Adventists believe God will grant eternal life to the redeemed who are resurrected at Jesus ' second coming.

In a second effort at compromise, Trumbull presented for Johnson's signature the first Civil Rights Bill, which sought to grant citizenship to the freedmen.

If the author wished, he could apply for a second 14 ‑ year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

South Australia granted restricted women's suffrage in 1861, and in 1895 became the second place in the world to grant universal suffrage ( after New Zealand ), and the first where women had the dual rights to vote and to stand for election.

First, because the Constitution does not grant Congress any power to regulate or criminalize obscenity, and second, because the First Amendment guarantees the right of free speech.

The Visigoths ' second great king, Euric, unified the various quarreling factions among the Visigoths and, in 475, forced the Roman government to grant them full independence.

Sullivan's scholarship was extended to a second year, and in 1858 in what the biographer Arthur Jacobs calls an " extraordinary gesture of confidence " the scholarship committee extended his grant for a third year so that he could study in Germany, at the Leipzig Conservatoire.

In 2007, NCSA was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to build " Blue Waters ", a supercomputer capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop.

“ The amount of grant in the domestic element would be calculated as sufficient to subsidise domestic ratepayers to the extent of a fivepenny rate in the first year, tenpence in the second, and so on.

In 1906, Finland became the second country in the world, and the first in Europe, to grant universal suffrage to its citizens.

There was a second royal grant from William in 1698.

On 17 May 1948, on the third day of Israel's independence, the Soviet Union granted de jure recognition to the State of Israel, becoming only the second country to recognise Israel ( preceded only by the United States ' de facto recognition ) and the first country to grant Israel de jure recognition.

If the French crown was to bestow or grant new lands to nobles, Philip declared, they would usually be given only from the second source: this was a double-edged announcement, at once reinforcing the core, unalienable powers of the crown, whilst also reassuring nobles that their lands were sacrosanct unless they were forfeited to the crown in punishment for a crime or misdemeanour.

As of March 8, 2012, the foundation was second in terms of assets and sixth in terms of annual grant giving.

They helped people avoid the perils of the afterlife and also aided their existence, containing spells to assure " not dying a second time in the underworld ", and to " grant memory always " to a person.

On November 28, 1806, a second charter was passed in the legislature to grant fines of $ 20 ( 1806 dollars ) for evading tolls or defacing property along the turnpike.

He also received a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Rockefeller grant, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, all of which helped him write his second novel.

Black students were admitted immediately after the college's 1844 founding, and the College became the second school in the nation to grant four-year liberal arts degrees to women.

Leichhardt's second expedition, undertaken with a government grant and substantial private subscriptions, started in December 1846.

Koch consistently demonstrated a fierce love for New York City, which some observers felt he carried to extremes on occasion: In 1984 he had gone on record as opposing the creation of a second telephone area code for the city, claiming that this would divide the city's population ; and when the National Football League's New York Giants won Super Bowl XXI in January 1987, he refused to grant a permit for the team to hold their traditional victory parade in the city, quipping famously, " If they want a parade, let them parade in front of the oil drums in Moonachie " ( the latter being a town in New Jersey adjacent to East Rutherford, site of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, where the Giants play their home games ).

In January 2009, Bill Gates announced a second challenge grant of $ 255 million.

At the time of the second challenge grant, Bill Gates said:

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

A split second later, the distant crack of a rifle had sounded.

He had received both first and second anonymous notices, and each time he had accused his neighbors of writing them.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Peter Marshall noted that Bang-Jensen had later referred to his two interviews with the Gross group as `` unfortunate experiences '', and after his second meeting on the sixteenth the Dane refused to attend further hearings without legal counsel.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.

He had accordingly cultivated eccentricity to the point of second nature.

In the spring of his second year at Harvard, Tom had been offered a job at Northwestern University as an instructor in the English Department.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

It was evident that a second transfer had to be effected, and that it had to take place between the time the fille finished the doctor's room and the time she began Alex's.

This second chain bridge was 570 feet long, had two thirty-foot towers and a draw, and a double roadway.

She always let it be known that there was wine in the pot roast or that the chicken had been marinated in brandy, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate of theirs.

When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.

He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.