While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Finally we may note that the idea appears in educational theory where its influence is at present widespread.

Even in its present form, however, the first part of Malraux's unrecoverable novel is among the greatest works of mid-twentieth century literature ; ;

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

It is interesting to note that the present level of military electronics procurement is greater than the industry's total sales to all markets in 1950-1953, which were good years for our industry with television enjoying its initial period of rapid consumer acceptance.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

Beyond this, philosophy may urge the social sciences forward by asking the type of question that falls outside the present scope of social inquiry, but within its potential domain of relevance.

In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

Your present history is equally admirable for its industrial and scientific achievements.

Uninhibited lyricism should be distinguished from its exact opposite -- the sterile, extraneous invention of the corn-belt metaphysicals, or present blight of poetic professors.

This circular edifice, constructed by Agrippa in B.C. 27, was rebuilt in its present shape by the Emperor Hadrian.

East Providence should organize its civil defense setup and begin by appointing a full-time director, Raymond H. Hawksley, the present city CD head, believes.

But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes.

`` Emory could not continue to operate according to its present standards as an institution of higher learning, of true university grade, and meet its financial obligations, without the tax-exemption privileges which are available to it only so long as it conforms to the aforementioned constitutional and statutory provisions '', the statement said.

On microfilm, headquarters also has a file of the New York Times from its founding in 1851 to the present day, as well as bound volumes of important periodicals.

it is no longer to be formulated in terms of the nature of present action itself, its intention, and proximate effect or the thing to be done.

In its present artless, low-budget form, the subject matter seems designed to invite censorial wrath.

Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

As a young man in 1057, Rodrigo fought against the Moorish stronghold of Zaragoza, making its emir al-Muqtadir a vassal of Sancho.

He later succeeded in taking their main stronghold at Ishiyama Hongan-ji after an 11-year siege that ended with its surrender.

From its stronghold of Narbonne, they tried to conquer Aquitaine but suffered a major defeat at the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ).

After the invasion of the formerly Germanic territories ( the part largely corresponding to GDR ) by the Sorbs ’ Slavic ancestors in the 5th and 6th centuries, the Sorbian language ( or its predecessors ) has been in use in much of ( later ) East Germany ’ s Southern half for several centuries, and has still its stronghold in ( Upper and Lower ) Lusatia where it enjoys national protection and fostering until today.

Lomé's " Grand Marché " is known for its entrepreneurial market women, who have a stronghold over many areas of trade, particularly in African cloth.

Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold ; its natural harbor soon developed into a commercial center competing with Buenos Aires.

Since Mycenae was the capital of a state that ruled, or dominated, much of the eastern Mediterranean world, the rulers must have placed their stronghold in this less populated and more remote region for its defensive value.

Also, on the Coromandel Coast, it moved its chief stronghold from Pulicat to Negapatnam, so as to secure a monopoly on the pepper trade at the detriment of the French and the Danes.

Finally, the Qin empire had a geographical advantage due to its fertility and strategic situation, protected by mountains that made the state a natural stronghold.

In spite of its being fortified, it actually was used as a private residence rather than a stronghold.

Nowadays, the city center is mainly composed of the " citadelle ", the stronghold, also called Terra-Nova, with the Genoese Governors ' Palace, the old port and its popular quarter and the market plaza, and finally the ensemble of buildings along the " Boulevard Paoli ", the main commercial street of the city, which lies from the Justice Court to the Avenue Maréchal Sebastiani.

This county got its name in 1101 from a domain near the stronghold: Holtland or Holland.

After it became the chief Jutish settlement, it gained its English name Canterbury, itself derived from the Old English Cantwareburh (" Kent people's stronghold ").

The 2004 local election saw the party lose control of the two south Wales councils it gained in 1999, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Caerphilly, while retaining its stronghold of Gwynedd in the north-west.

Jainism retreated to the West and Northwest, which have remained its stronghold to the present.

It was then located on the territory of Lower Lorraine, in the area of Geldern and Roermond, with its main stronghold at Montfort ( built 1260 ).

During the Middle Ages, because of its proximity to the Kingdom of Scotland, Carlisle became an important military stronghold ; Carlisle Castle, still relatively intact, was built in 1092 by William Rufus, and having once served as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots.

While it is not clear, it seems likely that the kingdom took its name from a major stronghold within it and it has been suggested that this was broadly conterminous with the earlier Civitas Carvetiorum, Carlisle.

Brittany has historically been a stronghold of the Roman Catholic Church, and its rates of church attendance have tended to be considerably higher than the national average.

; Aglarond ( Hornburg ): A stronghold built in the Second Age near the Glittering Caves in the west of the White Mountains, which was later ceded to the Rohirrim together with Calenardhon in 2510, its garrison merging with that of Isengard.

The Second Sino-Japanese War was soon followed by the resumed Chinese Civil War, and the cities of East China fell to the Communists one after another, the Kuomintang government again tried to make Sichuan its stronghold on the mainland.

Uruguay, then known as the Province of the Eastern Bank of the Uruguay River, was considered a somewhat breakaway Province, since Montevideo served as the seat of the Royalist Viceroy Francisco Javier de Elío during its war on the May Revolution ; and that, after the independentists victory, the Province became the main stronghold of the Federal League leader José Gervasio Artigas, who waged a long and bitter dispute during the 1810s against the Unitarians about the shape the national organization would have.

* In the stronghold of the giant Útgarda-Loki, Thor drank three mighty draughts from a horn during a drinking contest but gave up when he was unable to empty the horn of its contents ; this was also one of three tasks he did-and failed-during his stay, the other two being to lift a cat ( he made it lift a paw, leaving three on ground ) and to defeat an old woman ; it's later revealed that the horn was connected to the sea ( which he leveled down by three fingers ), the cat was the World Sepent and the old woman, the Old Age itself.

While it is fairly represented in all Basque and Navarrese Spanish territories, Batasuna counts as its stronghold the province of Guipuscoa.