"southern" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The president believed that Thornberry, a Texan, would mollify skeptical southern senators.
- He made a fierce opponent in debate and took special delight in goading southern senators into blurting out statements that would embarrass the Democratic party.
- After this defeat, Secretary Davis and southern senators pressed Pierce to add more provisions to the treaty including:
- Ms. Cox said she could not even guarantee that the seven southern senators would appear.
- In 1861 he was the only southern senator to remain loyal to the Union.
- It passed in the U.S. House of Representatives but was prevented from a vote in the Senate by pro slavery southern senators.
- Tazewell found little support for it among southern senators.
- Yarborough had been the only southern senator to vote for the Civil Rights Act.
- He survived two close reelections, and finally reached a point attained by most southern senators where he was simply left alone.
- Other southern senators, who had agreed as part of a compromise not to filibuster this bill, were upset with Thurmond.
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