When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederation against him. From LearnThat.org. [Jonathan Swift (1667-1745).]
Certainly, this road to political unification or confederation is a long and rocky one. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the Common Market] Reference
We take from our part in confederation-in material terms-in dollars and cents-more than we put into it. From Wordnik.com. [Optimism for the Future] Reference
This confederation is only 50 years old, and I suppose some of usindeed I do-I remember the first anniversary of the organization of Canada. From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Reorganization] Reference
While using the word confederation, I do not, of course, imply that anything similar to the federal union of Switzerland or of North America existed in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
There is another and possibly even more serious result of the west's unhappiness over their position in confederation and this could result in the actual break-up of the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Western Canada: Revolt or Reform] Reference
Europe may now be called a confederation of kindred races. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
I have said that the idea of confederation was a powerless abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Public Opinion] Reference
It would be hard to say from whom the idea of confederation of all the provinces first sprang. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
The high administrator of the confederation is a man called Ebullius Gaius Cassius, of the Warriors. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting Slave Of Gor]
Whether the United States are one sovereign people or only a confederation is a question of very grave importance. From Wordnik.com. [The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny] Reference
The four most noted centres of the trade of the confederation were the cities of Bruges, London, Bergen, and Novgorod. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
A confederation is the highest organization yet invented for the purpose of making a great peace union without interfering with domestic autonomy. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
The game tells the story of a futuristic confederation which is protected. From Wordnik.com. [2010 May : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy] Reference
After the suffering of all of the people of Kosovo in the 1990s, we can never have any kind of confederation with Serbia. From Wordnik.com. [Kosovo Wants Independence] Reference
Allbaugh is one of many opportunists who have set up shop to take advantage of his old boss 'confederation's global power agenda. From Wordnik.com. [Robbing Us Blind from FEMA to Iraq] Reference
There will have to be some new configuration, inevitably some kind of confederation that separates yet links Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: Bush's Escalation: Honor Killings for the Empire] Reference
It was the "first sketch of a plan of confederation which is known to have been presented to Congress.". From Wordnik.com. [Benjamin Franklin] Reference
Ideas for a "confederation" of an independent North and an independent South had been kicking around for 30 years. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Her one other confidant was Savile; and it struck Bertie that a kind of confederation with the boy might be a success. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelfth Hour] Reference
Venetia was still a confederation of lagoon-islands; and then in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Will Iraq have a strong central government or be a weak confederation?. From Wordnik.com. [General: U.S. Accelerating Iraq Withdrawal] Reference
Even the usually protectionist AFL-CIO trade-union confederation favors an amnesty. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Caged Bird Sings] Reference
The organization is run as a confederation of thousands of semiautonomous Habitat chapters. From Wordnik.com. [Building Success] Reference
"Germany has begun a process that can transform the federation into a confederation," he says. From Wordnik.com. [City On The Edge] Reference
Our Union is a confederation of independent States, whose policy is peace with each other and all the world. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
"It's union or chaos," trumpeted Pravda last week as a March 17 referendum on Soviet confederation drew near. From Wordnik.com. [Which Side Are You On?] Reference
What a mighty confederation of land, water, commerce, wealth and people is the United States when we come to think of it. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference
The workers confederation says new reforms will allow Cubans to lease land, form cooperatives and become self-employed. From Wordnik.com. [Cuba to Move State Employees into Private Sector] Reference
The graffiti was signed "ELF" for Earth Liberation Front, a loose confederation of ecosaboteurs already well known out west. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Suburbia] Reference
According to the national confederation of industrialists, Conindustria, foreign private investment dropped 90 percent last year. From Wordnik.com. [Out For Revenge?] Reference
Iraq would end up a loose confederation, but would divide its oil revenue so that all three regions were invested in the new nation. From Wordnik.com. [Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward] Reference
Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Is it going to be a loose confederation of different groups or is it going to be a tightly controlled country with a central government. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Real ‘Vietnam’] Reference
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