• Jordan was the first stop on a Middle East trip in which he also visited Israel and the Palestinian territories.

    VOA: special.2009.05.18

  • Slidell returned to the United States,firm in the belief that only force could win the Mexican territories the United States wanted.

    VOA: special.2009.02.19

  • Puerto Rico,Guam,American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.Minor Outlying Islands and the United States Virgin Islands are territories.

    VOA: special.2010.04.02

  • On the question of slavery in the new territories, Cass believed that the people of the territory should make the decision.

    VOA: special.2009.03.05

  • Many Republicans supported the proposal, even though the Republican Party opposed the spread of slavery into the western territories.

    VOA: special.2009.07.23

  • The report lists twenty-eight countries and territories with some of the world's most pressing crises affecting women and children.

    VOA: special.2010.02.15

  • It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

    VOA: special.2009.04.30

  • He admitted that the old Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty had limited the right to take slaves into the territories.

    VOA: special.2009.03.26

  • The question was this: did Congress have the power to control or even ban slavery in the new territories?

    VOA: special.2009.03.05

  • In this way, the case could be settled without deciding on the power of Congress to act on slavery in the territories.

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

  • Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, a thirty-eight year old federation of seven territories ruled by emirs.

    VOA: special.2009.12.04

  • They said their decision would include a statement that Congress did have power over slavery in the territories.

    VOA: special.2009.05.14

  • Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

    VOA: special.2009.04.23

  • But the question remained: should slavery be legal in new territories in the western part of the country?

    VOA: special.2009.04.02

  • Then a senator from Delaware agreed to be chairman of a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

    VOA: special.2009.02.26

  • It said Congress had no right to help spread slavery by permitting it in the new western territories.

    VOA: special.2009.03.12

  • The group has simpler ideas -- like reducing water use at schools and other buildings in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

    VOA: special.2009.05.18

  • In that year, Congress debated a proposal to create two territories from one large area in the west.

    VOA: special.2009.04.30

  • The real question was this: did Congress have the power to control or bar slavery in the territories.

    VOA: special.2009.02.26

  • Friends of the Earth Middle East is an organization of activists from Israel, Jordan and the territories.

    VOA: special.2009.05.18

  • The bill did not clearly say if slavery would be legal,or illegal, in the two new territories.

    VOA: special.2009.04.23

  • So they do not have stars,either. Some of the territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, may vote to become states in the future.

    VOA: special.2010.04.02

  • For those opposed to slavery, the platform rejected the idea that slave owners had a constitutional right to take slaves into new territories.

    VOA: special.2009.07.09

  • All questions on slavery in these two territories must be decided by the United States Supreme Court.

    VOA: special.2009.03.05

  • He said it must give the South an equal right in the new territories of the West.

    VOA: special.2009.03.26

  • He said the North must recognize the rights of southerners, especially the right to take slave property into territories of the United States.

    VOA: special.2009.03.26

  • And on California and New Mexico, the bill proposed this: they could be organized as territories.

    VOA: special.2009.03.05

  • The Supreme Court ruled that Congress did not have the power to close territories to slavery.

    VOA: special.2009.05.21

  • Senator John Clayton of Delaware proposed to the Senate that it name a special committee on the question of slavery in the new territories.

    VOA: special.2009.03.05

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定