In his speech accepting the nomination, Johnson said that by taking a nominee from a seceding state, " the Union Party declared its belief that the rebellious states are still in the Union, that their loyal citizens are still citizens of the United States.

On February 25, Gnassingbé resigned as president, soon after accepting nomination to run for the office in April.

In fact, Hayes had long before, in his letter accepting the Republican nomination, indicated his desire that the South enjoy " the blessings of honest and capable local government " ( but only with guarantees that the states would guard the civil rights of the freedmen ).

In the United States, upon accepting Democratic nomination for president in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised " a new deal for the American people ," a phrase that has endured as a label for his administration and its many domestic achievements.

The mid-term convention was begun in 1974, after the fiasco of the 1972 Democratic National Convention, which saw the presidential nominee, George S. McGovern, accepting the nomination at 3: 00 a. m., and which was followed by an electoral disaster, in which the party's candidates received only the electoral votes of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, and was intended to reorganize the party structure and get it back on track for future elections.

Concerned about the damage to the LNP's reputation in the electorate, in March 2011 a motion was moved at the party's Federal Divisional Council " that this Council notes the actions of the Member for Fisher in accepting nomination by the Labor Party for the position of Deputy Speaker and competing for this position in opposition to Mr Bruce Scott MP nominated for this position by the coalition parties and expresses its concern over the ongoing negative publicity directed at the Member for Fisher and the resulting damage to the Liberal National Party and requests the Applicant Review Committee to take note and take action as deemed appropriate.

He then retired to farming, but did consent to accepting the nomination of the Know-Nothings for governor in 1855.

Upon accepting his nomination to serve as president of the World Bank in 1995, Wolfensohn divested of his ownership interest in James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.

The convention is perhaps best known for Bush's " thousand points of light " speech accepting the nomination.

* Acceptance speeches ( with Benjamin Gitlow ) New York: Workers Library Publishers 1928 ; accepting the parties ' presidential nomination

However, the Senate was outraged that it had been pre-empted from the process, and issued an edict fobidding anyone from accepting the nomination or discussing it during Pope's Felix's life, on pain of exile and confiscation of property.

Ricardo Arias Calderón was viewed as a likely successor to Arnulfo Arias as principal spokesman for the opposition, eventually accepting nomination as ADOC First Vice-Presidential candidate in 1989.

After the birth of her son, she worked infrequently until accepting a role on Broadway in Seesaw, which netted her a Tony Award nomination in 1974.

However, Nasution waited until Suharto expressed support for his nomination before accepting the nomination.

Smith was accepting the Democratic nomination for presidency.

Most of the items in this alleged " Compromise of 1877 " were either never acted on ( calling into question whether they were ever agreed to ) or had already been the established position of Hayes from the time of his accepting the Republican nomination ( hence not a sudden " compromise " at all ).

General Eisenhower had resigned his commission on July 18, 1952, after accepting the Republican Party nomination for the Presidency.

On August 31, 2008, shortly after accepting the democratic nomination, Barack Obama and Joe Biden held a rally at C. O.

Suharto asked Hamengkubuwono to change his mind, but Hamengkubuwono continued to reject the offer and cited health as his reason for not accepting the nomination.

In 1513, the Duke of Savoy nominated his cousin as bishop of Geneva, and Berthelier called for a rebellion, but later made a political compromise with the Bishop of Geneva when accepting nomination as commander of the Castle of Penay.

The House Divided Speech was an address given by Abraham Lincoln ( who would later become President of the United States ) on June 16, 1858, at what was then the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, upon accepting the Illinois Republican Party's nomination as that state's United States senator.

The D-Plan was instituted in the early 1970s at the same time that Dartmouth began accepting female undergraduates.

In August 2007, however ( the beginning of the application process for the class of 2012 ), HMC began accepting ACT results, a year after Wake Forest abandoned its former SAT-only policy.

In 1882 he began a connection with West Africa which lasted the rest of his life, by accepting the chairmanship of the National African Company, formed by Sir George Goldie, which in 1886 received a charter under the title of the Royal Niger Company and in 1899 was taken over by the British government, its territories being constituted the protectorate of Nigeria.

Beginning in the 1970s and influenced by new perspectives in the sociological and biological sciences, some Orthodox rabbis began to adopt more sympathetic positions toward those who feel drawn to homosexual activity, without ever accepting the legitimacy of homosexual activity itself.

On March 26, 2007, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York followed suit and began accepting openly homosexual candidates for admission for their Rabbinical program.

Yitzhak Rabin took over, though he also resigned towards the end of the eighth Knesset's term following a series of scandals including the suicide of Housing Minister Avraham Ofer after police began investigating allegations he used party funds illegally, and Asher Yadlin ( the governor-designate of the Bank of Israel ) being sentenced to five years in prison for accepting bribes.

One such distributor, Public Software Library ( PSL ), began an order-taking service for programmers who otherwise had no means of accepting credit card orders.

The US Air Force was interested and began accepting bids for development systems in early 1959.

Watson soon began second-guessing himself for accepting the medal, and eventually returned the medal to the German government in June 1940.

She began to regret accepting the role ; and, to add to her disappointment, she was not confident in the abilities of her leading man, James Davis in his first major screen role.

In accepting that these forms of productions were there to stay, scholars began using the term informal sector, which is credited to the British anthropologist Keith Hart in a study on Ghana in 1973 but also alluded to by the International Labour Organization in a widely read study on Kenya in 1972.

Faced with staggering losses in white units, commanders on the ground began accepting black replacements, thus integrating their units.

After gaining this public notoriety, Zerzan began accepting speaking engagements and giving interviews around the world explaining anarcho-primitivism and the more general Global Justice Movement.

Moreover, the society began accepting new members for the first time since 2001, with musician Thomas Dolby becoming the first member to join the newly reconvened society.

With a new city cemetery built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 ( save for very few exceptions ) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve the graveyard.

Originally, a boy's boarding school, in 1971 the Academy began accepting girls.

By the late 1860s, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov stopped accepting what they now considered his high-handed meddling with their work, and Stasov began to distance himself from Balakirev.

The same year as the rebrand, Nickelodeon began accepting traditional advertising.

In addition, the military began accepting Sunni volunteers from throughout Iraq.

* Mad Men ( 2009 ) — In the season three episode entitled " Wee Small Hours ," a Bowdoin t-shirt is worn by character Suzanne Farrell, even though the episode is set several years before Bowdoin began accepting women.

The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has developed a test for the disease and began accepting samples in April 2003.

In 1970, the Upper School began accepting boys, and the school changed its name to The Bush School.

In 1931, Bryn Mawr began accepting men as graduate students, while remaining women-only at the undergraduate level.

While dying of cancer in 1963, he tells Mike about his experiences in the U. S. Air Force in the 1920s and about establishing the Black Spot, a club started by Will and his black Air Force buddies and originally meant exclusively for black members, but gradually began accepting members of other races as well.

However, many federal laws ( e. g. those equalizing pay, employment, education, employment opportunities, credit, ending pregnancy discrimination, and requiring NASA, the Military Academies, and other organizations to admit women ), state laws ( i. e. those ending spousal abuse and marital rape ), Supreme Court rulings ( i. e. ruling the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applied to women ), and state ERAs established women's equal status under the law, and social custom and consciousness began to change, accepting women's equality.