Stephens Sentence Examples

In 1854 Stephens helped to secure the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.

Stephens and other Whigs of the South then chose Daniel Webster, but a little later they joined the Democrats.

Stephens headed the Confederate commission to the peace conference at Hampton Roads in February 1865.

Stephens's discovery of the ore in 1877 was the making of the city of Leadville, which, in 1878, within a year of its foundation, had over io,000 inhabitants.

The Life of Horne Tooke, by Alexander Stephens, is written in an unattractive style and was the work of an admirer only admitted to his acquaintance at the close of his days.

Pio Perez (in Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan) and in the remarkable 16th century Relation de las cocas de Yucatan by Diego de Landa, published by Brasseur de Bourbourg (Paris, 1864).

In 1817 the Mississippi Territory was divided; the western portion became the state of Mississippi, and the eastern the territory of Alabama, with St Stephens, on the Tombigbee river, as the temporary seat of government.

Stephens was about the only prominent political leader who contended that Lincoln's election was insufficient ground for such action.

The first Englishman who actually visited India was Thomas Stephens in 1579.

He studied at the Lycee Charlemagne, in 1850 became a teacher in New Orleans, Louisiana, and there became acquainted with John Lloyd Stephens's books of travel in Yucatan.

At Columbia, also, are the Parker Memorial hospital, the Teachers College high school, the University Military Academy, the Columbia Business College, Christian College (Disciples) for women, established in 1851, its charter being the first granted by Missouri for the collegiate education of Protestant women; the Bible College of the Disciples of Christ in Missouri; and Stephens College (under Baptist control) for women, established in 1856.

The civil war was not Stephens only trouble; foreign invasion was added.

It was not Stephens fault that the boundary of England did not permanently recede from the Tweed and the Soiway to the Tyne and the Ribble.

She was hailed as a sovereign by a great assembly at Winchester, over which Stephens own brother Bishop Henry presided (April 7, 1141) and entered London in triumph in June.

From the point of view of his English subjects his main achievement was that he restored iii almost every detail the well-organized bureaucracy which his ancestor had created, and with it the law and order that had disappeared during Stephens unhappy reign.

He expelled all Stephens mercenaries, took back into his hands the royal lands and castles which his predecessor had granted away, and destroyed hundreds of the adulterine castles which the barons and knights had built without leave during the years of the anarchy.

For the reign of Stephen we have the anonymous Gesta Stephani in addition to the writers already mentioned, several of whom continue into Stephens reign.

Stephens published the first (1886) and second (1892) volumes of a History of the French Revolution.

The innocuous challenge by Moses saw a penalty awarded which Andy Stephens could do nothing about.

The 55 mile team consisted of Mark Owen, Judith Baxter, Rachel Stephens, Nicola Beeby, Matthew Amos and Iain Telford.

He loved Stephens Fruit ' De Mer (Fruits Of The Sea) which he shared with his gorgeous girlfriend Susannah Dwyer.

After Stephens became manager in August 1911, he bought a replacement locomotive from Bute Works Supply Co (later becoming another Hesperus ).

Stephens vision is to help hoteliers see, understand and provide inclusive facilities that make it commercially beneficial for all concerned.

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It will be enough merely to name Dumeril's Zoologie analytique (1806) and Gravenhorst's Vergleichende Ubersicht des linneischen and einiger neuern zoologischen Shaw and Systeme (1807); nor need we linger over Shaw's General Zoology, a pretentious compilation continued by Stephens.

Stephens ' performance in the 50m freestyle saw him shave almost a second off his previous best with a time of 36.21 seconds.

Finally their appearance was not improved by Stephens ' specialty of the period, a stovepipe chimney.

The turbine is silent except for a swishing sound in strong winds, says Stephens.

Reforming zeal Stephens now saw his life 's work clearly.

Stephens' early goal was to make a dent in the number of economic euthanasias.