But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

In fact, insofar as science generates any fear, it stems not so much from scientific prowess and gadgets but from the fact that new unanswered questions arise, which, until they are understood, create uncertainty.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.

In fact, if judgments are to be rendered upon the soundness of his historicism, they must be based on scanty evidence.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, through intellectual toughness, perception, through experience in fact, have obviously liberated themselves from any sentimental Krim self-indulgence they might have been tempted to.

It is a fact of life that magazines are edited by groups: they have to be or they wouldn't be published at all.

The fact is that the Italians, French and British know that they have no defense against nuclear bombs.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

they listened and suddenly a step towards the door announced another important fact.

Are they indifferent to the fact that the dog can easily pick up germs from the preceding patient??

Due to the fact that building codes and regulations vary so much throughout the country, the first thing to do is to find out what, if any, they are.

Important as these differences are, they should not obscure the basic fact that by shifting the hypothalamic balance sufficiently to the parasympathetic side, we produce depressions, whereas a shift in the opposite direction causes excitatory effects and, eventually, maniclike changes.

These are few and seemingly disjointed data, but they illustrate the important fact that fundamental alterations in conditioned reactions occur in a variety of states in which the hypothalamic balance has been altered by physiological experimentation, pharmacological action, or clinical processes.

Above all, we should seek to encourage the leaders of these societies to accept the unpleasant fact that they are responsible for their fates.

In fact, they went so far as to caution the writer that if he attempted to design a section exclusively for married students there should be, at the beginning, some `` hindsight '' study ; ;

The tribunal itself, or the judge, can in some systems call upon experts to technically evaluate a certain fact or action, in order to provide the court with a complete knowledge on the fact / action it is judging.

Posted flamebait can provide the poster with a controlled trigger-and-response setting in which to anonymously engage in conflicts and indulge in aggressive behavior without facing the consequences that such behavior might bring in a face-to-face encounter, a fact parodied in a YouTube video by Isabel Fay.

Astronomers had believed for some time that parallax would provide the first accurate measurement of interstellar distances — in fact, in the 1830s there was a fierce competition between astronomers to be the first to measure a stellar parallax accurately.

Jerry Lewis Cinemas stated that the theater could be operated by as little as a staff of two due to automation and the fact that the franchisor would provide support in booking films and help in other areas of film exhibition.

The circuit operation is based on the fact that the forward-biased base-emitter junction of the switched-on bipolar transistor can provide a path for the capacitor restoration.

The potential performance gains of L4 are tempered by the fact that the user-space applications will often have to provide many of the functions formerly supported by the kernel.

Beowulf was felt to provide people self-identified as " Anglo-Saxon " with their missing " national epic ", just when the need for it was first being felt: the fact that Beowulf himself was a Geat was easily overlooked.

In fact, the three methods that all COM objects must provide ( in the IUnknown interface ) all increment or decrement the reference count.

In fact, to ensure a user-friendly system, a system may deliberately provide fewer features than it is capable of.

The effect of the relations in G is to make various such strings represent the same element of G. In fact the relations provide a list of strings that can be either introduced where we want, or cancelled out whenever we see them, without changing the ' value ', i. e. the group element that is the result of the multiplication.

This action, over time, would provide the proof to a deeply prejudiced white America that they were not in fact "' naturally ' stupid and incompetent.

In serial communications, there exists a type of adapter that is similar in appearance to a gender changer, and in fact may provide the function of changing the gender, but is not the same thing.

However, the fact that there exists in the case of all partial profile evidence the possibility that a " missing " allele might exculpate the accused altogether does not provide sufficient grounds for rejecting such evidence.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Even the fact that certain politicians might “ provide their face " to the actual decisions of their inferiors might not mitigate this effect, but rather strong parliamentary rights of control and influence in legislative procedures ( as they do exist in the example of Germany ).

After their homecoming, Menelaus and Helen's marriage is strained ; Menelaus continually revisits the human cost of the Trojan War, particularly in light of the fact that Helen could not provide him a male heir.

Logistically prosection allows more flexibility than dissection as there is no commitment to provide a cadaver per a certain number of students, this in fact create opportunities for cadavers to be used, for example at Birmingham, for Special Study Modules ( SSMs ) and postgraduate teaching.

The importance of pictorialism to Irving, and to other theatre professionals of the Victorian era, is exemplified by the fact that Irving had used Ford Madox Brown's painting Cordelia ’ s Portion as the inspiration for the look of his production, and that the artist himself was brought in to provide sketches for the settings of other scenes.

In an exceptional, however practical situation, where a user purchases a pornographic movie on the Internet, the purchaser nowadays, must accept the fact that he has to provide credit card details to the provider, thereby possibly risking being identified.

Due to the fact that a drum brakes friction contact area is at the circumference of the brake, a drum brake can provide more braking force than an equal diameter disc brake.

Charleston is known as The Holy City perhaps by virtue of the prominence of churches on the low-rise cityscape, perhaps because, like Mecca, its devotees hold it so dear, and perhaps for the fact that Carolina was among the few original thirteen colonies to provide toleration for all Protestant religions, though it was not open to Roman Catholics.

The fact that Henry VII did not provide an official public version of the fate of the Princes, despite Warbeck's activities, until the Tyrell confession, has been interpreted as meaning either that he was unaware of the true story or that publishing it would have not been in his interests.

The interest stems from the fact that accurate measurements of the unit cell volume, atomic weight and mass density of a pure crystalline solid provide a direct determination of the Avogadro constant.

The fact that we found this marker in such high concentrations in one of the Lemba subclans, the Buba — much higher, incidentally, than the general Lemba population — seemed finally to provide a real, usable link between the Lemba and Jews.