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Example sentences for "denying ordinance"

  • Cromwell, being a member of the lower house, should have been discarded with the others; but this impartiality would have disappointed all the views of those who had introduced the self-denying ordinance.

  • During this important transaction of the self-denying ordinance, the negotiations for peace were likewise carried on, though with small hopes of success.

  • Though still weak in the House of Commons, it had spread prodigiously in the army, especially since its new-modelling at the time of the self-denying ordinance.

  • As a means to this end they proposed the Self-denying Ordinance, which disqualified all members of both houses from holding military commands; but the Lords rejected it.

  • Having done so they passed a new Self-denying Ordinance, which merely required that members of both houses should resign the posts they held, but contained no proviso against re-appointment.

  • The alarm at Westminster when this new development was reported was such that Cromwell, in spite of the Self-Denying Ordinance, was sent to raise an army for the defence of the Eastern Association.

  • Cromwell, then under Waller's command, had come to Windsor to resign his commission as required by the Self-denying Ordinance.

  • The first "self-denying ordinance" was moved on the 9th of December, and provided that "no member of either house shall have or execute any office or command .

  • To the House of Lords the Self-denying Ordinance was by no means palatable.

  • A proposal was made for the passing of a Self-denying Ordinance,[23] which was to exclude all members of either House from commands in the army.

  • Then it isn't a self-denying ordinance at all.

  • Is it a very terrible trial, the Self-denying Ordinance?

  • Gwen had remembered the Self-denying Ordinance, which was to last six months, and was not even inaugurated.

  • This self-denying ordinance was at once generously acted upon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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