders at all, they produced their B710MK I ( Dolby B ) and MK II ( Dolby B & C ) machines.

He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922, and after some hesitation over his employment, he stayed for six years, working as a car mechanic before returning home to start his own auto repair business in 1928 at the age of 22.

After some hesitation Henry V allowed Richard to inherit the title and ( at his majority ) the lands of the Duchy of York.

After some hesitation, with followers begging him not to go, Sonam Gyatso's party set out and was met at Ahrik Karpatang in Mongolia where a specially prepared camp had been set up to receive them.

Without hesitation, alone and unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation, at close range in the face of intense combined machine gun and cannon fire.

In foreign policy, he aligned Norway with the Western powers at the end of the 1940s after some initial hesitation within the governing party, and Norway became a founding member of NATO.

On August 26, 1848, after painful hesitation, Frederick William chose what seemed the lesser of two evils, and Prussia signed at Malmö a convention which yielded practically all the Danish demands.

If I had to, I'd pull the trigger without hesitation "; however, in 1999, Kay ( who at that time was not working for WWASP ) said that the Tranquility Bay staff were " untrained ", without " credentials of any kind ", and that Tranquility Bay " could be leading these kids to long-term problems that we don't have a clue about because we're not going about it in the proper way ".

His first private patient was Averell Harriman, after taking a call at the clinic that asked for the best ‘ Osteopath in London ’: Ward replied without hesitation, “ that would be Stephen Ward ”.

After a long hesitation and a defeat of his party in October 2002 Senate elections, Klaus did not run for re-election as party chairman at the December ODS congress.

The amir, after some hesitation, acknowledges his obligations under the Durand Line Agreement, but at the end of the year the Afghan outpost still remains at Mittai.

Second, this hesitation may also be experienced by a character ; thus the reader's role is so to speak entrusted to a character, and at the same time the hesitation is represented, it becomes one of the themes of the work -- in the case of naive reading, the actual reader identifies himself with the character.