An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.

But the facts about our Advisory Board and its members' duties are only one of several sets of facts about the quest for advice, both reliable and imaginative, on which to base our selections of Fellows.

You can relive history and follow, in fancy, the Crusaders in their quest for the Holy Grail as they sail out from Brindisi, an ancient town in the heel of Italy's boot.

At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.

The quest for methods

But the quest for such an index goes on ceaselessly, with all manner of investors and speculators participating, ranging from the sedate institutional type virtually to the proverbial shoe-string operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, daily -- and often nightly -- for the enchanting index that will foretell the eternal secret: Which way will the market move -- up or down??

It recalls to mind the quest of olden times for the fountain of youth, a quest heavily invested in, during the days of wooden ships.

Just as heavily invested are the endeavors of multitudes of modern men who carry on the quest for the enchanting index.

Uncertainty overcoming itself is the precondition of the quest for new and more precise information about the world.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

The builtin headache of the Barnett regime thus far has been the steady stream of job-seekers and others who feel they were given commitments by Barnett at some stage of his eight-year quest for the governor's office.

The quest for holism leads most anthropologists to study a particular place, problem or phenomenon in detail, using a variety of methods, over a more extensive period than normal in many parts of academia.

At the same time, anthropologists urge, as part of their quest for scientific objectivity, cultural relativism, which has an influence on all the sub-fields of anthropology.

The quest for new elements is usually described using atomic numbers.

* Georgia on My Mind is a novelette by Charles Sheffield which involves two major themes: being widowed and the quest for a legendary Babbage computer.

Diodorus Siculus enlists nine Amazons who challenged Heracles to single combat during his quest for Hippolyta's girdle and died against him one by one: Aella, Philippis, Prothoe, Eriboea, Celaeno, Eurybia, Phoebe, Deianeira, Asteria, Marpe, Tecmessa, Alcippe.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

The Council of Bishops speaks to the Church and through the Church into the world and gives leadership in the quest for Christian unity and interreligious relationships.

Finding the right method for constructing such " objective " priors ( for appropriate classes of regular problems ) has been the quest of statistical theorists from Laplace to John Maynard Keynes, Harold Jeffreys, and Edwin Thompson Jaynes: These theorists and their successors have suggested several methods for constructing " objective " priors:

Vathek ’ s pride wins out and, in the end, his quest for power and knowledge ends with him confined to Hell.

Jehu's quest was rooted in more than his quest for power and the favour of the God of Israel.

An issue that the play raises is that once one decides to use violence to further one's quest for power, it is difficult to stop.

He greatly increased the role and power of the orchestra, creating scores with a complex web of leitmotivs, recurring themes often associated with the characters and concepts of the drama ; and he was prepared to violate accepted musical conventions, such as tonality, in his quest for greater expressivity.

The conflicts are brought about by the Zaibach Empire's quest to revive the legendary power from the ancient city of Atlantis.

His quest for increased executive power put him on a collision course with the parliament led by then Prime Minister Francisque Ravony.

They inform him that the Nazis, in their quest for occult power, are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, who is the leading expert on the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis and possesses the headpiece of an artifact called the Staff of Ra.

Manipulation and the quest for power are very prominent themes not only in the play but specifically in the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra.

Russia finally seemed to have gotten what the Russian Empire had been wanting in its quest to become a global power since the reign of Peter the Great.

In addition, corrupt dictators routinely ignore economic and social problems in their quest to amass ever more wealth and power.

His quest for power and revenge brings him to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

The 1st-century BC Epicurean philosopher Lucretius interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an " empty thing ", being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.

Whereas Ged's quest led to his dramatic confrontation with himself and his own darkness, and ultimately, to his acknowledgment of his full identity and power, Tenar's triumph is that of coming to freedom.

Upon returning to Vietnam, he helped his brother in his quest for political power, and Nhu proved an astute and ruthless tactician and strategist, helping Diệm to gain more leverage and outwit rivals.

Assuming the identity of " John Smith " ( the English equivalent of his natural German name ), Skull decided that he would reinvent himself and his quest for absolute power as a means to celebrate his cheating death.

He is on a quest to gain more power after feeling unappreciated.

Eugène, acknowledged as one of the prime movers in legitimizing the Emperor, has remained in Paris to further his quest for power.

The term " Rolo Compressor " was coined to represent Inter's power of " crushing the opposition " in their quest for victories.

The Jay Treaty: Political Background of Founding Fathers ( 1970 ) ( ISBN 0-520-01573-8 ) Focusing on the domestic and ideological aspects, Combs dislikes Hamilton's quest for national power and a " heroic state " dominating the Western Hemisphere, but concludes the Federalists " followed the proper policy " because the treaty preserved peace with Britain.

That quest, Marx notes, always involves a power relationship between different social classes and nations, inasmuch as attempts are made to force other people to pay for costs as much as possible, while maximising one's own entitlement or claims to income from economic activity.

In the end ignorance, the power of the church, bitter infighting between conservatives and liberals, and the quest for personal glory were the main reasons for the downfall of the ' Federation '.

They believe that greed has led the body of the clan astray from its previous glory, so their quest is for righteous military and tyrannical power over other Kindred to reestablish what they believe to be the proper order.

It centers on Kamahl, a barbarian, and his quest to get the Mirari, a magical orb of seemingly endless power.

This culminates in the tentative return of law and order and the quest to restore power through hydroelectricity.