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Example sentences for "civil wars"

  • Emperor might succeed Emperor, in a series of civil wars.

  • In the absence of foreign adventure or Civil Wars, the armies were mainly used as frontier police.

  • At length John Basilides freed it from slavery, and enlarged its boundaries: but, after his time, it was ruined again by civil wars.

  • Yet, were I free to apply my thoughts, as my own choice directed them; I should hardly again venture into the Civil Wars of Censures.

  • He will not venture again into the Civil Wars of Censure [Criticism].

  • This industry has been greatly prejudiced by civil wars, which not only destroyed the plantations and interrupted transportation, but deprived them of the labouring force essential to their maintenance and development.

  • Civil wars have of course been a serious obstacle, but it was announced by President Reyes in 1907 that the revenues were increasing.

  • Toward the end of the 19th century, after a decline in production due to the abolition of slavery and to civil wars, increased interest was shown abroad in Colombian mining operations.

  • The holy wars then degenerate into civil wars, in which both religion and humanity are outraged.

  • Religion itself watched over Germany, which had been so long troubled by civil wars.

  • For the latter only makes provision to secure the rights of nations, as WHOLE communities, and not of those, who, as in civil wars, form but ONE PART of a nation.

  • In reading the history of civil wars; we find more frequent instances of indignities offered to the dead, than in the accounts of any foreign wars.

  • Pursued by his rival, Brutus threw himself into Modena, and there sustained a long siege (Appian, Civil Wars, III.

  • The barbarous Britons ceasing to be ignorant of luxury, and the termination of civil wars, gave him an excuse for inactivity.

  • The narrative of Appian is the same (Civil Wars, i.

  • Most of the remarks which I have made respecting foreign wars are applicable a fortiori to civil wars.

  • I shall add but a few words on civil wars, for fear of exhausting the patience of the reader.

  • In Chile, a narrow plain shut in between the Andes and the sea, losers cannot hide; a single encounter in force is enough; civil wars cannot be prolonged in remote provinces or by the flight of the defeated to inaccessible deserts.

  • Discontent, disorders, civil wars increased in violence as the years went by.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both kinds; civil authority; civil cases; civil causes; civil discord; civil laws; civil marriage; civil practice; civil servant; civil suits; civil war; civil wars; civilian life; civilised society; civilized communities; civilized countries; civilized nations; civilized people; civilized society; civilized warfare; defend himself; every man; under similar; warp threads; will give; wire netting