Sentences with word «confederacy»

What's the matter, are you sold out of Confederacy of Dunces this week...?

At the conference, there were only two people present as «Indigenous representation»: an Indigenous consultant from the First Nations Confederacy in Manitoba, Canada; and a participant from Research and Development in Health and Welfare Canada who referenced Indigeneity in their professional background.

Gary Thompson: It's billed as the first movie about lacrosse, the country's fastest growing sport and also the continent's oldest, played by the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy going back a thousand years or more — a heritage reflected in the underdog scenario that drives «Crooked Arrows.»

Speaking to members of the Tertiary branch of the party, Tertiary Students Confederacy Network (TESCON) at the campus of Kumasi Technical University Ambassador Ayisi among other things stated that his priority is to the members of the ruling government before any Ghanaian.

What Tecumseh proposed instead was a policy that would treat all the territory held by all the constituencies of the Aboriginal Confederacy as a unified whole.

After Tecumseh was killed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813, the Aboriginal Confederacy largely disintegrated.

This article is to commemorate the 18th Anniversary of the formation of the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (TESCON).

Despite bravely fighting the alien aggressors and saving many lives, he was arrested by Confederacy forces on the pretext of destroying Confederate property at Backwater Station.

The nine million white citizens and four million former slaves who lived in the former Confederacy faced a grim future.

In «Winchester,» the Spierigs have made a blunt and pissy American political film about the national curse of firearms and the unslaked, violent, destructive anger of the defeated Confederacy.

Henco Industries Limited v. Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy Council, 2006 CanLII 41649 (ON CA)-- 2006-12-14 Court of Appeal for Ontario — Ontario

«The Neutral Confederacy» In The Canadian Encyclopedia.

The first issue to be examined, and one still sharply debated, is that of the socioeconomic and political nature of the formation of the Israelite tribal confederacy.

Try looking at how people idolize the Southern Confederacy when all they did was seceed to maintain their state's right to have slavery, the worst blight on the history of the United States.

There is a loosely knit confederacy of street photographers, many of whom observe a code of behavior befitting a profession, but interaction between us is usually restricted to getting out of the way when we bump into each other on the street.

Portis is perhaps our greatest 20th - century comic novelist — any of you who liked Confederacy of Dunces or who go for P.G. Wodehouse will likely love Portis.

When the War of 1812 began, the Aboriginal Confederacy took Detroit quickly and without casualties.

Landsman has been told, by the same loose confederacy of physicians, psychologists, and his former spouse, that alcohol will kill his gift for recollection, but so far, to his regret, this claim has proved false.

There's no right to bear arms in the Articles of Confederacy which would be the founding document, written in 1777 and ratified in 1781.

Pappy McAllen (Jonathan Banks, utterly terrifying) is as awful a racist as you would expect from someone weaned on the teat of Lost Cause Confederacy, but the realest villain is Henry, who simply expects to command any black bodies in his vicinity, because he is the white landowner.

So why would you bother with an executive suite full of strangers when, for the cost of some initial rent, you and your peers could start your own confederacy of soloists?

There is the spirit of anti-christ then there is a coming world leader that will, at some point in the future, control a 10 nation confederacy only to set himself up a newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem and call himself God.

Would the civil right movement been aided if instead of a U.S. empire King had lived in an unconquered confederacy?

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

The Federalists» Constitution was without a doubt a project designed to replace a weak, inefficient Confederacy with a much more powerful and efficient national state.

They discuss that topic, as well as land claims and how the Onondaga fit with the other Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

Originally, the area was part of the Lenape's Lenapehoking territory inhabited by Siwanoy of the Wappinger Confederacy.

John Wilkes Booth was a States Rights, pro Confederacy, pro slavery Democrat, so essentially what currently serves as the republican party base.

Citizens Assembly — Greek Confederacy with Direct Democracy In Action, coalition of independent candidates, G. Kokkas

Inman's long journey home takes him through the crumbling confederacy, as he meets people of all walks of life who both aid and hinder his mission.

Semi-feral deserters maraud through the battered countryside, sexually assaulting and murdering their way across an old Confederacy now deprived of so many of its able - bodied men.

Too bad they couldn't come up with anything more interesting for the shattered, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. confederacy to do besides battling each other.

A governmental directive for IMF spies to come in from the proverbial cold gives evil a license to thrive, especially the Syndicate, a clandestine confederacy of assassins bent on what else but world domination.

«No Logo is an attractive sprawl of a book describing a vast confederacy of activist groups with a common interest in reining in the power of lawyering, marketing, and advertising to manipulate our desires.»

The first was an examination of republics and confederacies throughout history, including Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany, along with classical examples — the Lycian, Amphictyonic, and Achean republics.

In fact, between 1840 and 1880 Germans were the largest group of immigrants, boosted by the «Forty - Eighters» - a wave of political refugees leaving the German confederacy either because they were on the government's wanted list or simply because they were disappointed by the failure of the 1848 uprisings to bring about political change and wanted to start afresh in a new country.

Throughout history, governments that couldn't or wouldn't collect enough taxes to finance their spending resorted to the printing press, from the U.S. Confederacy in the 1860s to Zimbabwe in the 1990s.

The Southern States, a title that will conjure up images of historical Confederacy, pecan pie, the rolling green hills of Virginia and the sweltering swamplands of Florida's Everglades.

Robed mannequins in dunce caps on the surrounding balcony — a disturbing confederacy of dunces — bring to mind visions of the occult, looming with a sinister Klan - like presence.

This is how Puerto Rican nationalist Ramon Emeterio Betances calls for the independence of the Caribbean and the foundation of an Antillean Confederacy.

This climate change denial confederacy has exerted an influence out of all proportion to its size or relative scientific credibility.