Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

`` Molotov altogether rejects the line of peaceful coexistence, reducing this concept merely to the state of peace or rather, the absence of war at a given moment, and to a denial of the possibility of averting a world war.

The CDN has authority to " express an opinion in instances of declaration of war and the celebration of peace " and to " express an opinion on the decreeing of a state of emergency, state of siege, or federal intervention.

It also ranks high regionally in sustainability of the state, democratic development and state of peace.

One would think to listen to him that the Government had no responsibility for the state of world affairs ... The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace.

Every one of us has been passing through days of anxiety ; we cannot, however, feel that peace has been established, but that we have nothing but an armistice in a state of war.

" American political scientists John R. Oneal and Bruce M. Russett, well known for their work on the democratic peace theory, state:

He appears, however, to state that peace had lasted from the year of his birth to the time he was writing.

It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning ( for example, naming a state of war " peace ").

When we do not suffer pain, we are no longer in need of pleasure, and we enter a state of ' perfect mental peace ' ( ataraxia ).

Although the administration made progress on such issues as taking state responsibility for past human rights cases and supporting human rights in international fora, it failed to show significant advances on combating impunity in past human rights cases, military reforms, a fiscal pact to help finance peace implementation, and legislation to increase political participation.

The Rhineland-Westphalian state began a " typical German " festival, and started the tradition on the eve of September 2 with the ringing of bells, fireworks and patriotic songs for a peace festival.

This policy made sense not simply because the unhappy fates of several Emperors previous to this duo had made it clear that one man simply could not rule a state this size ; equally, a ' barbarian ' enemy suing for peace in this time tended to demand that they be allowed to apply to the ' chief ' or ' king ' of the victorious side.

The reconstituted Polish state had had only 20 years of relative stability and uneasy peace between the two wars.

Even though there are also reports of distressing experiences and negative life-reviews, which share some similarities with the concept of Hell, the positive experiences of meeting or entering ' the Light ' is reported as an immensely intense feeling state of love, peace and joy beyond human comprehension.

Kapodistrias negotiated with the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire the borders and the degree of independence of the Greek state and signed the peace treaty that ended the War of Independence with the Ottomans ; introduced the phoenix, the first modern Greek currency ; organised local administration ; and, in an effort to raise the living standards of the population, introduced the cultivation of the potato into Greece.

A meditative or contemplative state of being at peace with oneself and others is seen as Guanyin.

As a result, the women were able to achieve peace in Liberia after a 14-year civil war and later helped bring to power the country's first female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

The decade that followed has been marked by a cycle of violence and resumption of peace talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that sought to establish an independent Islamic state in Maguindanao.

After the Government of the German Reich and the Government of the U. S. S. R. have, by means of the treaty signed today, definitively settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in the region, they mutually express their conviction that it would serve the true interest of all peoples to put an end to the state of war existing at present between Germany on the one side and England and France on the other.

Nirvana is a state of ' ultimate ' peace.

A few minutes later the insurance man, a road checker, drove up in the gray coupe with license plates on it from a far-away state.

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.

May we state with confidence that in such an exhibition a republic will find its greatest security??

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Our state has been overrun with a gang of paid agents and retainers.

The Hearst press followed the Chief's progress at the various state conventions with its usual admiring attention, stressing the `` enthusiasm '' and `` loyalty '' he inspired.

One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.

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.

I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

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.

Coupling its own budget of $83,750 with a $30,000 state grant authorized by Gov. Vandiver, the group expects to sign a contract in March with Georgia Tech..

Why, then, with these voluntary barricades and some state laws barring liquor ads, is it necessary to seek congressional action??

This year's Senate measure would provide each state and the District of Columbia with $1,000,000 to be used in support of private, state, or municipal ETV efforts.

He says the state, in order to proceed with economic development, must develop an understanding of how the various parts of its economy fit together and dovetail into the national economy.

but he may well be doing his greatest service with his straightforward report on the state of the public schools.

in fact, with having been against all the more popular features of the Khrushchev `` welfare state ''.

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.

Unsuccessful efforts have been made to replace high mileage allowances with state automobiles.