Sentence examples for material interest of from inspiring English sources

Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world.

In its secession papers, Mississippi, for example, called slavery "the greatest material interest of the world" and said that attempts to stop it would undermine "commerce and civilization".

They will not quote what Mississippi said in its secession ordinances, that slavery was "the greatest material interest of the world," or mention its fear that abolition would undermine "commerce and civilization".

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world... [The north] advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.

Some find fascism deeply irrational, whereas others are impressed with the rationality with which it served the material interests of its supporters.

"It is the immediate duty of congress fully to investigate the effects of the immigration and importation of Mongolians on the moral and material interests of the country," the Republican National Convention resolved in 1876.

Philip soon found more practical ways of venting his grief and proving his dedication to God, while also advancing the material interests of a realm that was impoverished by long years of warfare.

"There's no contradiction between religion and citizenship, or religion and the Constitution, or religion and the state," he said, arguing that Islamic law's first requirement of government was to look after the material interests of the people.

To settle the strikes, the Polish government in August 1980 agreed to recognize new, self-governing trade unions, authentic representatives of the working class whose task would be to defend the social and material interests of workers.

And so far had they succeeded in creating a war among the material interests of the world, that in 1819 the collision occasioned thereby threatened the most serious consequences to our Social and Commercial existence.

While maintaining an entirely friendly attitude toward the church, Theodosius still took care in his legislation to see that the material interests of the state were sacrificed only to a very limited extent to church or clergy.