The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.

And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Olgivanna -- in her country the nickname was a respectful form of address -- was not only attractive but shrewd, durable, sensible, and smart.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The result was that by secret agreement draft machinery was actually ready long before the country knew that the device was to take the place of the volunteering method which Theodore Roosevelt favored.

it was Baker who thought of lessening the shock, which conscription always brings to a country, by substituting `` Greetings from your neighbors '' for the recruiting sergeant, and registration in familiar voting places rather than at military installations.

Ultimately Fosdick's `` Fit to fight '' slogan swept across the country and every well-known red-light district in the United States was closed, a hundred and ten of them.

Currently, diplomatic relations, including diplomatic immunity, are governed internationally by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which has been ratified by almost every country in the world.

The main objective of this party was Eritrea freedom but they had a pre-condition that stated that before independence the country should be governed by Italy for at least 15 years ( like happened with Italian Somalia ).

From 1982 until 1996, the social democratic PSOE governed the country, with Felipe González as prime minister.

The country was governed for a period as a Republic, until the French Empire was declared by Napoleon Bonaparte.

The English governed Ireland in a like structure as they did themselves, by dividing the country into shires or counties in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.

Just after independence was achieved, Paraguay was governed from 1814 by the dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who closed the borders of the country and prohibited trade or any relation with the exterior until his death in 1840.

The architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until his death in 1976.

Politics in St. Lucia was once dominated by the United Workers ' Party ( UWP ), which, until 1997 had governed the country for all but three years since independence.

The Qur ' an is declared to be the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law ( Shari ' a ).

Although there was a brief public outcry regarding the high salary in comparison to the size of the country governed, the government's firm stance was that this raise was required to ensure the continued efficiency and corruption-free status of Singapore's " world-class " government.

* Unitary state, a political system where a country is governed as one single unit

The IBRD is governed by the World Bank's Board of Governors which meets annually and consists of one governor per member country ( most often the country's finance minister or treasury secretary ).

The IFC is governed by its Board of Governors which meets annually and consists of one governor per member country ( most often the country's finance minister or treasury secretary ).

The IDA is governed by the World Bank's Board of Governors which meets annually and consists of one governor per member country ( most often the country's finance minister or treasury secretary ).

The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots.

The inclusion of 30 crossbenchers was " a grand absurdity " because they would have been chosen " upon the very basis that they have no strong views of principle on the way in which the country ought to be governed ".

In an interview for the Sunday People the same month, he claimed the Conservative Party was " rejoining Enoch " on the European Community but repeated his warning of civil war as the consequence of immigration: " I still cannot forsee how a country can be peaceably governed in which the composition of the population is progressively going to change.

( For some years, the baron's council governed the country in the name of the Holy Crown ).

The Germans governed the occupied areas of Belgium through a General Governorate of Belgium, while a small area of the country remained unoccupied by the Germans.

Bhutan is the only country which has been independent throughout its history, never conquered, occupied, or governed by an outside power.

* In Germany, a red-green coalition of the Social Democratic Party and The Greens led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder governed the country from 1998 to 2005.

It met with significant opposition from the Pittite factions in Parliament that had governed the country for so long ( opposition was especially pronounced in the House of Lords ).

The city of Brčko has the status of a " district ", governed by the top-level country administration ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ).

In Edward's absence, the country was governed by a royal council, led by Robert Burnell.