Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.

How did it happen, for example, that the state university, that great symbol of American democracy, failed to flourish in New England as it did in other parts of the country??

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

He writes that the Cretan-seer Epimenides, purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state.

This causes the iron crystals to deform intrinsically when the crystal structure tries to change to its low temperature state, inducing great hardness.

Altogether, the boule was responsible for a great portion of the administration of the state, but was granted relatively little latitude for initiative ; the boule's control over policy was executed in its probouleutic, rather than its executive function ; in the former, it prepared measures for deliberation by the assembly, in the latter, it merely executed the wishes of the assembly.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

With the lack of international competition, representative matches between state teams were regarded with great importance.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Some buses that undergo preservation are rescued from a state of great disrepair, but others enter preservation with very little wrong with them.

Bahá ' í teachings state that God is too great for humans to fully comprehend, or to create a complete and accurate image of, by themselves.

This period was characterized by a gradual decentralization of the state that had existed during the Qin and Han dynasties, and an increase in the power of great families.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Almost all metal exists in a polycrystalline state ; amorphous or single-crystal metals must be produced synthetically, often with great difficulty.

The Annals of Clonmacnoise state that " the Scottish men compelled to return without any great victory ", while Henry of Huntingdon claims that the English faced no opposition.

Euphoria is an emotional and mental state defined as a sense of great elation and well being.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, hell, the return of Jesus, the resurrection of the dead, for several evangelical denominations, a rapture, a great tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth ( the World to Come ), and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

Thermodynamic entropy is a non-conserved state function that is of great importance in the sciences of physics and chemistry.

Seiwa's mother was the daughter of Fujiwara no Yoshifusa ( 藤原良房 ), who was regent and great minister of the council of state.

In the great majority of its compounds, Gd adopts the oxidation state + 3.

Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state " I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice.

The great majority were farmers, typically in a state of serfdom under the control of nobles and monasteries.

Like other developing nations in the 1950s and ' 60s, Malaya ( and later Malaysia ) placed great stress on state planning, although UMNO was never a socialist party.

The young Texas pianist can make great chords ring out as well as anyone, so last night the massive sonorities of this challenging concerto were no hazard to him.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

* 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

* Texas was in union with the Mexican state of Coahuila as Coahuila y Tejas, with the capital in distant Saltillo, and thus the affairs of Texas were decided at a great distance from the province and in the Spanish language.

* January 10 – In the first great Texas gusher, oil is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

His acceptance by the Southerners was also helped a great deal when Humphrey became a protege of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas.

The Texas longhorns show great variation in coat color

In recent years the Texas League has witnessed a great deal of change.

The outcome of the fight triggered race riots that evening — the Fourth of July — all across the United States, from Texas and Colorado to New York and Washington, D. C. Johnson's victory over Jeffries had dashed white dreams of finding a " great white hope " to defeat him.

Shortly after his enrollment in the University of Texas, Whitman met and courted a fellow student named Kathleen Frances Leissner ; a teaching student two years his junior to whom he had been introduced by Francis Schuck, Jr. Leissner was Whitman's first serious girlfriend, and he reportedly went to great lengths to both attract and keep her attentions.

The Texas State Fair had introduced the fried Twinkie to great popular acclaim, and the notion spread to other state fairs across the U. S., as well as some establishments that specialize in fried foods.

The great cattle drives of the 1880s often passed by Wibaux on their way from Texas to the northern ranges.

Because of its gradual upward climb, this great canyon was easily traversed and, therefore served as a popular entry to, and exit from, the vast Staked Plains ( Llano Estacado ) of West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.

La Grulla is a city in Starr County, Texas, United States, founded by Juan Santiago Longoria ( 5th great grandfather of actress Eva Longoria ) in 1836.

However, Hank also shows deference to Jimmy Carter when they meet ( though he later expresses his opinion that he was a weak president ) and greatly respects former Democratic Texas Governor Ann Richards ( although he displays great respect for, and deference to, all authority figures, but the respect was most likely the result of Hank's great liking of Texas culture and history as mentioned throughout the show ).

Also in 1986, he headlined to great success a gala ball for 4, 000 celebrating the grand opening of one of the top hotels in the US at the time, the Dallas-based Rosewood Hotel Co .' s Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, Texas.

Feeding and nesting ecology of the great kiskadee, Pitangus sulphuratus texanus ( Passeriformes: Tyrannidae ) in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.

* In Texas, the area in the southeastern portion of the state is often called the Golden Triangle for its great economic wealth in the petroleum, natural gas and chemical industry.