The greatest threat to the system was the interference or interposition of favourites—"accidental people"—and, to guard against this, the oligarchy entered into an alliance with the rank-and-file service nobles who wanted to join its ranks and could hope to do so with the help of the dignitaries' patronage.
Byrd and the other extreme segregationists hoped that public opinion would continue to harden against Brown, allowing political leaders to adopt interposition rather than a more moderate response.
In an effort to strengthen the Stanley plan's interposition elements, the bill also authorized circuit courts to file injunctions against any school district which violated the assignment decrees which invited the prospect of pitting state courts against federal ones.
Mr. Kilpatrick popularized the doctrine called interposition, according to which individual states had the constitutional duty to interpose their separate sovereignties against federal court rulings that went beyond their rightful powers and, if necessary, to nullify them, an argument traced to the writings of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and John C. Calhoun.
The delegates seemed to feel that nullification and interposition were the emptiest of threats, not worth wasting their breath on.
An odd interposition of an Italian vocal trio of grieving citizens stood out, thanks to Yulia van Doren and Douglas Williams.
No memory of how Phil was injured, a fall into glass, a dark interposition with a knife.
It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent".
The legislatures of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, and South Carolina in solemn session have passed interposition, or nullification, resolutions, which declare that the Supreme Court's ruling violates their sovereignty.
"The ministries have disappeared," said Mr. Touré, who called for the interposition of an international force to counter the "barbarian horde" that has weapons.
