Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

Hurricanes develop in the southern part of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it.

Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part, and major hurricanes occasionally strike the coast which can be very destructive.

Relics of an abundant flora occur as inclusions trapped within the amber while the resin was yet fresh, suggesting relations with the flora of Eastern Asia and the southern part of North America.

If so, Alcuin's origins may lie in the southern part of what was formerly known as Deira.

Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.

He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula.

The sons were said to have become kings: Iocastus of the region in southern Italy as far as Rhegium ; Pheraemon and Androcles of the part of Sicily between the Strait of Messina and Lilybaeum ; Xuthus of Leontini ; Agathyrnus of what was known as Agathyrnitis, having founded Agathyrnum ; and Astyochus of Lipara.

Also vexatious were the Saxons, the name Roman writers gave to the peoples who lived in the northern part of what is now Germany and the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

AZ play their home games at the AFAS Stadion, located in the southern part of the city of Alkmaar.

The southern part, the Oberen Freie Ämter ( upper Freie Ämter ), were ruled by the previous seven cantons but Bern was added to make an eighth.

What remains of it today are the sacristy, added by Abbot Paniter in the 15th century, the southern transept, which features Scotland's largest lancet windows, part of the choir and presbytery, the southern half of the nave, parts of the western towers and the western doorway.

The southern volcanic part of the island is rugged and mountainous, and largely barren.

The southern part of Accrington, the township of New Accrington, was formerly in the Forest of Blackburnshire and the presence of oak trees may be inferred from local place names like Broad Oak and Oak Hill.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

The name was changed to " hospitable " after the Milesians had colonized the southern shoreline, the Pontus, making it part of Greek civilization.

A few Southern Interior valleys have short cold winters with infrequent heavy snow, while those in the Cariboo, the southern part of the Central Interior, are colder because of their altitude and latitude, but without the intensity or duration experienced at similar latitudes elsewhere in Canada.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county, forming the Chiltern Hills and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part.

The last county to be formed was County Wicklow in 1606-1607, taking in the southern part of Dublin ( with the exception of three " islands ," exclaves of ( mainly ) church property ), and the northern part of " Catherlough " or Carlow, including Arklow.

It is located in Summit Township in the southern part of the county.

* Kern County, California, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U. S. state of California

The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire.

In 1849, the districts of southern Ontario were abolished by the Province of Canada, and county governments took over certain municipal responsibilities.

This was previously thought to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent work has convinced those working in the field that Moray ( a name referring to a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray ), was the core of Fortriu.

Muzio's third son, Bosio ( 1411 – 1476 ), founded the branch of Santa Fiora, who held the title of count of Cotignola ; the Sforza ruled the small county of Santa Fiora in southern Tuscany until 1624.

In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

The southern portion of the county, of which Rockville was a part, was named Montgomery County.

The most populous and prosperous urban center in this new county was George Town, but its location at the far southern edge rendered it worthless as a seat of local government.

Frederick County is a county located in the western part of the U. S. state of Maryland, bordering the southern border of Pennsylvania and the northeastern border of Virginia.

Much of Baltimore County is suburban in character, straddling the border between the Piedmont plateau and, in the southern regions of the county, the Atlantic coastal plain.

Washington County is a county located in the western part of the US state of Maryland, bordering southern Pennsylvania to the north, northern Virginia to the south, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west.

Since then the southern part ( from Poughkeepsie south ) of the county has developed into a largely residential area, suburban in character, with many of its residents commuting to jobs in New York City.

Willard Mountain is a ski slope in southern part of the county.

Perthshire was known as the " big county " and had a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.

The southern part of the county is known as the Southtowns.

Clarence comprised the northern portion of Erie county, and Willink the southern part.

Part of the Tug Hill Plateau is in the southern part of the county.

The southern part of the county is Appalachian Plateau, with high hills rising at the southern edge of Syracuse.

Due to a boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey, the extent of many of the southern towns of the county was not established until the 19th century.

Much of the southern portion of the county lies within the Catskill Mountains.