Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

* 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89. 9 % of the popular vote.

* Ninth century BC, particularly in the reign of Joash-a position especially popular among nineteenth-century scholars ( making Joel one of the earliest writing prophets )

In 1931 Hu Hanmin, Chiang's old supporter, publicly voiced a popular concern that Chiang's position as both premier and president flew in the face of the democratic ideals of the Nationalist government.

This new position allowed him to study contemporary French music, which was particularly popular at the court: the works of Lully and Campra.

In their book Trust Us, We're Experts ( 2001 ), they write that industries have launched multi-million-dollar campaigns to position certain theories as " junk science " in the popular mind, often failing to employ the scientific method themselves.

The more popular Godfrey did not hesitate like Raymond, and accepted a position as secular leader.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, there was speculation the position of General Secretary would fall to Chernenko, however he was unable to rally enough popular support for his candidacy within the Party, and the posting fell to former KGB chief Yuri Andropov.

This, together with the popular opposition, made Doe ’ s position precarious.

Marcel Achard was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country's theatrical and literary circles for five decades.

Others, such as T. S. Eliot, rejected mass popular culture from a conservative position.

Newton, with his own associations with Dissenters ( his mother was one ) meant he was in a position to conciliate with, rather than confront, his parishioners, and he quickly achieved a reputation as a popular preacher.

The synapsid / sauropsid division supplemented, but was never as popular during the 20th century as a Linneaean approach splitting the reptiles into four subclasses based on the number and position of temporal fenestrae, openings in the sides of the skull behind the eyes.

In 1980, in order to legitimize their position, the armed forces proposed a change in the constitution, to be subjected to a popular vote by a referendum.

From 1901 to 1903, Taft served as the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines, a position in which he was very popular with both Americans and Filipinos.

He is also known for his wide popular appeal, his opposition to corruption in government, his support for the American position in the run-up to the American War of Independence, his advocacy of British greatness, expansionism and colonialism, and his antagonism toward Britain's chief enemies and rivals for colonial power, Spain and France.

Walter Lippman, in 1940, regarded him as basically an opportunist, who " changes his views from hour to hour ... always more concerned with taking the popular position than he is in dealing with the real issues ".

Proving popular in Poland, he decided to adopt the position of de facto cultural attaché to the country.

In an early attempt at defining some basic questions operative in examining folk tales, < noinclude > in 1925 characterised the folk legend as " a popular narrative with an objectively untrue imaginary content " a dismissive position that was subsequently largely abandoned.

The Copenhagen interpretation was traditionally the most popular among physicists, next to a purely instrumentalist position that denies any need for explanation ( a view expressed in David Mermin's famous quote " shut up and calculate ", often misattributed to Richard Feynman.

In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to the position that association football holds as a globally popular sport.

The party hoped that the elevation of a popular woman as its new leader would improve its position, but Kirner never succeeded in gaining control of the crisis into which the state had plunged.

Although the interpretation of the peace treaties was used to challenge the legitimacy of the ROC on Taiwan before the 1990s, the introduction of popular elections in Taiwan has compromised this position.

That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

No other popular idol is accorded even that much grace.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Taking account of the fact that such a move on our part would be unpopular in world opinion, he argued that the responsibility of the United States is `` to do, confidently and firmly, not what is popular, but what is right ''.

But as the popular response suggests, the potentiality of the Peace Corps is very great.

A salad with greens and tomato is a popular and wonderfully healthful addition to a meal, but add an avocado and you have something really special.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

For those who need or want and can afford another car, buying one and driving it on the grand tour, then shipping it home, is one popular plan for a do-it-yourself pilgrimage.

Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.

The data is now interpreted in conjunction with a price chart, usually of a popular stock average.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Continuity exits, but like the neo-swing music developed from Lester Young, it is a continuity sustained by popular demand.

A political scientist writes of the growth of `` alienated voters '', who `` believe that voting is useless because politicians or those who influence politicians are corrupt, selfish and beyond popular control.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

No reference is made to the possibility of recording other than popular music in this manner, and it would not seem to lend itself well to serious music.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.