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Adams and depended
In later years John Adams wrote of the struggles that Hewes experienced as he set about serving in the Continental Congress: " For many days the majority depended on Mr. Hewes of North Carolina.

Adams and largely
To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.
But largely through the skillful work of John Quincy Adams, a treaty was signed with Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the United States in return for the assumption of $ 5, 000, 000 in claims and the relinquishment of any claims to Texas.
The National Research Council's findings largely matched those of Adams.
It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt ( from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Irish myth of the Salmon of Knowledge ).
" 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.
The book was largely considered to be a rehash of Adams ' other books, most notably The Dilbert Principle.
Today, it is largely unknown outside of West and North Africa, except for its use as a flavoring in some beers ( including Samuel Adams Summer Ale ), gins, and Norwegian akvavit.
It lies largely in Adams County, with the northern part mostly in Highland County, except for a small northeast part in Pike County.
Despite his stated desire to retire from public service, Washington would later accept a commission from President John Adams, although Adams was largely forced into providing the commission by members of the Federalist Party, as the Senior Officer of a Provisional Army formed to defend the nation against a possible invasion by French forces during the Quasi-War.
Young has little time for his children and his wife's new frozen yogurt business, which gradually builds a gap between them, largely due to the demands of his bigoted, arrogant boss ( Mason Adams ) at the law firm where he works ; this leads to Franklin developing a bond with Young's Goth daughter, helping her stand up to her cheating boyfriend, and his young son, who has aspirations of playing pro basketball.
It was largely written by former President John Quincy Adams, who had been elected to the House of Representatives and been made chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, and reduced tariffs to remedy the conflict created by the tariff of 1828, but it was still deemed unsatisfactory by some in the South, especially in South Carolina.
Technology and Society, focusing on the impact of fast-changing technology on human societies, using the rapidly growing digital and on-line resources of the Library as well as the massive grey literature of science and technology to use and spread awareness of scientific materials, largely in the reading rooms of the Adams Building
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.
Today, like neighboring Jefferson Park and West Adams, it has become largely Latino, as many African-Americans have emigrated into suburban communities in the Antelope Valley, and San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.

Adams and on
Adams firmly contended that the historian must never underrate the impact of the geographical environment on history.
Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.
Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.
Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".
E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.
Six Lectures on The Ark of The Covenant ( London: Hamilton, Adams And Co, 1867 ).
Alexis Korner gave one of his last radio interviews to BBC Midlands on the Record Collectors Show with Mike Adams and the Late Chris Savory.
According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).
The game was inspired by Richard Adams ' fantasy novel Watership Down, and the players were given the opportunity to take on the role of rabbits.
DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.
Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip.
Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, " cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke ... it's on the reader.
" In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbert worked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh ( which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People ).
Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.
Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).
In April 2008, Scott Adams announced that United Media would be instituting an interactive feature on Dilbert. com, allowing fans to write speech bubbles and, in the near future, interact with Adams about the content of the strips.
Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932 – 33 NHL season.
It was also the last season as head coach for Adams, who stepped down after the season to concentrate on his duties as general manager.
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.
Adams was serving a life sentence that had been commuted from a death sentence on a legal technicality for the 1976 murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer.
Although Adams was finally found innocent after years of being processed by the legal system, the judge in the habeas corpus hearing officially stated that, " much could be said about those videotape interviews, but nothing that would have any bearing on the matter before this court.

Adams and dispatches
There, he served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia from 1813 to 1814 and was the bearer of dispatches from President John Adams to the Government of France in 1801.
He next sailed for Europe in John Adams on 31 January 1811 carrying dispatches for American officers in the Mediterranean.

Adams and foreign
Adams is best known as a diplomat who shaped America's foreign policy in line with his ardently nationalist commitment to America's republican values.
During his term as president, however, Adams achieved little of long-term consequence in foreign affairs.
However, thanks to the successes of Adams ' diplomacy during his previous eight years as secretary of state, most of the foreign policy issues he would have faced had been resolved by the time he became president.
John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy ( 1949 ), the standard history of Monroe's foreign policy.
John Adams wrote the preamble, which stated that because King George had rejected reconciliation and was hiring foreign mercenaries to use against the colonies, " it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed ".
The motion, which was seconded by John Adams, called on Congress to declare independence, form foreign alliances, and prepare a plan of colonial confederation.
Predictably, Adams and Jefferson clashed over issues such as states ' rights and foreign policy.
The Republicans felt that the Adams foreign policy was too favorable toward Britain ; feared that the new army called up for the Quasi-War would oppress the people ; opposed new taxes to pay for war ; and attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts as violations of states ' rights and the Constitution.
The University is associated with ten leaders and Prime Ministers of the Netherlands including the current Prime Minister Mark Rutte, eight foreign leaders among them the 6th President of the United States John Quincy Adams, two Secretary Generals of NATO and sixteen recipients of the Nobel Prize, including renowned twentieth century physicists Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi.
Other social leaders who came from Leicester include Charles Adams, military officer and foreign minister, born in town ; Emory Washburn, governor of Massachusetts from 1854 – 1855 ; and Samuel May, a pastor and active abolitionist in the 1860s, whose house was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
His carelessness in keeping account of his receipts and expenditures, and the differences between himself and Arthur Lee regarding the contracts with Beaumarchais, eventually led to his recall and replacement by John Adams as ambassador to France on November 21, 1777 and was expected to face charges based on Lee's complaints and on his having promised the foreign officers commissions outranking American officers.
The treaty was negotiated by John Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State under U. S. President James Monroe, and the Spanish foreign minister Luis de Onís.
The XYZ Affair originated with a report distributed by Adams where alleged French agents were identified by the letters X, Y, and Z who informed the delegation a bribe must be paid before the diplomats could meet with the foreign minister, and the resulting scandal increased popular support in the country for a war with France.
Adams ' is a selective state school which admits both boarding and day pupils, thanks to the school's recent academic success it has achieved a relatively high national profile and enjoys at least some recognition on the international stage ( with ever increasing numbers of foreign students, notably those from Hong Kong ).
Adams later managed in the minor leagues, farmed in Mount Moriah, Missouri, and worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent during World War II and the Korean War.
A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed United States Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg.
In May 1784, he nominated Thomas Jefferson as minister plenipotentiary to Europe to assist John Adams and Benjamin Franklin in negotiating treaties of commerce ; and in January 1785, was a member of a committee that reported on letters that had been received from United States ministers in Europe relative to a foreign loan.
Attempts to solve this situation before and throughout the presidency of John Adams were overshadowed by more pressing foreign and domestic issues that occupied Congress during the early years of the nation ’ s development.
Adams condemned ventures by foreign agents, such as those of Spain, who tried to incite an insurgency among Native Americans.
As with William Adams, Joosten was selected to be a confidant of the Shogun on foreign and military affairs, and he contributed to the development of relations between the Netherlands and Japan, thereby weakening the influence of Portugal and Spain.

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