Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.

It was a ridiculous situation and Rector knew it, for Hino, frankly partisan, openly gregarious, would make a poor espionage agent.

He tried defiance and openly flaunted his devotion to his half sister, but he soon saw, as did she, that this course if persisted in would involve them in a common ruin.

Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might -- with daring hyperbole -- Parker vindicated Channing's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines.

all feared the supposed stigma they believed would inevitably attach to any realtor who openly introduced non-white, particularly Negro, peoples into all-white, restricted areas.

The Nigerian government did not, however, openly reject the judgment but instead called for an agreement that would provide " peace with honour, with the interest and welfare of our people.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.

Ribbentrop hoped that the prospect of facing the Tripartite Pact would deter the United States from supporting Britain, but since the Pact was more or less openly directed against the United States ( the Pact made a point of stressing that the unnamed great power it was directed against was not the Soviet Union ), it had the opposite effect on American public opinion than the one intended.

The leaks go on to speculate that these clandestine operations were motivated by the Kenya political leadership's desire to support Southern Sudan, but not in a way that would openly provoke Khartoum or potentially threaten South Sudan's eventual independence.

In 1860, this would boil back into full scale sectarian war, when the Maronites began openly opposing the power of the Ottoman Empire.

Their attacks sought to force the governments to give up such masquerades and openly operate as fascist governments ; expecting that in such scenario the people would support the guerrillas.

The garrisons in Petrograd, Moscow, and other cities, the Northern and Western fronts, and the sailors of the Baltic Fleet in September openly declared through their elected representative body Tsentrobalt that they did not recognize the authority of the Provisional Government and would not carry out any of its commands.

A few months later, at a party meeting, it was decided that administrative actions against the writers who openly expressed support of reformation would be taken.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

As anticipated, Dehomag went into revolt, its management decrying Watson's stupidity and openly wondering whether or not it would be best if the firm separated from its American owner.

Since May 2009, homosexuals are allowed to serve openly in the military after the Defence Minister signed a decree stating that military recruitment policy would no longer discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

British merchants who declared openly that they were Christian and would not trade with heathens and infidels ( Muslims and the Norse ) would get preferred status for availability and pricing of goods through a Christian network of traders.

In 1969, when it was first suggested that the United Kingdom would join the European Economic Community, Powell spoke openly of his opposition to such a move.

Although several candidates were openly competing for the 1916 nomination — most prominently conservative Senator Elihu Root of New York and liberal Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts — the party's bosses wanted a moderate who would be acceptable to both factions of the party.

This was reason enough for the queen's party to openly challenge Fulk, as Fulk's unfounded assertions of infidelity was a public affront that would damage Melisende's position entirely.

On one of the emperor's visits to St Peter's Basilica, the pope openly called him to account for his favourite's conduct, exhorting him by the grave of St Peter to promise that he would allow no schismatical assemblies in Rome.

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

In times of emergencies, the Senate would declare that a dictator was required, and the current consuls would appoint a dictator.

The King would have the unique power to propose war, with the legislature then deciding whether to declare war.

At that point, Madero would declare himself provisional President of Mexico, and called for a general refusal to acknowledge the central government, restitution of land to villages and Indian communities, and freedom for political prisoners.

The King would have the unique power to propose war, with the legislature then deciding whether to declare war.

During handfasting the man and woman in turn would take the other by the right hand and declare aloud that they there and then accepted each other as man and wife.

The opening lines of this founding document would declare that the Society of Jesus was founded to " strive especially for the propagation and defense of the faith and progress of souls in Christian life and doctrine.

After Guevara's death, Sartre would declare him to be " not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age " and the " era's most perfect man.

Ribbentrop expressed his firmly-held belief that neither Britain nor France would go to war for Poland, but if that should occur, he fully expected the Italians to honour the terms of the Pact of Steel ( which was both an offensive and defensive treaty ), and declare war not only on Poland, but on the Western powers if necessary.

Jefferson had the expedition declare " sovereignty " and demonstrate their military strength to ensure native tribes would be subordinate to the US, as European colonizers did elsewhere.

There was much enthusiasm for the concept and for several years, from about 1983 onward, computer industry pundits would regularly declare the coming year to be “ the year of the LAN ”.

Kant argued for the establishment of a peaceful world community, not in a sense of a global government, but in the hope that each state would declare itself a free state that respects its citizens and welcomes foreign visitors as fellow rational beings, thus promoting peaceful society worldwide.

Likewise, at the state ratifying conventions, over two dozen delegates in at least seven states indicated that under the Constitution, the federal courts would have the power to declare statutes unconstitutional.

The opponents to ratification, known as Anti-federalists, agreed that the federal courts would have the power to declare statutes unconstitutional, but were concerned that this would give the federal courts too much power.

The harsh conditions and terrain of the Arabian peninsula meant a near-constant state of conflict between the local tribes, but once a year they would declare a truce and converge upon Mecca in an annual pilgrimage.

His heir-apparent, Abdülhamid II ( 1876 – 1909 ), was invited to assume power on the condition that he would declare a constitutional monarchy, which he did on 23 November 1876.

For example, a four-player match of Oh Hell consists of twenty-three deals, from hand size 1 up to 12 ( forty-eight cards dealt and one turned face up for trump ; 13 cards cannot be dealt, as there would be no card remaining to declare trump ) and back down to 1.

In 1991, addressing a graduating class of the University of Michigan, U. S. President George H. W. Bush spoke against " a movement would declare certain topics ' off-limits ,' certain expressions ' off-limits ', even certain gestures ' off-limits '" in allusion to liberal Political Correctness.

In 1852 the isthmus would adopt trial by jury in criminal cases and — 30 years after abolition — would finally declare and enforce an end to slavery.

When the Germans asked him to declare himself in favour of their desire for national unity, he replied that he would not as this would weaken the Habsburg state: “ Truly, if it were not that Austria had long existed, it would be necessary, in the interest of Europe, in the interest of humanity itself, to create it .”