In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.

He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

but Wright stayed in the United States.

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

However, the location prefix for continental United States is K and the ICAO codes are usually the IATA code with this prefix — for example, the ICAO code for LAX is KLAX.

It was not renamed, however, as the " United "- prefix had never been part of its name, but rather was retrospectively added by historians for descriptive purposes ( cf.

In 1925 the Library acquired its " legal deposit " status by an Act of Parliament and 11 years later was granted the prefix " Royal " by King George V of the United Kingdom.

In the United States, the use of the nano prefix for the farad unit of electrical capacitance is uncommon ; capacitors of that size are more often expressed in terms of a small fraction of a microfarad or a large number of picofarads.

The symbol " µg " ( mu-g ) conforms to the International System of Units and is often used in scientific literature, but the United States-based JCAHO recommends that hospitals do not use this symbol in handwritten orders due to the risk that the symbol µ might be misread as the prefix m, resulting in a thousandfold overdose.

) is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other Commonwealth Realms, and occasionally elsewhere.

The United States Postal Service assigned Marble Hill the ZIP Code 10463 ( the “ 104 ” prefix used for Bronx localities, while " 100 " through " 102 " are reserved for Manhattan addresses ), although mail can be addressed to either " New York, NY " as in Manhattan, or " Bronx, NY ".

* General Schedule, a prefix designating a pay grade in the United States civil service

* M3, amateur Radio callsign prefix in the United Kingdom

In the mid-20th century United States, before the advent of All-Number Calling, numbers were seven digits long including a two-digit prefix which was expressed as the letters rather than numbers e. g. ; KL5-5445.

As a grandson of a British sovereign in the male line, he was styled as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the prefix, His Royal Highness, styled HRH Prince Edward of Kent.

As a grandchild of a British sovereign in the male line, he is styled as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the prefix His Royal Highness.

* United Star Ship or United Space Ship, as a ship prefix in the Star Trek franchise

* United States Ship, typically as a ship prefix in the United States Navy ( includes submarines )

In the United Kingdom, all sons and daughters of viscounts and barons ( including the holders of life peerages, but not judicial " Lords " who are not peers ) and the younger sons of earls are styled with this prefix.

Then Immediate set up a short-lived deal with United Artists, who issued two singles using the Immediate moniker ( E-1901, E-1902 ) before signing a deal with CBS to set up a new label series, which picked selective Immediate singles ( using product codes with the ZS7 prefix ) and albums ( using Z12 ) until they had a falling-out.

However, because Alaska, Hawaii and United States territories have their own 2-letter ICAO prefix, the situation there is similar to other smaller countries and the ICAO code of their airports is typically different from its corresponding 3-letter FAA / IATA identifier.

He was also the last serving Australian politician to be a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, entitling him to the prefix " The Right Honourable ".

In the United Kingdom, toll-free telephone numbers are generally known as " freephone " numbers ( British Telecom numbers are officially Freefone ) and begin with the prefixes 0800, 0808 or the Cable & Wireless Freecall prefix 0500.

In the United Kingdom the prefix 0870 system is used by UK-based free conference calling providers in order to receive a rebate from every call from telephone company that owns the number.