But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.

In his answer thereto, he advised the Board that he had made no such statement in 1956, and asserted that his only claim to `` pioneering '' was in 1952.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

and a policeman asserted he had found a pair of brass knuckles in Art's pocket once when he had occasion to collar the Great First Baseman for some forgotten reason.

William A. Redding asserted that if the case had been heard in open court under rules of evidence, the testimony would have been completed in sixty days instead of five years.

After Johnston asserted his authority, Polk ultimately had to allow Dixon to proceed.

He also asserted the principle, that the trial was to be held, and the punishment inflicted, in the place where the crime had been committed.

Although most of the members of the community signed a document issued by Hasan Ali Shah summarizing the practices of the Ismailis, a group of dissenting Khojas surprisingly asserted that the community had always been Sunni.

Herodotus called them Androktones (" killers of men "), and he stated that in the Scythian language they were called Oiorpata, which he asserted had this meaning.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Chaplin's second wife, Lita Grey, later asserted that Chaplin had paid corrupt government officials to tamper with the blood test results.

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

In its " Agreement ", on August 22, 1973, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile asserted that Chilean democracy had broken down and called for " redirecting government activity ", to restore constitutional rule.

He asserted that Aper had killed Numerian and concealed it.

She further asserted that the police had insinuated if she did not cooperate with them they would take away her child.

Aristotle asserted that man had three natures: vegetable ( physical / metabolism ), animal ( emotional / appetite ) and rational ( mental / conceptual ).

One of them, the Irish monk Dungal, asserted that the tropical gap between our habitable region and the other habitable region to the south was smaller than Macrobius had believed.

Though he had asserted a desire to remain with the Astros, Beltrán signed a long-term contract with the New York Mets on January 9, 2005.

On October 4, 2009 the Reuters reported that Ayman Al Zawahiri had asserted that Libya had

Kasparov had once described Polgár as a " circus puppet " and asserted that women chess players should stick to having children.

Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 ( based on agreements made earlier in the century ), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.

Akayev, in turn, asserted that the communists had caused a political crisis by preventing the legislature from fulfilling its role.

Akayev, in turn, asserted that the communists had caused a political crisis by preventing the legislature from fulfilling its role.

I have in the past played with the double sense of Archimago's name — Archi-mage, the preeminent enchanter, and Arch-image, the preeminent illusion — and on this basis asserted that the name authorizes a cultural imagination corrupted by its own impossible aspiration toward wholeness / holiness — toward heroic autonomy and tyrannical power — and thus torn by deprivation, anger, and the perpetual fear of impotence.

In classical Greece, Anaxagoras asserted that a divine reason ( mind ) gave order to the seeds of the universe, and Plato extended the Greek belief of ideal forms to his metaphysical theory of forms ( ideai: ideas ).

" With that in mind, Rupert Gethin explains that the four noble truths are not asserted as propositional truths or creeds.

In § 5 of that book, Pearson asserted that "... science is in reality a classification and analysis of the contents of the mind ...." Also, "... the field of science is much more consciousness than an external world.

Such observation, he asserted, frees the mind of its conditioning by discarding psychological dependence on the past.

Some historians have asserted that creating a " Manchurian Candidate " subject through " mind control " techniques was a goal of MKUltra and related CIA projects.

George Berkeley, who pre-dated Kant, asserted that matter, independent of an observant mind, was metaphysically impossible.

His father's namesake, and John Churchill's biographer and descendant, Sir Winston Churchill, asserted – " conditions at Ashe might well have aroused in his mind two prevailing impressions: First a hatred of poverty ... and secondly, the need of hiding thoughts and feelings from those to whom their expression would be repugnant.

The Middle Ages saw a dispute over the ontological status of the universals ( platonic Ideas ): Realism asserted their existence independently of perception ; conceptualism asserted their existence within the mind only ; nominalism, denied either, only seeing universals as names of collections of individual objects ( following older speculations that they are words, " logos ").

But, either because his daring asserted itself, or because of a letter received from Mir Jafar, Clive was the first to change his mind and to communicate with Major Eyre Coote.

Like John Locke, he asserted that, prior to sensation, the human mind is a blank slate.

To summarize the main difference in a way so brief as to risk the accusation of inaccuracy, while the Mādhyamaka held that asserting the existence or non-existence of any ultimately real thing was inappropriate, some exponents of Yogācāra asserted that the mind ( or in the more sophisticated variations, primordial wisdom ) and only the mind is ultimately real.

Not all Yogācārins, however, asserted that mind was truly existent.

Because the prosecution sought the death penalty, Crittenden asserted that if the jury rendered an erroneous conviction, they would have no peace of mind knowing they had sentenced an innocent man to hang.

In his Complete Guide to Heraldry ( 1909 ), Arthur Charles Fox-Davies asserted that the terms are likely inventions of heraldic writers and not of heralds, arguing the " utter absurdity of the necessity for any classification at all ," and stating that the ordinaries and sub-ordinaries are, in his mind, " no more than first charges.

He further asserted that withdrawal symptoms are actually created by doubt and fear in the mind of the ex-smoker, and therefore that stopping smoking is not as traumatic as is commonly assumed, if that doubt and fear can be removed.

As a lecturer Andrews asserted that such inquiries, as paraphrased by a 1878 New York Times article, " demonstrated that the sympathy between the mind and body is an exact science ".

Ryle asserted that the workings of the mind are not distinct from the actions of the body.

Traditionally, the essential defining criterion of Celticity is seen as peoples and countries that do, or once did, use Celtic languages and it is asserted that an index of connectedness to the Celtic languages has to be borne in mind before branching out into other cultural domains.

In a very real sense, the universe is a participative one and open to participation by mind as well so that mind can intuitively know an object, contrary to what Kant asserted.

He appealed to the popular conviction that the proper object of sense is the sole reality, although he despaired of getting men to give up their belief in its externality, and asserted that nothing but prejudice prevented them from doing so ; and there is little doubt that, if it had ever occurred to him, as it did to Berkeley, to explain the genesis of the notion of externality, he would have been more hopeful of commending his theory to the popular mind.

Slow travel, it is asserted, is a state of mind which allows travellers to engage more fully with communities along their route, often favouring visits to spots enjoyed by local residents rather than merely following guidebooks.