During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.

What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.

His forecast of the form of government suitable to the modern world may be seen as prophetic: the largely ceremonial offices of president in some modern parliamentary democracies in Europe and e. g. Israel can be perceived as elected or appointed versions of Hegel's constitutional monarch ; the Russian and French presidents, with their stronger powers, may also be regarded in Hegelian terms as wielding powers suitable to the embodiment of the national will.

" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Dalhousie tied for 6th in their 2011 Medical Doctoral university rankings.

Levels of accreditation vary: some of the institutions receive little outside oversight, and some may be fraudulent diploma mills, although in many jurisdictions, an institution may not use terms such as " university " without accreditation and authorisation, often overseen by the national government – for example, the Quality Assurance Agency in the UK.

An annual commemoration, in the form of a military parade, was held each year on Easter Sunday, culminating in a huge national celebration on the 50th anniversary in 1966. began to write of it in terms of a " blood sacrifice ".

It also rejected the idea that supranational organisations are on an equal level ( in terms of political influence ) to national governments.

Madison's Cabinet, that included men of mediocre talent, was chosen in terms of national interest and political harmony.

The economic situation was particularly dynamic in late 2010 and early 2011 but there were signs of a slowdown, both in the international economic environment and in terms of national indicators.

Archaeologists seeking a neutral orientation that is neither biblical nor national have utilized terms such as Syro-Palestinian archaeology and archaeology of the southern Levant.

After 1871 Masurians who expressed sympathy for Poland were deemed " national traitors " by German nationalists ( this increased especially after 1918 ) According to Stefan Berger after 1871 the Masurians in the German Empire were seen in a view that while acknowledging their " objective " Polishness ( in terms of culture and language ) they felt " subjectively " German and thus should be tightly integrated into German nation-state ; to Berger this argument went directly against the German nationalist demands in Alsace where Alsatians were declared German despite their " subjective " choice.

Rather than standards of national wealth which are rationalized in terms of first-world development, industrialization, capital and assets appreciation, trade surplus or deficit ; the measure of a country's wealth in Mohism is a matter of sufficient provision and a large population.

Under the terms of the accord, both sides agreed to disarm, Díaz would be allowed to finish his term and a new national army would be established, the Guardia Nacional ( National Guard ), with U. S. soldiers remaining in the country to supervise the upcoming November presidential election.

The UK is a unitary state formed initially by the merger of two independent kingdoms, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, but the Treaty of Union ( 1707 ) that set out the agreed terms has ensured the continuation of distinct features of each state, including separate legal systems and separate national churches.

The adoption of national identity in terms of historical development, has commonly been the result of a response by an influential group or groups that is unsatisfied with traditional identities due to inconsistency between their defined social order and the experience of that social order by its members, resulting in a situation of anomie that nationalists seek to resolve.

Outing has been featured in comedy films as well, such as the French comedy Le Placard ( The Closet ), where a heterosexual man is falsely outed, or in the 1997 comedy In & Out where Kevin Kline stars as a small-town teacher who gets outed on national television, and is then forced to come to terms with his own unrecognized homosexuality.

The edict paved the way for the most far-reaching reforms in terms of their social consequences, including the creation of a national education system and the abolition of the imperial examinations in 1905.

Spoken by around 0. 9 % of Switzerland's 7. 7 million inhabitants, Romansh is Switzerland's least-used national language in terms of number of speakers and the tenth most spoken language in Switzerland overall.

" The war that had lasted so many years was at length ended by their acceding to the terms offered by the King ; which were renunciation of their national religious customs and the worship of devils, acceptance of the sacraments of the Christian faith and religion, and union with the Franks to form one people.

After the Second World War, a serious housing shortage and the return of large numbers of veterans led the national government, through the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation ( CMHC ), to promote suburbs by offering very low cost mortgages, with small down payments and easy terms.

Although the same parties had previously signed the Treaty of Sèvres, it was rejected before it had been ratified, by the Turkish national movement led by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who fought against the terms of the treaty and the occupation of Anatolia.

In terms of foreign policy, Grant revealed an " unexpected capacity for deliberation and consultation " that promoted the national interest.

Among these are general economic conditions as measured by real and nominal gross domestic product ; inflation ; labor supply and demand ; wage levels, distribution and differentials ; employment terms ; productivity growth ; labor costs ; business operating costs ; the number and trend of bankruptcies ; economic freedom rankings ; standards of living and the prevailing average wage rate.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked the University 10th in their 2011 Medical Doctoral university rankings.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, Davis ranks 23rd in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty.

The 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 157th in the world, making it 7th in Canada In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Western 9th in their 2011 Medical Doctoral university rankings.

Notable rival German universities in terms of rankings include TU München, University of Heidelberg and the Free University of Berlin.

Notable rival German universities in terms of rankings, particularly in the fields of the Arts & Humanities as well as the Social Sciences include the University of Munich, University of Heidelberg and the Humboldt University.

As of April 15, 2010, according to Alexa. com, Sina. com. cn was 14th in terms of Top Site rankings and third in terms of Traffic Rank within China.

According to Brian Leiter's law school rankings, Hastings ranks 27th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty, on par with USC.

In Warsaw, she suffered her worst defeat in terms of the rankings on WTA Tour level, falling to a wild card, Agnieszka Radwańska, ranked No. 309.

* Another meaning for point is in terms of standings ( or rankings ).

Dealogic's league tables are rankings of investment banks in terms of the dollar volume of deals that investment banks work on.

In 2007, HUFS won third place out of all Korean universities on the National Customer Satisfaction Index, and placed second in terms of internationalization two years in a row in the university rankings of JoongAng Ilbo.

A new system for determining the " weight " of each tournament was also introduced, based on the strength of the tournament's field in terms of their pre-tournament world rankings.

According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, UCLA ranks 15th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty during the years 2005 – 2009.

It ranks highly in terms of liveability, being listed in the Top 10 of The Economist's World's Most Liveable Cities index in 2010 and being ranked the most liveable city in Australia by the Property Council of Australia in 2011 and again in 2012.

The closest other European countries were considerably better in terms of press freedom, with Serbia ranked 85th and Romania 52nd.

Their standard of living is reflected in the country's " very high " Human Development Index, and Cyprus is ranked 23rd in the world in terms of the Quality-of-life Index.

In terms of research performance, High Impact Universities 2010 ranked Dalhousie 239th out of 500 universities, and 12th in Canada.

Together they are ranked by many scientists as the second largest of the five major extinctions in Earth's history in terms of percentage of genera that went extinct.

Currently the LAF is ranked 6th in the world in terms of growth, with the number of military personnel doubling over the period between 1985 to 2000.

Accountants Deloitte ranked Liverpool eighth in the Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world's football clubs in terms of revenue.

It is ranked 30th in the world in terms of GDP ( PPP ) as of 2011, and its emergent, though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the third-largest on the continent, producing a large proportion of goods and services for the West African region.

Despite some continued systematic problems, Poland has made a large economic progress over the last decade, and now is ranked 20-th worldwide in terms of the GDP.

Yet, the ability to establish and conduct business easily has been cause for economic hardship ; the 2010 the World Economic Forum ranked Poland near the bottom of OECD countries in terms of the clarity, efficiency and neutrality of the legal framework used by firms to settle disputes.

In 2002, it was estimated that Pittsburgh ranked 22nd of 69 urban places in the U. S. in terms of number of residents 25 years or older who had completed a Bachelor's degree, with 31 % of such people having completed the degree.

The same study ranked Pittsburgh 15th of the 69 places in terms of number of residents 25 years or older who have completed a high school degree, with a figure of 84. 7 %.

Singapore is ranked second globally in terms of containerised traffic, with 21. 3 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units ( TEUs ) handled in 2004, and is also the world's busiest hub for transshipment traffic.

The economy of South Africa is the largest in Africa, accounts for 24 % of its Gross Domestic Product in terms of PPP, and is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, which makes the country one of only four countries in Africa represented in this category ( the others being Botswana, Gabon and Mauritius ).

In 2009, the Shanghai Stock Exchange ranked third among worldwide stock exchanges in terms of trading volume and sixth in terms of the total capitalization of listed companies, and the trading volume of six key commodities including rubber, copper and zinc on the Shanghai Futures Exchange all ranked first in the world.

The college is ranked second in the nation in terms of the percentage of women faculty members, according to Prism, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Turkey is one of the world's leading shipbuilding nations ; in 2007 Turkish shipyards ranked 4th in the world ( behind China, South Korea and Japan ) in terms of the number of ordered ships, and also 4th in the world ( behind Italy, USA and Canada ) in terms of the number of ordered mega yachts.

Eligibility in the Local Context, commonly referred to as ELC, is met by applicants ranked in the top 4 % ( 7 % as of 2011 ) of their high school class in terms of performance on an 11-unit pattern of UC-approved high school courses.

The consumer has ranked all available alternative combinations of commodities in terms of the satisfaction they provide him.

To compute the concentration ratio, the firms are ranked in order of size “ usually measured in terms of sale ”, starting from the largest in the industry at the top and going down to the smallest firm at the bottom.