Supporters of concept of Westphalian sovereignty consider that the modern idea of territorial integrity began with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.

Democratic nominee James K. Polk ran on a platform that embraced American territorial expansionism, an idea soon to be referred to as Manifest Destiny.

These data support the idea that non-breeding birds combine adrenal and / or gonadal DHEA synthesis with neural DHEA metabolism to maintain territorial behavior when gonadal testosterone secretion is low.

The full and complete process of territorial consolidation behind natural borders ( the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and woodland and mountains separating the country from Norway ) reached a decisive point only in the 17th century with the treaty of Roskilde ( 1658 ); however, at the time, the idea of " natural borders " or even territorial continuity was not seen as essential to a state.

This idea, though, was taken up by Muslims and particularly by Hindus in the next seven years, and became a more territorial plan.

Mao discounts the idea of working with the British and the Americans because both of them were inherently imperialist nations and, thus, had territorial designs on China.

Thomas Chalmers led the way with a territorial mission in Edinburgh's West Port, which epitomised his idea of a ' godly commonwealth '.

Talks between the territorial governments to explore the idea of federation were held at the nearby Victoria Falls Hotel.

A pragmatist, Boganda spoke before the local assembly on 30 December 1957 in praise of the new Comité de Salut Economique, which envisioned joint administration of the economy between French colonials and MESAN territorial councilors ( he called it " the union of capital and Oubanguian labour "), but lack of French investment and opposition by Oubanguians soon led him to turn away from the idea.

In the 1830s, one peerage publisher, John Burke, hit on the idea of expanding his market and his readership by publishing a similar volume for people without titles, which was called A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, abbreviated as Burke's Commoners.

States, mostly based on the idea of nation, perceived the presence of ethnic or linguistic minorities as a danger for their own territorial integrity.

The idea of allotting nations EEZs to give better control of maritime affairs outside territorial limits gained acceptance in the late 20th century.

German historian Gregor Thum has written that the premise of the research concept of the Western Institute in the first decades was the idea of an eternal German-Polish antagonism and thus the Institute's research, like its German counterpart, the Ostforschung, was based on explicit political objectives, active support of the territorial claims of the state and the distribution of research results by popular science.

In 1963 the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines engaged in discussions on territorial disputes and the possibility of a Maphilindo Confederation, an idea launched by the Philippine president Diosdado Macapagal.

The idea of territorial incorporation is generally agreed to have arisen from Justice White's concurring decision noted above.

Greater Finland () was an irredentist and nationalist idea which emphasized territorial expansion of Finland in the context of pan-Fennicism.

The traditional approach is based on the idea that the territorial sovereignty of states must be respected.

Francesco SforzaThe idea of a radical renovation of liberties in the cities did not suit the powers of North Italy, who had been in league against the Visconti territorial gains in a decades-long series of wars interrupted by truces, most recently the Peace of Cremona of 20 November 1441.

Where others had postulated that physical separation could provide a barrier to interbreeding, allowing groups to evolve along different lines, Keith introduced the idea of cultural differences as providing a mental barrier, emphasising territorial behaviour, and the concept of the ' in-group ' and ' out-group '.

The idea was set to encounter heavy opposition from the Hungarian part of the Dual Monarchy, since a direct result of the reform would have been a significant territorial loss for Hungary.

Doty had supported this idea as early as 1824, and argued that the growing number of residents in Wisconsin were not adequately provided for by the territorial government in Detroit, which was hundreds of miles away from any settlement in Wisconsin.

This idea became common practice and was known as the " cannon shot rule " and was regarded as the internationally accepted measure of the width of the territorial sea.

In the East, religion was " a complete social order which affects all the activities in life " and " where the allegiance of people is divided on the basis of religion, the idea of territorial nationalism has never succeeded.

Dr. Bonnor supports the idea that the universe both expands and contracts, that in several billion years the expansion will slow up and reverse itself and that the contraction will set in.

Whatever other vicissitudes his views went through, he firmly retained his belief in the direct and inextricable connection between human liberty and expansion into space — for which reason he strongly cried out against any idea of space exploration being " a waste of money " or " unnecessary luxury ".

The central argument of the book is an expansion of the utilitarian idea that " the greatest good of the greatest number " is the only measure of good or ethical behaviour.

John Gast ( painter ) | John Gast, American Progress, ( circa 1872 ) celebrates United States | U. S. romantic nationalism in the form of westward expansion – an idea known as " Manifest Destiny ".

The leading idea of his diplomacy was that of religious and civil liberty for the protection and expansion of Protestantism.

Léon: The Professional is to some extent an expansion of an idea in Besson's earlier 1990 film, La Femme Nikita ( in some countries Nikita ).

It is based on the idea that the device nonlinearity can be modeled using a low-order polynomial, derived by means of Taylor series expansion.

The Whigs failed to unite behind the expansion of county representation ; some objected to the idea because they felt that it would give too much power to the aristocracy and gentry in rural areas.

The idea of an island as a part of China was unfathomable to the Han prior to the Qing frontier expansion effort of the 17th Century.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action, and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel "; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play – " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers "; possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

The 20th century would see a continued expansion of acceptable practice, leading to the formulation of ideas by which there existed a " sonata principle " or " sonata idea " that unified works of the type, even if they did not explicitly meet the demands of the normative description.

An early proponent of this idea was John Quincy Adams, a leading figure in U. S. expansion between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Polk administration in the 1840s.

The success of this concept — and its value to the Matchbox brand — was huge, leading to a rapid expansion of the idea, both in the numbers of models used ( and the introduction of models offering good " advertising space ", such as the # 38 Ford Model A Van, into the series ), and, again, in the size of the models ( Yesteryears, and also often Super Kings as well ).

With the rapid expansion of the farming population, Democrats looked to the west for new lands, an idea which became known as " Manifest Destiny.

In an opinion segment of New Scientist magazine published in August 2009, reporter Andy Coghlan cited William Rees of the University of British Columbia and epidemiologist Warren Hern of the University of Colorado at Boulder, saying that human beings, despite considering themselves civilized thinkers, are " subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion ... an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.

Overall, the idea of confederation under Britain was not popular in the Southern African states, which were still simmering from the last bout of British imperial expansion ( President Brand of the Orange Free State refused outright to even consider it ).

The idea was that the cosmological redshift might be showing evidence of periodicity which would be difficult to explain in a Hubble's Law universe that had the feature of continuous expansion.

Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends, or exposition-development-climax-denouement, with important inciting incidents, normally constructed into coherent plot lines ; a strong focus on temporality that includes retention of the past, attention to present action and protention / future anticipation ; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is " arguably the most important single component of the novel " ( David Lodge The Art of Fiction 67 ); a given hetergloss of different voices dialogically at play, " the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers " ( Lodge The Art of Fiction 97 ; see also the theory of Mikhail Bakhtin for expansion of this idea ); possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition " addresses " and " interacts with " reading audiences ( see Reader Response theory ); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, " arguing " for and against various positions ; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony ( see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea ); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc.

While largely described by contemporary Western observers as a front for the expansion of the Japanese army, the idea behind the Co-Prosperity Sphere was that Asia would be united against the Western powers and Western Imperialism under the auspices of the Japanese.