Sentences with phrase «settled by the civil war»

Had the matter not finally been settled by the Civil War and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, this pressure might well have resulted in a gradual dismantling of Dred Scott.

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Bill, meanwhile, who, in an early scene, is saved by Sookie from «drainers» — rogue humans who steal vampires» blood for its notorious sensory - and libido - enhancing properties (and, naturally, its black - market value)-- is eager to settle down in sleepy Bon Temps, and may get the welcome mat if Sookie's kind grandmother (Lois Smith) can get her Civil War society to accept a real (if not technically «alive») veteran of that conflict speaking at one of their functions.

As he settles into his new life, the country is experiencing its own turmoil: an oil embargo has led to martial law and civil war, with the government being led by a man with Fascist ambitions who uses the energy crisis, violent street demonstrations, and a mass shooting to give himself new dictatorial powers and establish a force of Special Police.

Normal people may not settle their quarrels by hurling each other through walls, but the actor says the emotional deathmatch in Civil War is just an exaggerated version of an ultra-tense holiday dinner.

At the end of the American Civil War a number of Southerners who had no desire to be reconstructed by the Yankee Carpetbaggers came to Belize and settled in the Toledo District and elsewhere in the country.