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state and was
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.
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.
Much as he abhorred slavery, Lincoln was always willing to concede to each `` slave state '' the right to decide independently whether to continue or end it.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.
The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
and by the second night he was in a state of panic: he could see nothing out of the afflicted eye.
The market was not far and, once there, the doctor's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a state of harmony with the birds around him.
At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.
The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.
The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.
Using privately-owned vehicles was a personal hardship for such employees, and the matter of providing state transportation was felt perfectly justifiable.

state and confronted
For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.
This idea, while whimsical, is quite difficult to fathom when one is confronted with the fact that at various times in Russian history, the playing of the balalaika was banned because of its use by the skomorokhi, who were generally highly irritating to both church and state.
Clinton previously had been confronted with allegations of sexual misconduct during his time as Governor of Arkansas, including a civil lawsuit filed against Clinton by former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, alleging that he had sexually harassed her.
In Martin v. Hunter's Lessee ( 1816 ), the Supreme Court confronted the Chief Justice of Virginia, Spencer Roane, who had previously declared a Supreme Court decision unconstitutional and refused to permit the state courts to abide by it.
Putin has confronted several very influential oligarchs ( Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in particular ) who attained large stakes of state assets, allegedly through illegal schemes, during the privatization process.
In the suppression of the Southern Tang state by 976 AD, early Song naval forces confronted them on the Yangtze River in 975 AD.
This was one of the earliest films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness, an ' historically important Hollywood exposé of the grim conditions in state mental hospitals ' and de Havilland was lauded for her willingness to play a role that was completely devoid of glamor and that confronted such controversial subject matter.
Story then confronted the arguments that State Judges were bound to uphold the Constitution just as Federal judges were, and so denying state interpretations presumed that the State Judges would less than faithfully interpret the Constitution.
Strikers confronted by soldiers during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike | textile factory strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U. S. A., called when owners reduced wages, after a state law reduced the work week from 56 to 54 hours.
While he confronted General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in the eastern part of the state, Grant ordered Major General Franz Sigel's army of 10, 000 to secure the Valley and threaten Lee's flank, starting the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
While the French revolution could draw on a nation state, the democratic and liberal forces in Germany of 1848 were confronted with the need to build a nation state and a constitutional state at once, which overstrained them.
The conditions are both that the state is confronted to exceptional circumstances and that the regular institutions are disrupted and cannot effectively govern.
In 633 BCE, he confronted the rising power of the southern state of Chu which was then besieging Song.
However, construction lagged, and state bureaucrats were confronted with inadequate, leaky buildings and a soggy location.
In part, the large number of cases decided and the variety of issues confronted reflected the lack of discretion the Court had at the time in hearing appeals from lower federal and state courts.
The cannons of an organized state militia confronted two rebel armies, and thus Shays ' Rebellion failed — largely due to a miscommunication with a third general, who had unilaterally postponed the attack until the following day, but word never reached the other two armies.
However, empirical evidence is sparse as flow researchers are confronted with a basic problem: Up to now, there is no ideal possibility available to directly investigate causal consequences of flow experiences as it is difficult to manipulate such a specific state of consciousness in the laboratory.
Mark Goddard told authorities that he confronted Kupcinet about her altered state during the meal, and she began to cry, putting her arm around him.
Dissidence within the two countries became more dangerous for the Turks, who were now confronted with the attraction exercised on the population by the protection offered to them by a fellow Eastern Orthodox state.
Both films set out a " Mediterranean state of being " where " having left the security of land, the characters in both films are suddenly confronted with the precarious nature of human existence, as the films that depict them tackle the challenges of representing the submarine world.
On May 14, 1970, a group of student protesters against the Vietnam War, specifically the United States invasion of Cambodia, were confronted by city and state police.
Because of all these contacts the students were confronted with many opinions and views on the state of science and the world that would not normally have been part of their curriculum.

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