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

So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.

所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土

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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