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Adams argued that since Spain had proved incapable of policing her territories, the United States was obliged to act in self-defense.
After heated debate in Congress, Adams successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest.
Adams argued strongly that the phonics and the whole language advocates are both right, and that phonics is an effective way to teach students the alphabetic code, building their skills in decoding unknown words.
" Charles Francis Adams, the American minister to Britain during the war, argued later that " Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or Life among the Lowly, published in 1852, exercised, largely from fortuitous circumstances, a more immediate, considerable and dramatic world-influence than any other book ever printed.
If cruelty was commanded, he would not be loving ; Adams argued that, in this instance, God's commands would not have to be obeyed and also that his theory of ethical wrongness would break down.
To some, this settled the question, but Mrs. Lewis argued that Adams ’ conclusions failed to account for the lack of blood at the scene and the medicinal odor.
In 1825 he talked for several days in opposition to a series of measures proposed by President John Quincy Adams that he argued would advantage the emerging industrial powers of New England at the expense of the Southern states.
The disparities between Jefferson's philosophy and practice have been noted by numerous historians: Staaloff proposed that it was due to his being a proto-Romantic ; John Quincy Adams claimed that it was a manifestation of pure hypocrisy, or ' pliability of principle ;' and Bailyn asserts it simply represented a contradiction with Jefferson, that he was “ simultaneously a radical utopian idealist and a hardheaded, adroit, at times cunning politician .” However, Jenkinson argued that Jefferson's personal failings ought not to influence present day thinkers to disregard Jeffersonian ideals.
Adams argued that Great Britain had recognized a state of belligerency “ before they Confederacy had ever showed their capacity to maintain any kind of warfare whatever, except within one of their own harbors under every possible advantage it considered them a maritime power before they had ever exhibited a single privateer upon the ocean .” The major United States concern at this point was that the recognition of belligerency was the first step towards diplomatic recognition.
It could be argued they had little choice in moving the match away from Adams Park, with Wycombe Wanderers playing an FA Cup tie the same day.
In the The Nixon Interviews, Nixon argued that he was unable to fire the White House staffers involved in the Watergate scandal, much as President Eisenhower was unable to directly fire Adams.
Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) opposed the Declaration, James Molyneaux of the Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ) argued that it was not a " sell-out " of unionists, and Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin requested dialogue with the governments and clarification of the Declaration.
John Quincy Adams argued for the Africans.
John Quincy Adams successfully argued that the slaves had been kidnapped and they were permitted to return to Africa.
The actor now felt very possessive of the part and frequently argued with directors over his inclusion of ad-libbed lines, but he was extremely pleased when the levity of the show increased even further after the departure of Read and the hiring of Douglas Adams as script editor for season seventeen in 1979.
The abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams, who was West Belfast's MP until his resignation in 2011, led to an attempted legal challenge by local councillor Frank McCoubrey who argued that Shankill residents were being denied their right to representation.
Consequently he argued in favor of the conservative candidate in the 2008 campaign, John McCain, and turned his disappointment on Barack Obama's victory into a denial of the " Noam Chomsky-John Pilger-Phillip Adams " view of the USA.
In 1591 Giordano Bruno argued that because no one could imagine that the Jews and the Ethiopians had the same ancestry that God must have either created separate Adams or that Africans were the descendants of pre-Adamite races.
Jackson's attack on the national blueprint put forward by Adams and Clay won support from Old Republicans and market liberals, the latter of which increasingly argued that Congressional involvement in internal improvements was an open invitation to special interests and political logrolling.
Kneeland laid out evidence which he maintained supported polygenist creationism ; and argued that the Bible is compatible with multiple Adams.
Some have argued that their inductions — particularly those of Tinker and Evers — were based more on the fame generated by Adams ' poem than by their playing ability, which was largely unremarkable.
In the Circular Letter, Samuel Adams argued that the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament.
Instead, Adams argued in favor of the previous arrangement, where the colonies were taxed only by their own provincial assemblies in which they were already represented.
Adams has argued for the legitimacy of homosexual, as well as heterosexual relationships, in Christian ethical theory.

Adams and virtually
* A collection, virtually complete, of Adams's papers regarding the discovery of Neptune was presented by Mrs Adams to the library of St John's College, see: Sampson ( 1904 ), and also:
In early 1985, Adams ( kayfabe ) fired Hart and began feuding with virtually every WCCW wrestler, face or heel.

Adams and all
`` Having all the guns makes you a big man, don't it, Adams??
In all fairness it must be admitted that Adams made no pretense at being an impartial historian.
For Adams had made up his mind before all the facts were available.
According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.
Aside from the fact that Adams was suing the very man who got him off of death row and out of prison all together, was the fact that Morris himself made absolutely no money on the movie.
President Monroe and all his cabinet, except Adams, believed Jackson had exceeded his instructions.
Adams said slavery contradicted the principles of republicanism, while Calhoun said that slavery was essential to American democracy, for it made all white men equal.
Adams repeatedly spoke out against the " Slave Power ", that is the organized political power of the slave owners who dominated all the southern states and their representation in Congress.
Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ): Adams commented, " Dueling pianos, cooing sirens, Valhalla brass, thwacking bass drums, gospel triads, and a Niagara of cascading flat keys all learned to cohabit as I wrote the piece.
Adams wrote, " in almost all cultures other than the European classical one, the real meaning of the music is in between the notes.
Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.
That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.
" Adams wrote of Cicero that " as all the ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher united in the same character, his authority should have great weight.
He repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which removed nearly all of Adams ' " midnight judges " from office.
In 1833, when Congress rejected Michigan's request for a convention, Adams summed up his opinion on the dispute: " Never in the course of my life have I known a controversy of which all the right was so clearly on one side and all the power so overwhelmingly on the other.
" However, in his haste, Adams ' Secretary of State neglected to have all the commissions delivered.
Article XIV of the Massachusetts Declaration of the Rights written by John Adams and enacted in 1780 as part of the Massachusetts Constitution added the requirement that all searches must be “ reasonable ” and served as the basis for the language of the Fourth Amendment:
However, authors such as Ed Moloney, Peter Taylor, Mark Urban and historian Richard English have all named Adams as part of the IRA leadership since the 1970s.
Indeed, Adams ' position as " Prime Minister " is a gross misnomer, as all of the Federation members were still colonies of Britain.
Jackson accused the Adams campaign, and Henry Clay even more so, of causing her death, saying, " I can and do forgive all my enemies.
Mount Hood, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams are all visible from Clark County, and cold winter winds through the Columbia River Gorge often bring freezing rain and a coating of glaze ice or clear ice known locally as a " silver thaw ," especially in southeastern areas of the county closest to the gorge.
On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.
* 1781-Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and Thomas Jefferson named to assist Adams in peace negotiations ; the Congress of the Confederation insists on independence ; all else is negotiable

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