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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.

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All Halloween customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries ".
Ice hockey also evolved during this period as a derivative of field hockey adapted to the icy conditions of Canada and the northern United States.
The M16 ( officially Rifle, Caliber 5. 56 mm, M16 ) is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle adapted for semi-automatic, three-round burst and full-automatic fire.
In 1959 the joint Soviet-Finnish film production Sampo ( titled The Day the Earth Froze when released in the United States ) adapted the Kalevala to the big screen.
All Hallowe ' en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those of other countries ".
The FIM-92 Stinger is a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile ( SAM ), which can be adapted to fire from ground vehicles and helicopters ( as an AAM ), developed in the United States and entered into service in 1981.
United States Patent Office, Patent # 814993, Patent Application July 26, 1904 Serial # 218, 206, Patented March 13, 1906: FREEZING DEVICE-" freezing apparatus ... adapted for the making of ice cream.
Produced in the United Kingdom by Watergate Productions Ltd, the 1954 screenplay was adapted by Desmond Davis and directed by Guy Hamilton.
Under pressure to reduce defense spending, the United States Department of Defense ordered the Navy to determine if Matador could be adapted for their use.
Similarly, the books by the equally successful American author Erle Stanley Gardner ( 1889 – 1970 ), creator of the lawyer Perry Mason, which have frequently been adapted for film, radio, and TV, were only recently republished in the United Kingdom — books such as The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ( 1937 ), The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister ( 1953 ), etc.
His novel Benighted ( 1927 ) was adapted into the James Whale film The Old Dark House ( 1932 ); the novel has been published under the film's name in the United States.
In the United Kingdom, " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use " is defined as an offensive weapon under the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 thus potentially including a yawara stick.
* A Young People's History of the United States, adapted from the original text by Rebecca Stefoff ; illustrated and updated through 2006, with new introduction and afterword by Howard Zinn ; two volumes, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007.
By the strict definition at the beginning of this article however, the river dory is very much a dory adapted for use on the river rapids of the Western United States.
For example, in the United States, wetlands are defined as " those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
From its beginnings as Fort Crook in the late 19th century, Offutt has adapted to the defense needs of the United States.
Pleasence was the author of the 1977 children's book Scouse the Mouse ( London: New English Library ), which was animated by Canadian animator / film director Gerald Potterton ( a friend of the actor, who directed him in the 1973 Canadian film The Rainbow Boys, retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States ) and also adapted into a children's recording ( Polydor Records, 1977 ) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.
In 2007, The Tale of the Body Thief was rumored to be adapted into film as United Artists was interested in purchasing the film rights to the novel.
In the United Kingdom, " Any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing " is a Prohibited Weapon, under S. 5 of The Firearms Act 1968.
The stated mission of the vehicle is counter-terrorism for the United States Department of Homeland Security, but could be easily adapted for other uses ; medical response, emergency power and lighting, unlimited modularity.
Panel games are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they've found continued success since the BBC adapted its first radio panel shows from classic parlor games.
A. Neville Thiele in Australia, and later Richard H. Small ( who taught and did design work in Australia, England, and the United States ), first comprehensively adapted electronic filter theory to the design of loudspeaker enclosures, particularly at the low frequencies handled by woofers.
Some Reformed churches — notably the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) and the United Church of Christ — have published daily office books adapted from the ancient structure of morning and evening prayer in the Western church, usually revised for the purpose of inclusive language.
Then it was broadcast, with English-dubbed voices, in the United States and other English-speaking markets, beginning in September, 1966 ( it was first commissioned for U. S. development by NBC Enterprises adapted by Fred Ladd, for syndicated broadcast ).

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