The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

Some of the oldest, most persistent, and most cohesive forms of social groupings have grown out of religion.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

Mach's influence is most apparent in the logical positivists ' persistent concern with metaphysics, the unity of science, and the interpretation of the theoretical terms of science, as well as the doctrines of reductionism and phenomenalism, later abandoned by many positivists.

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.

Red – black trees are also particularly valuable in functional programming, where they are one of the most common persistent data structures, used to construct associative arrays and sets which can retain previous versions after mutations.

Unlike many other historic baseball match-ups in which one team remains dominant for most of their history, the Dodgers – Giants rivalry has exhibited a persistent balance in the respective successes of the two teams.

One of the most persistent myths about Sparta that has no basis in fact is the notion that Spartan mothers were without feelings toward their off-spring and helped enforce a militaristic lifestyle on their sons and husbands.

According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

Transactional interactions are most effectively handled by transactional systems that manage state and commit records for persistent storage.

Apart from the UK, Austria proved the most persistent enemy of France, more than a million Austrians served in total.

According to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 9 of the 12 most dangerous and persistent organic chemicals are pesticides.

The prevalence hypothesis proposes that the disease is due to a pathogen more common in regions of high MS prevalence where in most individuals it causes an asymptomatic persistent infection.

Thus, insomnia is most often thought of as both a sign and a symptom that can accompany several sleep, medical, and psychiatric disorders characterized by a persistent difficulty falling asleep and / or staying asleep or sleep of poor quality.

Among the most persistent controversies surrounding Falun Gong is its characterization by the PRC government as " xiejiao "— a " heterodox organization ", " evil religion ", or " evil cult ".

When Britain gained formal control over what is now Guyana in 1814, it also became involved in one of Latin America's most persistent border disputes.

In all cases Chagall's " most persistent subject is life itself, in its simplicity or its hidden complexity ...

In a parallel line of inquiry, Lenkiewicz also investigated some of society's most persistent taboos in Projects such as Jealousy ( 1977 ), Orgasm ( 1978 ), Suicide ( 1980 ) and Sexual Behaviour ( 1983 ).

One of Laird's most active initiatives was his persistent effort to secure the release of the American captives held by the enemy in Vietnam.

Reports of gang-related homicides are concentrated mostly in the largest cities in the United States, where there are long-standing and persistent gang problems and a greater number of documented gang members — most of whom are identified by law enforcement.

GameDaily also included him in their most persistent video game villains list.

The most persistent demand Nike hears from the workers is for an expansion of the factories so that their relatives can be offered a job as well.

Ohio Governor William Dennison was the most persistent, so McClellan was commissioned a major general of volunteers and took command of the Ohio militia on April 23, 1861.

Of all their worldly belongings, next to the oxen and his gun, the seed grain had been the most treasured.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

Thus human perception and human volition is the immanent cause of all social change and this most truly when the change reaches the civilizational level.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.

Of all the Whig tracts written in support of the Succession, The Crisis is perhaps the most significant.

For him Mercer produced the lyric to `` Out Of Breath Scared To Death Of You '', introduced in that most successful of all the Gaieties, by Sterling Holloway.

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

`` The argument that is cutting most ice is that Hearst is the only candidate who is fighting the trusts fearlessly and who would use all the powers of government to disrupt them if he were elected.

It is most important that we recognize the law of love as being unbreakable in all personal relationships, whether individually, socially or as between whole nations of people.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

And a minister of all men is most conscious that he is mere man -- prone to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported originals -- A Taste Of Honey, by Britain's young ( 19 when she wrote it ) Shelagh Delaney ; ;

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

In entering this union we will be surrendering most, if not all, of our economic autonomy to international bodies such as the Atlantic Institute ( recently set up ) or the O.E.C.D., I.M.F. and others.

Of all the places in Poland, Andrei hated Lublin the most.

Pausing in the doorway he said: `` The form of the human female, unlike her mind and her spirit, is the most challenging loveliness in all nature ''.

That first entry there is the Vermont Flumenophobe, the earliest and one of the most successful of my eighty-three varieties -- great big scapulars and hardly any primaries at all.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.