If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.

They will help provide the skilled manpower necessary to carry out the development projects planned by the host governments, acting at a working level and serving at great personal sacrifice.

The White Sox had taken a 5-4 lead in the top of the sixth on a pair of pop fly hits -- a triple by Roy Sievers and single by Camilo Carreon -- a walk and a sacrifice fly.

Yet adequate compensation -- and particularly merely adequate compensation is no substitute for those intangibles which cause a man to sacrifice part of his earning potential by taking up college teaching in the first place.

Because he copiously shed his own tears, and yielded himself up as a living sacrifice to the impersonalized conscience of New England, he was not disturbed by the havoc he worked in other people's consciences.

This note describes the evolution of the notion of alms ( and by extension of altruism ) from the notion of sacrifice.

The importance lies in sacrifice for the sake of the greater good ; Islam considers those practicing i ' thar as abiding by the highest degree of nobility.

The Roman Catholic celebration is associated with the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed from the temporal punishment due to venial sins and from attachment to mortal sins cannot immediately attain the beatific vision in heaven, and that they may be helped to do so by prayer and by the sacrifice of the Mass.

Finally, the prophet Calchas announced that the wrath of the goddess could only be propitiated by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.

Aegina obtained money for her defences by the unwilling sacrifice of her cherished relic, the head of St. George, which had been carried there from Livadia by the Catalans.

* OBP — On base percentage: times reached base ( H + BB + HBP ) divided by at bats plus walks plus hit by pitch plus sacrifice flies ( AB + BB + HBP + SF ).

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).

Sacrifice bunts ( sacrifice hits since 1954 ), which would lower a batter's on-base percentage, are not included in the calculation for on-base percentage, as bunting is an offensive strategy – often dictated by the manager – the use of which does not necessarily reflect on the batter's ability and should not be used to penalize him.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

The sacrifice is made present without Christ dying or being crucified again ; it is a re-presentation to God, of the " once and for all " sacrifice of Calvary by the now risen Christ, who continues to offer himself and what he has done on the cross as an oblation to the Father.

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices which have influenced the 20th century.

Simone de Beauvoir: reflected that her dying mother had made every sacrifice but her feelings did not take her out of herself

Abel is invoked in the litany for the dying in Roman Catholic Church, and his sacrifice is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass along with those of Abraham and Melchizedek.

The concept that the omnipotent Creator would set aside all power in order to conquer the hearts of men by love and that he would have been helplessly placed in a manger was as marvelous and as touching to the believers as the sacrifice of dying on the cross in Calavry.

The sacred king, the human embodiment of the dying and reviving vegetation god, was supposed to have originally been an individual chosen to rule for a time, but whose fate was to suffer as a sacrifice, to be offered back to the earth so that a new king could rule for a time in his stead.

It is in keeping with the somewhat malicious saying about Foxe, reported by William Tyndale, that he would sacrifice his father to save his king, which is not so damning as Wolsey's dying words.

Anthropomancy ( from Greek anthropos ( ανθροπος, man ), and manteia ( μαντεια, divination ) is a method of divination by the entrails of dead or dying men or women, often virgin female children, through sacrifice.

On fields of Europe I closed the eyes of soldiers in American uniforms who were dying ... and oh, they were so superb and splendid: never a complain ; never a regret ; willing to go if only two things might be: One, that mother might know that they died bravely, and the other, that somebody would pick up their sacrifice and build on earth a permanent temple of peace ....

Dr. Kusama's dying question to Daisaku (" Can happiness be obtained without sacrifice?

"... but it is strange, the Muslim at the time of performing the morning prayer at half past four in the morning he still states ‘ Inna salaati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamaati lillahi rabbil ‘ alamin ’ ( Verily, my prayer, my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allāh, the Lord of the Worlds Al An ’ aam ( 6 ), ayāh 162 ).

He once said that if Jesus was just a man dying on a cross, then Christianity would be immoral, offering a picture of a vindictive God along with the image of a pagan human attempt to appease God through human sacrifice — a form of self-justification.

After being killed by an unexpected blaster bolt from Han Solo, he desperately tried to force his spirit into the infant Anakin Solo, but was balked by the dying Jedi Empatojayos Brand, who made the ultimate sacrifice, willingly sending his eternal soul into the " madness beyond death " that is the dark side to ensure Palpatine would go as well, and could never return.

Nonetheless, he is defeated along with Luuke, and Mara's sacrifice silences her curse and completes her reconciliation with the Jedi, whom she later joins.

During a test of Jacen's faith, the Yuuzhan Vong orders him to sacrifice captured Jedi Ganner Rhysode.

* MLK refers to a type of ( probably human ) sacrifice probably named Molk, so that Abimelech signifies my father is a sacrifice-a reference to Abimelech being pious.

Macaria volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the Macarian spring in her honor.

Macaria volunteered for the sacrifice and a spring was named the Macarian spring in her honor.

The recitation of Vaisampayana to Janamejaya is then recited again by a professional storyteller named Ugrasrava Sauti, many years later, to an assemblage of sages performing the 12 year long sacrifice for King Saunaka Kulapati in the Naimisha forest.

The Latin term came to be used of the Christian eucharist in particular, sometimes named a " bloodless sacrifice " to distinguish it from blood sacrifices.

Judges chapter 11 contains a story in which a Judge named Jephthah makes a vow to God to sacrifice the first thing that comes out of the door of his house in exchange for God's help with a military battle against the Ammonites.

A prophet named Calchas told him that in order to appease Artemis, Agamemnon would have to sacrifice the most precious thing that had come to his possession in the year he killed the sacred deer.

Cabiria was a story about a slave named Maciste ( played by Bartolomeo Pagano ) who was involved in the rescue of a Roman princess from an evil Carthaginian king who plotted to sacrifice her to the cruel god Moloch.

The final version of Vyasa's work is today's Mahābhārata, structured as a narration by Ugrasrava Sauti who was a professional story teller, to an assembly of ( rishis ) who had just attended the 12 years sacrifice of Saunaka also named as kulapati in the forest of Naimisha.

The gods granted them 24 children but stipulated that the 25th child, named Kesuma, must be thrown into the volcano as human sacrifice.

The Provincial Reconstruction Team base was named Camp Kearney on 21 November 2004 to honor the sacrifice of Spc.

: The concept of the theriomorphic god and especially of the bull god, however, may all too easily efface the very important distinctions between a god named, described, represented, and worshipped in animal form, a real animal worshipped as a god, animal symbols and animal maskes used in the cult, and finally the consecrated animal destined for sacrifice.

The Ghodkhind pass was subsequently named Pavan Khind (" Holy Pass ") () by Shivaji, in honor of the sacrifice of Baji Prabhu and his troops.

That sacrifice was afterward also observed regularly and known as Gói's Sacrifice and the name of the month was thence named Gói.

As evidence of the antiquity of the concept of a juno of women, homologous to the genius of men, is the Arval sacrifice of two sheep to the Juno Deae Diae (" the juno of goddesses named Dea Dia "), in contrast to their sacrifice of two cows sacrificed to Juno ( singular ).

A sorcerer named Vermian and his demon slave Zomuk live in a castle and kidnap a voluptuous girl named Merya to sacrifice to the dark god Uhluhtc.

Brutus is believed by many scholars to be the penname of Yates, and named after either Lucius Junius Brutus who led the overthrow of the last Roman King Tarquinius Superbus or Marcus Junius Brutus, who was one of Julius Caesar's assassins Julius Caesar Brutus posed objections to the proposed Constitution, including the necessity of the people to sacrifice liberties to the government, the system of representation in the legislature, the powers of the legislature and judiciary.

Parker also contributed an RBI on a sacrifice fly and was named the game's MVP.

Touched by Mosuke's sacrifice, Amidamaru named the sword, which became a symbol of their friendship.

As horses were very important to the Spanish, especially the nobility, they named the bay in honor of their sacrifice.

In prehistoric times, a tribe of cavemen prepares to sacrifice a woman named Bel ( べる Beru ) to their deity, a dinosaur named O-D-O ( おーでぃーおー Ō Dī Ō ).