We began by declaring that all men are created equal.

After the war began, he long refused to permit emancipation of the slaves by Union action even in the Border States that stayed with the Union.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

He began the dialogue by having his wife announce that one does not invade people's homes without warning them that one is coming, and went on from that with the entire catalogue of his social gaucheries.

but when he passed us by, a musket roared, and he reared his horse, swung it around, and began to whip it back in the direction from which he had come.

The man began to creep in the wrong direction, deceived by a slight rise in the ground!!

As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.

Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.

So he paid a call on Barco in his cell and began their chat by stating bluntly:

The study of the radio emission of the moon and planets began with the detection of the thermal radiation of the moon at 1.25-cm wave length by Dicke and Beringer ( 1946 ).

The writer began this special class by explaining his background thinking for creating such a section in the first place.

instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep.

These were carried out not too faithfully by Filippo Costaggini, who began by supplying the missing member to the founder of Pennsylvania and noting in pencil, in Italian, that he `` began at this point ''.

A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

`` The political and intellectual Left began fighting humor and comedy years ago, because they fear things they do not understand and cannot manage, such as satire and irony, such as humor and comedy.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

He began his career fighting the revolutionary armies of France.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Cut off from the remainder of the Italian army, Dabormida began a fighting retreat towards friendly positions.

As the wearing of armor fell out of favor, dagger fighting techniques began to evolve which emphasized the use of the dagger with a conventional or forward grip, while the reverse or icepick grip was retained when attacking an unsuspecting opponent from behind, such as an assassination.

Virginia, the largest colony, deserved recognition, and New England — where the fighting began — realized it needed Southern support.

As the island of Cyprus was heading towards independence from the United Kingdom the Greek ( 82 %) and Turkish ( 18 %) communities began embroiled to a bitter inter-communal fighting, partly sponsored by the two " motherlands ".

A truce began on 11 June, but fighting resumed on 8 July and stopped again on 18 July, before restarting in mid-October and finally ending on 24 July 1949 with the signing of the armistice agreement with Syria.

Karate began as a common fighting system known as te ( Okinawan: ti ) among the Pechin class of the Ryukyuans.

In the mid-thirties conditions began to change in Bratislava and Imi felt he had to take his fighting skills to the streets to protect Jewish neighborhoods from the growing numbers of fascist and anti-Semitic thugs.

After an incident involving sentries on the Greek-Bulgarian border in October 1925, fighting began between the two countries.

The empire began to decline during the early 18th century when fighting among the sub-chiefs and the burgeoning slave trade weakened the Maravi Empire's authority.

In spring 1917, he was also elected to command the students ' volunteer army, set up to defend the school from potential attack after two warlords began fighting one another in Hunan.

As the Middle Ages progressed in Italy, Italian cities began to rely mostly on mercenaries to do their fighting rather than the militias that had dominated the early and high medieval period in this region.

Albert began his task by touring the Empire, preaching a Crusade against the Baltic countries, and was assisted in this by a Papal Bull, which declared that fighting against the Baltic heathens was of the same rank as participating in a crusade to the Holy Land.

After the invasions, the Mane sub-chiefs among whom the country had been divided began fighting among themselves.

The character of the conflict in England gradually began to shift ; as historian Frank Barlow suggests, by the late 1140s " the civil war was over ", barring the occasional outbreak of fighting.

With the truce broken, the armies began fighting again.

Even after fighting in the American Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, most colonists still hoped for reconciliation with Great Britain.

Following Street Fighter's lead, the use of command-based hidden moves began to pervade other games in the rising fighting game genre.

In the latter part of the 1990s, the fighting game genre began to decline in popularity, with specific franchises falling into difficulty.

As the Intifada came to a close, new armed Palestinian groups — in particular Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ( PIJ )— began targeting Israeli civilians with the new tactic of suicide bombing and internal fighting amongst the Palestinians increased dramatically.