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.

Surveyors in the United States use both international and survey feet, and consequently, both varieties of acre.

In 2001, Bt176 varieties were voluntarily withdrawn from the list of approved varieties by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) when it was found to have little or no Bt expression in the ears and was not found to be effective against second generation corn borers.

There were also two varieties of refiners ' carats once used in the United Kingdom — the pound carat and the ounce carat.

For example, in the United States, only one type of copper IUD is approved for use, while in the United Kingdom, over ten varieties are available.

Genetically modified varieties have met public resistance in the United States and in the European Union.

Some varieties can also tolerate marine climates and are cultivated as far north as Pembrokeshire in the British mainland and Washington in the United States.

North American English is a collective term for the dialects of the United States and Canada ; it does not include the varieties of Caribbean English spoken in the West Indies.

Local varieties of this dance are also found in the Nordic countries, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Latin America ( especially Mexico ), and in the United States.

Shallots and ten other onion ( Allium cepa L .) varieties commonly available in the United States were evaluated: Western Yellow, Northern Red, pungent yellow ( New York Bold ), Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Empire Sweet, Mexico, Texas 1015, Imperial Valley Sweet, and Vidalia.

In 2008, Subway began to offer all foot-long submarine sandwiches ( excluding premium and double-meat varieties ) for five dollars, in the continental United States and Canada, as a " limited time only " promotion.

" Similarly, he questioned whether the second principle means that anthropologists " approve the social caste system of India, the racial caste system of the United States, or many other varieties of social discrimination in the world ".

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the heatless varieties are commonly known simply as " peppers " ( or more specifically " green peppers ", " red peppers ", etc.

The last decades ' worldwide renewal may have profited from the huge reforestation efforts started in the 1930s in the United States to establish varieties of Castanea sativa which may be resistant to chestnut blight, as well as to relieve the strain on cereal supplies. Chestnut output in 2005

Officials in the federal government had long sought new and improved varieties of seeds, plants and animals for importation to the United States.

Frosted, glazed, powdered, Boston cream, coconut, sour cream, cinnamon, chocolate, and jelly are some of the varieties eaten in the United States and Canada.

Immigrants have brought various doughnut varieties to the United States.

There are estimated to be around 400 sausage varieties in the United Kingdom.

Open pollinated varieties of white sweet corn started to become widely available in the United States in the 19th century.

In the United Kingdom, poplar ( as with fellow energy crop willow ) is typically grown in a short rotation coppice system for two to five years ( with single or multiple stems ), then harvested and burned-the yield of some varieties can be as high as 12 oven dry tonnes every year

On higher ground, pine, oak, and many other tree varieties native to the southeastern United States thrive.

Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200, 000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries.