Sentence examples similar to sectional struggles from inspiring English sources

The early republic's struggle over slavery's survival and expansion was principally a result of the ongoing sectional struggle for political sovereignty, a struggle over "the dominion of the Union," as Rufus King put it.

Johnston was an outspoken opponent of the Texas-Pacific Bill, a sectional struggle for control of railroads in the South, which figured in the Compromise of 1877.

Our bet is right around sectionals.

These clashes were the opening battles in the sectional political struggle that led, a dozen years after Polk left office, to the Civil War.

He said the war was not a struggle of mere "sectional character," but a "war of ideas, a battle of principles".

Their intransigence provided a keynote to four years of equally fierce struggle on many other issues in the country, with different sectional groups turning to noisy direct action.

Mrs. Kearney hated their sectional sofa.

"They had this huge turquoise sectional.

"I showed them the sectional flag.

They are either sectional or seamless.

Sectional work and solos shone repeatedly.