Sentence examples for form the states from inspiring English sources

Thurmond and like-thinking bigots came together in 1948 to form the States' Rights (or Dixiecrat) Party in the hope of defeating Truman by splitting the Democratic vote.

The 1948 platform, which included a call to abolish poll taxes and desegregate the military, was enough for a bloc of Southern states to defect and form the States' Rights Democratic Party — the "Dixiecrats" — whose eventual nominee, the South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, saw the platform as a call for "a police state in this country".

Thereby, the possible combinations of labels form the states.

In our scheme, the video segment of interest will be divided into shots to form the states S in HMM.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the history of the ancient kingdom of Bohemia containing myriad religious, national and ethnic ideologies, and how it was divided up to form the states of modern Central Europe.

What did it mean to be Bohemian then and how was the ancient kingdom of Bohemia, with its ferment of religious, national and ethnic ideologies, divided up to form the states of modern Central Europe?

They will form the state's 48th parliament.

In the 1950s, Northern California tried to form the state of Shasta, to protect its fresh water.

That government granted itself permission to form the state of West Virginia.

The two parties combined fell short of a majority by one seat and the centre-left SPD and the Greens went on to form the state government.

The conservative politician ruled out a resignation and said he hoped his party would be able to continue to form the state's coalition government.