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It is admitted by the honourable gentleman and his supporters, that if Denmark had evidenced any hostility towards this country, then we should have been justified in measures of retaliation ... Denmark coerced into hostility stands in the same position as Denmark voluntarily hostile, when the law of self-preservation comes into play ... Does anyone believe that Buonaparte will be restrained by any considerations of justice from acting towards Denmark as he has done towards other countries ?... England, according to that law of self-preservation which is a fundamental principle of the law of nations, is justified in securing, and therefore enforcing, from Denmark a neutrality which France would by compulsion have converted into an active hostility.
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`` There is not now, nor has there ever been in Emory University's charter or by-laws any requirement that students be admitted or rejected on the basis of race, color or creed.
It should be admitted, too, that there is a good percentage of lapsed or nonchurchgoing Catholics ( one paper writes 50 per cent ).
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* 1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U. S. state.
Like an abbot, after being confirmed in her office by the Holy See, an abbess is solemnly admitted to her office by a formal blessing, conferred by the bishop in whose territory the monastery is located, or by an abbot or another bishop with appropriate permission.
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That he admitted students of different classes as disciples is a clear demonstration that he fought against the feudal structures that defined pre-imperial Chinese society.
* 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U. S. state.
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since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.
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But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
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As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.
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Even where there can be no doubt as to whose side the author is on, the antagonists are usually not depicted as villains but as honourable on their own terms.
Your assertion that I have only come to blindly excommunicate is shameless, and your offer to give me an honourable reception if I should have come exactly in the way the emperor wanted me to is contemptuous.
His Grand Vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, a Serbian devsirme from what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, controlled much of state affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty ( 17 February 1568 ) with the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian II, whereby the Emperor agreed to pay an annual " present " of 30, 000 ducats and essentially granted the Ottomans authority in Moldavia and Walachia.
The word " wuxia " is a compound word composed of the words wu ( 武 ), which means " martial ", " military ", or " armed ", and xia ( 俠 ), meaning " honourable ", " chivalrous ", or " hero ".
He is banished to Elba, an island in the Mediterranean with a small army of 1, 000 — Ney ( O ' Herlihy ) calls it an honourable exile.
: “ You will find Jardine a most conscientious, honourable, and kind-hearted fellow, extremely liberal and an excellent man of business in this market, where his knowledge and experience in the opium trade and in most articles of export is highly valuable.
In a speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society on 17 August 1876, Gladstone said that " I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion ,— if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves.
On 11 December 1891 Gladstone said that: " It is a lamentable fact if, in the midst of our civilisation, and at the close of the nineteenth century, the workhouse is all that can be offered to the industrious labourer at the end of a long and honourable life.
From 1988 he is an honourable member of the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia ( DMFA ).
According to Mark 15: 43, Joseph was an " honourable counsellor ( bouleutēs ), who waited ( or " was searching ") for the kingdom of God " ( this use of counsellor is generally associated with the Sanhedrin ).
The first of each pair is derived from Old English and the second is of Anglo-Norman origin: pig / pork, chicken / poultry, calf / veal, cow / beef, wood / forest, sheep / mutton, house / mansion, worthy / honourable, bold / courageous, freedom / liberty.
After the victory, Brutus ' body is brought to Antonius ' camp, where he cast his purple paludamentum over his dead body and orders an honourable funeral for his erstwhile comrade.
White, who rejects egalitarianism, wrote: " Men are equal before God and the laws, but unequal in all else ; hierarchy is the order of nature, and privilege is the reward of honourable service ".
Originally, the film was to end as Taymor's 1994 production had, with the implication that Lucius is going to kill Aaron's baby, but during production of the film, actor Angus Macfadyen, who played Lucius, convinced Taymor that Lucius was an honourable man and wouldn't go back on his word.
Boromir is portrayed as an honourable and noble character who believes passionately in the greatness of his kingdom, who would have defended its people to the last.
In 1992 a number of MPs registered an official complaint about this practice, with some commenting that it " has undoubtedly been retained to deter honourable Members from raising points of order during divisions by making them appear ridiculous and feel acutely embarrassed ".< Ref > Early day motion 1623 In 1998 it was recommended that the opera hat be abandoned, since " although some Members may feel that they look particularly fetching in it, it makes the House of Commons look ridiculous when someone wearing the hat is trying to raise a point of order from a seated position while everyone else is milling around and going to vote.
In Marc Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, he says, " For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all ; all honourable men.
Only Cú Chulainn is brave and honourable enough to submit himself to the churl's axe, so he is declared champion.
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