The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.

Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.

The Battle of Largs ( October 1263 ) proved indecisive, but even so, Haakon's position was hopeless.

These proved crucial in 1813 and 1814, when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's army besieged the city in the Napoleonic Wars, only taking it when they used a bridge of ships across the Adour to position artillery around the city.

This has been proved with respect to North America from the position and distribution of the first beds of the Silurian-those of the Potsdam epoch-and this will probably prove to the case in Primordial time with the other continents also ".

This nontenured position proved to be the only academic appointment Peirce ever held.

The combination of architectural innovations proved superior to competitors and the " 11 " architecture was soon the industry leader, propelling DEC back to a strong market position.

Kumar writes: " EPR argued that they had proved that ... B can have simultaneously exact values of position and momentum.

Prediction of decline and other position effects has proved challenging, although they have been often identified in data gathered for the purpose of observing other effects.

Singer's position proved correct: the fires had little impact beyond the Gulf region.

A truce between the war-weary sides was established for three years ( 1213 – 1215 ) and proved generally more favourable to the Germans, who consolidated their political position, while the Estonians were unable to develop their system of loose alliances into a centralised state.

Their publishing company, Watch Tower, and official position magazine, The Watchtower, have asserted: " Ever since The Watchtower began to be published in July 1879 it has looked ahead into the future ... No, The Watchtower is no inspired prophet, but it follows and explains a Book of prophecy the predictions in which have proved to be unerring and unfailing till now.

Himmler worsened his own position when he attempted to hold a military command during the last months of the war and proved totally incompetent as a field commander.

However, Chiang's successor as president, Lee Teng-hui, proved to be more adept at politics than she was, and consolidated his position.

This position of dominance was short-lived, as Wiglaf returned and restored Mercian independence in 830, but the expansion of Wessex across south-eastern England proved permanent.

As cruel a sentence as this was, it proved most effective as it triggered such obedience of his subjects that from that point on there was no mention of any challenge of his position whatsoever.

A child of Mortimer's with royal blood would have proved both politically inconvenient for Isabella, and challenging to Edward's own position.

At the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans, Stéphane Sarrazin secured pole position but the 908s proved unreliable and ceded victory to Audi.

The position south of the Albert-Bapaume road proved to be much more favourable to the advancing British, where they had achieved success.

The problem with type B is that it relies on the program being able to decide which moves are good enough to be worthy of consideration (' plausible ') in any given position and this proved to be a much harder problem to solve than speeding up type A searches with superior hardware and search extension techniques.

The position proved difficult ; a long-distance joint-ownership agreement gave the Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskás control over the San Francisco section of the squad, while Robson took care of the Vancouver squad.

Radcliffe's will, however, proved on 8 December 1714, clearly showed his intention that the library be built in the position it now occupies, stating:

This risky political strategy proved initially successful, consolidating internal support for the regime and greatly strengthening Germany's strategic position.

The proposed scheme by Bishops supported by John Norman, Cecil Clutton and Patrick Moule favoured returning the organ to its Gray & Davison past but including a ' Chair ' section instead of the Choir in order to try to overcome the difficulties of the position of the organ was bold but hardly in keeping historically and proved a to be musically and mechanically a disaster and increasingly unreliable so that after no more than twenty years it was necessary for the Organ to be rebuilt again in 2003 / 04 by Kenneth Tickell, so thoroughly as to make it effectively a new instrument in the old case.

Experience has proved that no position is more false than this.

Contrary to usual organization-position evaluations, the position to which research-staff members report administratively will not necessarily encompass the duties of the research-staff member, therefore, are not necessarily evaluated as highly.

In these situations, arbitrageurs may receive margin calls, after which they would most likely be forced to liquidate part of the position at a highly unfavorable moment and suffer a loss.

Yet in its position statement, the IDF writes that " there is no overwhelming evidence to prefer one species of insulin over another " and " highly purified animal insulins remain a perfectly acceptable alternative.

Ironically, one of the stronger arguments against this position came from an individual highly respected by their theological quarter, Bliss Knapp, who claimed that Eddy understood through her lawyer that these consent clauses would not hinder normal operation after her decease.

A concubine's treatment and situation were highly variable, influenced by the social status of the male to whom she was engaged, as well as the attitude of the wife ; the position of the concubine was generally inferior to that of the wife.

In Japan's history, social strata based on inherited position rather than personal merits, was rigid and highly formalized.

Nonetheless, first ladies have held a highly visible position in U. S. government.

Not only is Kurtz's position at the Inner Station a highly envied position, but sentiment seems to be that Kurtz is not deserving of it, as Kurtz only received the appointment by his connections back in Europe.

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

The imposition of the British blockade had made the Reich highly dependent upon Soviet economic support, which placed Stalin in a strong negotiating position with Ribbentrop.

The Lebanese Special Forces are the elite of the Lebanese army, those who enroll are subjected to rigorous training regimes and must be in peak physical and mental condition prior to their ascension to such a highly desired position.

He became one of Quebec's leading lawyers and was so highly regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Hungary's János Kádár was highly supportive of Dubček's appointment in January, but Leonid Brezhnev and others grew concerned about Dubček's reforms, which they feared might weaken the position of the Communist Bloc during the Cold War.

Hand position is highly important, the superior's hand must be higher than the inferior's.

The early parts of each race will often be highly tactical with riders pedaling slowly, as they carefully jockey for position, often trying to force their opponents up high on the track in an attempt to get their rivals to make the first move.

His position as curator of the museum gave him enough visibility to become highly influential on Danish archaeology.

However, not only does the 6 – 2 require a team to possess two people capable of performing the highly specialized role of setter, it also requires both of those players to be effective offensive hitters when not in the setter position.

The position and arrangement of the germ layers are highly species-specific, however, depending on the type of embryo produced.

The contemporary Georgian chronicles enshrined Christian morality and patristic literature continued to flourish, but it had, by that time, lost its earlier dominant position to secular literature, which was highly original, even though it developed in close contact with the neighboring cultures.

There is however no evidence to support this, and their high position in the imperial bureaucracy of the time renders any openly iconodule position highly unlikely.

Contrary to its intended purpose of strengthening the position of the King against the revolutionaries, the Brunswick Manifesto had the opposite effect of greatly undermining Louis's already highly tenuous position in Paris.

" Due to the highly demanding and significant position of both his parents, there appeared to be very little time in which a bond was able to be established between parents and children.