Sentences with phrase «confederacy only»
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.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
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.
This severely threatened the North, since not only would it lose the tariffs that southerners paid into the national coffers, but it would be unable to prevent tariff - free goods from crossing the border from the Confederacy into the Union.
The problem here is that the plaintiffs in any such suit would be obliged to sue not only the states we think of as having been slaveholding states — the states of the old Confederacy — but any state where slavery had been legalized at any time.
Ferguson describes meeting the protest's leader, a rhapsodist of the Old Confederacy, who believes Lincoln «invented the concept of Total War» in order to advance the interests of Big Business and Big Government and smash «a Southern culture of farms and small towns that only asked to be left alone.»
It is far from being that simple, though, as he explains in an extended monologue to his Cabinet the warped legal logic that brought about the Emancipation Proclamation — a declaration that only works by admitting that the Confederacy is a legitimate nation and that slaves are property, both of which are the exact opposite of Lincoln's beliefs.
Hence the only body that would be authorized to make a treaty with any foreign power would be the central council representing the full Aboriginal Confederacy.
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.