In his great Dictionary Johnson defined oats as, " a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

claimed that Aksai Chin had been part of the Indian Ladakh region for centuries, and that the border ( as defined by the Johnson Line ) was non-negotiable.

In his great Dictionary ( 1755 ) Johnson defined a Tory as " one who adheres to the ancient Constitution of the state and the apostolical hierarchy of the Church of England, opposed to a Whig.

However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

The Truman Doctrine was followed by the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Kennedy Doctrine, the Johnson Doctrine, the Nixon Doctrine, and the Carter Doctrine, all of which defined the foreign policy approaches of these respective U. S. presidents on some of the largest global challenges of their administrations.

Sullivan County's boundary with Carter County and Johnson County is defined as the ridgeline of Holston Mountain.

Johnson County's boundary with Sullivan County is defined as the ridgeline of Holston Mountain.

By this time, Johnson had become inextricably defined by Vietnam, and this demonstration of divided support within his party meant his reelection ( only four years after winning the highest percentage of the popular vote in modern history ) was unlikely.

In 1968, President Lyndon Johnson defined the PCT and the Appalachian Trail with the National Trails System Act.

Dr Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was " nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness.

On the other hand, Johnson also defined honour in relationship to " reputation " and " fame "; to " privileges of rank or birth ", and as " respect " of the kind which " places an individual socially and determines his right to precedence.

Additionally, in response to criticism that Kinsey ’ s original data was biased and not well defined, Gebhard and Johnson wrote The Kinsey Data: Marginal Tabulations of the 1938-1963 Interviews.

During its first 60 years, influential artists associated with the school included Eadweard Muybridge, photographer and pioneer of motion graphics ; Maynard Dixon, painter of San Francisco ’ s labor movement and of the landscape of the West ; Henry Kiyama, whose Four Immigrants Manga was the first graphic novel published in the U. S .; Sargent Claude Johnson, one of the first African-American artists from California to achieve a national reputation ; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, an innovative photographer whose work for Harper ’ s Bazaar in the 1930s defined a new American style of “ environmental ” fashion photography ; John Gutzon Borglum, the creator of the large-scale public sculpture known as Mt.

In defining the range of sexual problems Masters and Johnson defined a boundary between dysfunction and deviations.

Samuel Johnson defined a patron as " one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ".

Apart from referring to the lake itself or the region defined by the chamber of commerce, the name can refer to the Clear Lake City residential development, the Clear Lake area of Houston ( a Houston " superneighborhood " including Clear Lake City, Johnson Space Center, and surrounding areas ), the Clear Lake area of Pasadena, and other geographies as well.

John Passmore tells us that the term was first defined by the British logician William Ernest Johnson ( 1858-1931 ):

For example, if we write the names in Cyrillic and consider the Cyrillic ordering of letters, we might get a different result of evaluating " Smith < Johnson " than if we write the names in the standard Latin alphabet ; and if we write the names in Chinese characters, we cannot meaningfully evaluate " Smith < Johnson " at all, because no consistent ordering is defined for such characters.

The broadsword is defined as a " Long heavy double-edged sword held with two hands and used mainly during the Middle Ages ", and also " ‘ A cutting sword with a broad blade ’ ( Johnson )" ( cited from Oxford English Dictionary ( OED )).

Stoolball makes an appearance in the dictionary of Samuel Johnson, where it is defined as a game played by driving a ball from stool to stool.

" Johnson states that an associated amicus curiae brief by the National Academy of Sciences improperly " defined ' science ' in such a way that was impossible to dispute the claims of the scientific establishment " and a rule it proposed against " negative argumentation the possibility that science has not discovered how complex organisms could have developed.

Robert T. Pennock rebutted Johnson's belief that science was improperly defined within Edwards v. Aguillard, stating that the dual model of science established by Johnson ( either creationism, or evolution is correct and true, and by disproving any part of evolution, creationism ' wins ' by default ) is a false dilemma, a type of logical fallacy.

Continuous improvement is defined as the propensity of the organization to pursue incremental and innovative improvements in its processes, products, and services ( Dooley & Johnson, 2001 ).

Johnson Jones Hooper, whose character Simon Suggs bears a close kinship to Flem Snopes in both his willingness to take cruel advantage of all and sundry and the sharpness with which he habitually carried out his will ; ;

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

As a Jeffersonian and Jacksonian, Johnson refused to toe any party line throughout his political career – though he primarily ran as a Democrat, with the exception of his vice-presidency.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.

Johnson returned to Raleigh and moved with his mother, stepfather and brother to Greeneville, Tennessee.

Johnson initiated public debates by organizing a debating society with Blackston McDannel, a customer.

The constitution was submitted for a public vote and Johnson campaigned for its adoption ; his support of the new work provided him with additional positive statewide exposure.

In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.

In his first term in the state house, Johnson did not ally with either the Democrats or the Whigs consistently, though he revered Jackson, the Democratic President.

Johnson supported the Compromise of 1850 with the exception of its abolition of slavery in the nation's capital.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

Johnson attempted to make the most of the opportunities the position offered, using it as a springboard to higher honors, as the Governor's powers in the state were limited to offering mere suggestions on legislation ( with no veto power ), and managing the Bank of Tennessee and the penitentiary.

Johnson was surprisingly victorious, albeit with a narrower margin.

Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

Johnson decided not to seek a third term as Governor, with an eye towards election to the United States Senate.

Johnson continued to ingratiate himself with the North, the President-elect and his party, with his Unionist speeches in the Senate in early 1861: " I have an abiding confidence in the intelligence, the patriotism, and the integrity of the people, and I feel in my own heart that, if this subject could be got before them, they would settle the question and the Union of these States would be preserved.

" In fact, Lincoln ultimately looked to Johnson for considerable help with Tennessee's federal patronage decisions.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.