As the new clouds of radioactive fallout spread silently and invisibly around the earth, the Soviet Union stands guilty of a monstrous crime against the human race.

Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.

Disputes that had been confined to the Church of England could be dealt with legislatively in that realm, but as the Communion spread out into new nations and disparate cultures, such controversies multiplied and intensified.

It seems that Pope Gregory, ignorant of recent developments in the former Roman province, including the spread of the Pelagian heresy, had intended the new archiepiscopal sees for England to be established in London and York.

Midges will then spread the disease from the calves to other animals, starting a new season of infection.

Roots which spread out close to the surface, such as those of willows, can produce shoots and ultimately new plants.

If you come up with an innovation that serves, that resonates with customers, the Internet will allow that innovation to spread dramatically faster than any other technology has enabled a new innovation to be adopted in the history of mankind.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Nothing more was needed to ensure the rapid spread of the new association and Peter the hermit of Morone lived to see himself " Superior-General " to thirty-six monasteries and more than six hundred monks.

In early Christian Ireland the druidic tradition collapsed due to the spread of the new Christian faith.

The vines are spread on the surface of the sand of the new bed and pushed into the sand with a blunt disk.

As a new wave of smallpox hit the area and continued to spread, many residents fled to outlying rural settlements.

Various effects, both immediate and protracted, include the spread of virulent diseases, the establishment of unequal social relations, exploitation, enslavement, medical advances, the creation of new institutions, and technological progress.

With the second version, Valve instituted a policy of ' delayed bans ,' the theory being that if a new hack is developed which circumvents the VAC system, it will spread amongst the ' cheating ' community.

The occupation spread to other CUNY campuses, forcing the Board of Trustees to implement a ground-breaking new admissions policy.

This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, which resulted in the appearance of two similar dialects, Old West Norse ( Norway and Iceland ) and Old East Norse ( Denmark and Sweden ).

Particles can spread out by diffusion, but will not spontaneously re-order themselves ( absent changes to the system, assuming no creation of new chemical bonds, and absent external forces acting on the particle ).

Dijkstra would distribute photocopies of a new EWD among his colleagues ; as many recipients photocopied and forwarded their copy, the EWDs spread throughout the international computer science community.

However, the language experienced something of a renaissance in the 1970s and spread to new parts of the world, such as its veritable explosion in popularity in Iran in 1975.

From the mid-1980s the spread of videocassette recorders and the arrival of private TV channels such as RTL Television provided new competition for theatrical film distribution.

Scholars from the history of ideas have noticed that consultants play a part similar to that of the journeymen of the guild systems: they often travel a lot, work at many different companies and spread new practices and knowledge between companies and corporations.

The establishment of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, were to a large degree aided by the fact that, unlike earlier styles which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system, Georgian was also spread through the new medium of inexpensive suites of engravings.

This improves the gecko's ability to spread to new islands.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

In the advanced northwest, the Enlightenment gave a philosophical underpinning to the new outlook, and the continued spread of literacy, made possible by the printing press, created new secular forces in thought.

Members of higher and lower social status often cluster around this nucleus, so that Protestant figures on social class give the impression of spread over all social classes ; ;

It was regarded as a Protestant custom by the Roman Catholic majority along the lower Rhine, and was spread there only by Prussian officials who were moved there in the wake of the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Charles Wesley's hymns spread Methodist theology, not only within Methodism, but in most Protestant churches.

Additionally, the Statutes of Iona were promulgated in 1609 to force an end to the Clan warfare between the MacLeods of Dunvegan and the MacDonalds of Eigg and Sleat as well as to create a more receptive path for Reformation and Protestantism by forcing the Chiefs of the Clans to encourage its spread and to finance the provisioning of Protestant minsters in their lands.

The invention of the printing press in the 15th century played a major role in the rapid spread of the Protestant Reformation under leaders such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation spread throughout the Slovene Lands.

At that time the " mainline " Protestant denominations weakened sharply in both membership and influence while the most conservative religious denominations ( such as the Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans ) grew rapidly in numbers, spread across the United States, had grave internal theological battles and schisms, and became politically powerful.

On the face of it, the terms of these treaties seem innocuous enough, but Protestant missionaries would spread British influence ; and outlawing the slave trade would weaken Réunion's economy by depriving that island of slave laborers for France's sugar plantations.

The availability of the Bible in local ( vernacular ) languages was important to the spread of the Protestant movement and the development of the Reformed church in France, and the country had a long history of struggles with the papacy by the time the Protestant Reformation finally arrived.

Protestant views were spread by a large movement of " field sermons " or open-air sermons () held outside towns, and therefore out of the jurisdiction of the town authorities.

The Catholic League's presses and supporters continued to spread stories about atrocities committed against Catholic priests and the laity in Protestant England ( see Forty Martyrs of England and Wales ).

The event of the Protestant Reformation and the politics that ensued has been cited as the origins of German identity that arose in response to the spread of a common German language and literature.

By mid-century, in the tense atmosphere of wars of religion in Germany and France, both Protestant and Catholic authorities reasoned that only control of the press, including a catalog of prohibited works, coordinated by ecclesial and governmental authorities could prevent the spread of heresy.

Ever increasing literacy, spread in large part by the Protestant Reformation and its pressure to read and study the Bible in English, was well spread in England and even broader in Scotland.

He saw with delight the spread of this Protestant family order in Germany, Denmark, Russia and England.

Cardinal Albert of Brandenburg ( 1513 – 45 ), on account of his insecure position, as well as being crippled by a perpetual lack of funds, gave some occasion for the spread of Lutheranism in his diocese, although himself opposing the Protestant Reformation.

This circle of men spread the revival of evangelical Protestant Christianity across the continent of Europe ( Le Réveil ), impacting France, Germany ( Die Erweckung ) and the Netherlands ( Het Reveil ).

With the adoption of large-scale printing after the end of the era of incunabula ( or books printed prior to 1501 ), Italian Humanism spread northward to France, Germany, Holland and England, where it became associated with the Protestant Reformation.

In an effort to counter the growing power of Lutherans, Calvinists, and members of the Reformed Church of France, they formed a league to stop the spread of these Protestant factions.

Texts such as the Geneva Bible, printed in English, were widely distributed in Scotland in order to spread Protestant doctrine.

Then during the Age of Exploration and the Age of Imperialism, Western Europe spread the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant and Reformed Churches around the world, especially in the Americas.

Protestant denominations spread and multiplied, especially in the United States, as Denominational confessional statements began to be used more to exclude than to include Christians with different doctrinal convictions.

The Order spread widely in Sweden and Norway, and played a remarkable part in promoting culture and literature in Scandinavia ; to this is to be attributed the fact that the motherhouse at Vadstena, by Lake Vättern, was not suppressed till 1595 even though the Protestant Reformation had been widespread in Scandinavia.