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Example sentences for "national authority"

  • This latest assertion of national authority in federal elections involved no new principle.

  • All the disturbances that abounded throughout the country were overshadowed, however, by a tremendous struggle which centered in Chicago and which brought about new and most impressive developments of national authority.

  • It is becoming no less clear that some Authority--we say a National Authority--must register and deal with the man who is unemployed, long before extended unemployment has demoralised him and reduced his family to destitution.

  • Mr. Stevens was totally opposed to the exercise of any power whatever by the States over banks established by National authority.

  • She had been often reproached for urging forward the anti-slavery agitation, which was the excuse of the South for rebelling against the National authority.

  • In Missouri General Nathaniel Lyon had put to flight the disloyal governor, and established the supremacy of National authority.

  • Fairfax's Devisee, they hurled at the Supreme Court Virginia's defiance of National authority.

  • Forcible resistance by a State to National authority!

  • Through both these sets of resolutions--that on the Missouri question and that on the Bank decision--ran the intimation of forcible resistance to National authority.

  • He supported it as a great act of national authority and of justice.

  • It is impossible for a government like ours, with limited powers, to undertake the protection of life and property in any of the states except where resistance is made to national authority.

  • I would do this, not for the purpose of irritating the south or oppressing them in any way, but to assert and maintain the supremacy of national authority to the full extent of all the powers conferred by the constitution.

  • We are for the exercise of national authority, for the preservation of rights conferred by the constitution, and upon this broad issue we invite co-operation from the south as well as the north.

  • The Southern States had responded to this Act of National authority by enacting a series of laws which really introduced, as has already been shown, a new, offensive and most oppressive form of servitude.

  • The new Legislature met at Nashville a month later, on the 3d of April, and on the 5th ratified the Thirteenth Amendment; thus adding the abolition of slavery by National authority to that already decreed by the State.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after referring; death compassed; fared forth; fill the; honest money; light infantry; national affairs; national authority; national banks; national character; national church; national committee; national defence; national drama; national economy; national life; national organization; national output; national security; national sovereignty; national system; national wealth; nationalize slavery; slept till; speak evil; touching the