General Confederation of Trade Unions

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.

There's hardly a dime in the Confederate treasury.

Private Beaufort was a major in the Confederate Army.

I used to belong to almost a confederation.

During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America.

This confederation, under French influence, put an end to the Holy Roman Empire.

Borglum had been involved in sculpting the Confederate Memorial Carving, a massive bas relief memorial to Confederate leaders on Stone Mountain in Georgia, but was in disagreement with the officials there.

A confederation on the other hand, is when two countries, or two regions if you will, are almost like two countries but loosely brought under one identity.

There was a real fool of a man a sort of confederate of mine curse him! who tried to steal my money.

And even if you look in ancient African empires, they were all organized around one particular principle the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power.

Throughout history, confederations have never really worked, because the question of sovereignty (and thus of power and legitimacy) remains unresolved.

Confederate offers late in the war to end slavery in return for diplomatic recognition were not seriously considered by London or Paris.

As a uniformed military service, the Army is part of the Department of the Army, which is one of the three military departments of the Department of Defense.

Sherman turned north through South Carolina and North Carolina to approach the Confederate Virginia lines from the south, increasing the pressure on Lee's army.

Free trade with the U.S. Starting before Confederation in 1867 the debate between free trade and protectionism was a defining issue in Canadian politics.

Western theater While the Confederate forces had numerous successes in the Eastern Theater, they were defeated many times in the West.

These seven states formed the Confederate States of America (February 4, 1861), with Jefferson Davis as president, and a governmental structure closely modeled on the U.S. Constitution.

If one of the allies fails in his engagements, the other may ... disengage himself in his promises, and ... break the treaty.

We are not here to give anyone advice on how to organize their own country, but in creating our own State we were guided by the experience that confederations are basically unstable.

The confederal link between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia provides the foundations for sustaining the sound political and economic relations suggested by history, the geographical link and geopolitical realities.

The Confederate Army took it as a sign that God was on their side during the battle as it was very rare that one could see the Lights in Virginia.

The Union, under Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward worked to block this, and threatened war if any country officially recognized the existence of the Confederate States of America.

Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, (10 April 1804 19 March 1883) was a British military officer and he was the second Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia post Confederation and the first Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

And even if you look in ancient African empires, they were all organized around one particular principle the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power.

Long before that I had grown up with the war, but alongside weekend sleepovers and Saturday soccer games and fistfights with racist children of the Confederacy and religio nationalist demonstrations chanting, Down with communism and long live Afghanistan, and burning effigies of Brezhnev before I even knew what it meant.

The Old Swiss Confederacy had acquired a reputation of invincibility during these earlier wars, but expansion of the federation suffered a setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the Battle of Marignano.

This was a cause championed by early Liberals such as the Reform Party (pre Confederation) and the Clear Grits, while Canada's early Conservatives, supported by loyalist institutions and big business, supported stronger links to Britain.

The Confederate government in Richmond, Virginia, had an uneasy relationship with its member states due to issues related to control of manpower, although the CSA mobilized nearly its entire white male population for war.

U.S. Code (2007) defines the organic laws of the United States of America to include the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, the Articles of Confederation of November 15, 1777, the Northwest Ordinance of July 13, 1787, and the Constitution of September 17, 1787.

After failing to moderate Bashir into accepting a secular decentralized or confederate Sudan, Egypt, a key Arab player concerned about the stability of its southern border, has come to accept the inevitability of secession so long as the new state lines up with it on the issue of the Nile s waters.