Johnson, in the face of the national mania over new railroad construction, and in response to the need in his own district for additional mode of transportation, found himself moderating in his opposition to them.

Many 19th century national proposals to build a transcontinental railroad failed because of the energy consumed by political disputes over slavery.

Landis received national attention in 1907 when he fined Standard Oil of Indiana more than $ 29 million for violating federal laws forbidding rebates on railroad freight tariffs.

During the 1870s and 1890s, Puerto Rico did not have a national railroad system, but the city of Mayagüez did have a small passenger rail system for transporting its residents mainly along the Mendez Vigo Avenue.

At the time, national governments lacked the cash resources needed to fund projects on the scale of a transcontinental railroad.

Transport in Sudan during the early 1990s included an extensive railroad system that served the more important populated areas except in the far south, a meager road network ( very little of which consisted of all-weather roads ), a natural inland waterway — the Nile River and its tributaries — and a national airline that provided both international and domestic service.

In April 1921, speaking before a special joint session of Congress which he had called, Harding argued for peacemaking with Germany and Austria, emergency tariffs, new immigration laws, regulation of radio and trans cable communications, retrenchment in government, tax reduction, repeal of wartime excess profits tax, reduction of railroad rates, promotion of agricultural interests, a national budget system, an enlarged merchant marine and a department of public welfare.

The railroad brotherhoods threatened in summer 1916 to shut down the national transportation system.

In 1916, under threat of a national railroad strike, he approved legislation that increased wages and cut working hours of railroad employees ; there was no strike .< ref >

On November 10, 1917, three days after the Soviet seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped the uprising's leaders, Lenin and Trotsky, from the government.

On October 29, 1917 ( Julian calendar ), immediately after the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and Leon Trotsky from the government.

A deep national economic depression following the Panic of 1873 led to major Democratic gains in the North, the collapse of many railroad schemes in the South, and a growing sense of frustration in the North.

The first year of operation of the railroad coincided with the beginnings of a deep national economic decline.

By the early 1900s, L ' Enfant's vision of a grand national capital had become marred by slums and randomly placed buildings, including a railroad station on the National Mall.

This platform included abolition of national banks, low interest government loans, free and unlimited coinage of silver, reclamation of excess railroad lands by the government, a graduated income tax, and direct election of United States senators.

The railroad connected the region to the national economy, ending its previous isolation, and ensured the future success of the area.

After the Civil War, Oxford emerged from its " long slumber " to nearly 100 years of a new prosperity signaled by completion of the railroad in 1871 and improved methods of canning and packing which opened national markets for oysters from the Chesapeake Bay's bountiful beds.

Located at the historic junction of the Great Northern Railway and the Soo Line Railroad, Erskine formerly appeared prominently on many national railroad maps and atlases which omitted much larger cities and towns in the vicinity.

The railroad opened national markets to the paper mill, allowing its business to expand beyond a narrow regional scope.

" In July, 1877, almost immediately succeeding the peaceful enjoyments incident to the centennial celebration of our national independence, the country was startled at the outbreak of very serious rioting by the railroad employees of Pittsburgh.

The railroad not only facilitated passenger travel to and from Wenatchee, but provided the opportunity for freight shipments of wheat, apples and other products to national markets.

Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

Some ANACs are very regional or local in scope, while others are state -/ province-or area-code-wide: there appears to be no consistent national system for them.

Regarding institutional reforms, the party was a long-time supporter of presidentialism and a plurality voting system, and came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party were tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity.

Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

The idea was to optimize the system of national defense, to legalize one politics of sustainable defense and to integrate the three Forces, rationalizing their activities.

In addition, the Bundestag has a minimum threshold of either 5 % of the national party vote or three ( directly elected ) constituency representatives for a party to gain additional representation through the system of proportional representation.

Currently, three schools exist in Barcelonnette: a public nursery school, a public elementary school, and a private school ( under a contract by which the teachers are paid by the national education system ).

This system would be implemented into the national response plan for bioweapons attacks in the Netherlands.

After the Congressional hearings in early 2005, and with the scrutiny of the sports and national media upon this issue, Selig put forth a proposal for a stricter performance-enhancing drug testing regime to replace the current system.

Europe, which also has a large biotechnology sector and an impressive education system, has encountered trouble in creating uniform standards as the European community attempts to supplant some of the national jurisdictional barriers that still exist.

Canada's system, described below, avoids regional variability of federal law by giving national jurisdiction to both layers of appellate courts.

Among many achievements, Henry institutionalized common law by creating a unified system of law " common " to the country through incorporating and elevating local custom to the national, ending local control and peculiarities, eliminating arbitrary remedies and reinstating a jury system – citizens sworn on oath to investigate reliable criminal accusations and civil claims.

A social-market economy is a nominally free-market system where government intervention in price formation is kept to a minimum but the state provides significant services in the area of social security, unemployment benefits and recognition of labor rights through national collective bargaining arrangements.

There is no possibility for the national judicial system to investigate these cases.

For many decades thereafter, historians derided the Parliamentary Republic as a quarrel-prone system that merely distributed spoils and clung to its laissez-faire policy while national problems mounted.

The privatized national pension system ( AFP ) has encouraged domestic investment and contributed to an estimated total domestic savings rate of approximately 21 % of GDP.

The extensive Chilean protected areas system includes 32 national parks, 48 natural reserves and 15 natural monuments.

The country is noted for its national park system, administered by SINAC ( Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion, or " National System of Conservation Areas ").

Croatia has a three-tiered, independent judicial system governed by the Constitution of Croatia and national legislation enacted by the Sabor.

The International Monetary Fund uses a variant system when referring to national currencies.

We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world — a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system.

Currently, there is no system in place that awards only one state or national title.

The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act created a federal system, in which power is divided between the federal, or national, government and the States — the evolved status of the colonies.