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Example sentences for "dismemberment"

Lexicographically close words:
dismayed; dismaying; dismember; dismembered; dismembering; dismiss; dismissal; dismissals; dismisse; dismissed
  1. When everything seemed to threaten the dismemberment of her states, she threw herself upon the generous fidelity of her Hungarian subjects with a dignified resolution that has few examples.

  2. You grandees are now too rich, and though you pretend to be anxious about my interests, you are only thinking of what might happen to yourselves in case of my death, and the dismemberment of my empire.

  3. He always represented the limits of the Rhine as merely a compensation for the dismemberment of Poland and the immense aggrandisement of the English possessions in Asia.

  4. He fell from a great height, but he never, by his signature, consented to any dismemberment of France.

  5. As soon as Alexander ascended the throne the ideas of the First Consul respecting the dismemberment of Poland were revived, and almost wholly engrossed his mind.

  6. Can you endure to think of the dismemberment of our country?

  7. The Directory had not then in reserve, like Bonaparte, the idea of making the dismemberment of Venice serve as a compensation for such of the Austrian possessions as the French Republic might retain.

  8. The different treaties of dismemberment were pronounced to be null; and certainly the Diet had a right so to act, for it calculated upon his support.

  9. But if France is true to herself, if she goes on as she has done lately, and if her forces are rationally handled, she may possibly succeed in shaking off her assailants, and avoid the dismemberment with which she is threatened.

  10. Sir Alexander Malet shows conclusively that Austria was not a voluntary agent in the dismemberment of Denmark, and that, had we actively interposed, she would have been very glad to back out of the partnership with Prussia.

  11. Had peace been made before any agreement for a permanent union was formed, it is far from being improbable that the different parts might have fallen asunder, and a dismemberment have taken place.

  12. We are being lulled into the belief of a sure dismemberment of Austria, on which dismemberment is based this new creation of our allies, i.

  13. Various reasons for the dismemberment are given and the incident is rather awkwardly tacked on to other stories.

  14. It recalls the tales told of Osiris, Orpheus and Halfdan the Black[724] and may be ultimately traceable to the idea that the dismemberment of a deity or a human representative ensures fertility.

  15. Have we here in a Buddhist form some ancient legend of dismemberment like that told of Satî in Assam?

  16. In Sanskrit literature I have not found any authority for the dismemberment of Satî earlier than the Tantras or Upapurâṇas (e.

  17. The division that took place was neither deep nor important, and there is not the slightest prospect of a dismemberment that can in any way be compared with the nature of the sects of Protestantism.

  18. However, it is possible that the story of the dismemberment of Osiris, like the similar story told of Thammuz, may have been simply a mythical expression for the scattering of the seed.

  19. The rest of the myth included the dismemberment of Horus and the beheading of Isis.

  20. Against the Guaranty of Dismemberment I oppose the Guaranty of Disarmament.

  21. The King was taken to England, where, after swelling the triumphal pageant of his conqueror, he made a disgraceful treaty for the dismemberment of France, which the indignant nation would not ratify.

  22. Dismemberment on this account would be only another form of retaliation; but retaliation is barbarous.

  23. Nor can it be forgotten how inconsistent is the guaranty of Dismemberment with that heroic passion for national unity which is the glory of Germany.

  24. Therefore it is a war of pretexts, the real object being the humiliation and dismemberment of Germany, in the vain hope of exalting the French Empire and perpetuating a bawble crown on the head of a boy.

  25. If we had suffered that loss, dismemberment would have been a lesser one.

  26. God has desired that this experiment of free government should have a more perfect trial, and it was impossible that the brave men of the loyal States should consent to dismemberment of the Union.

  27. I even seemed to hear them denouncing Malcolmson as one of those who march through rapine and bloodshed to the dismemberment of an Empire.

  28. It was a very good manifesto, full of weighty words about the present crisis and the necessity of standing shoulder to shoulder against the iniquitous plot of the Government for the dismemberment of the Empire.

  29. As to the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire, it seems that far from solving the Eastern question, it is likely to bring about many fresh difficulties, for it is a political mistake as well as an injustice.

  30. Turkey from 1699 down to the Sèvres Treaty; it shows that, by completing the dismemberment of Turkey, the treaty aimed at her annihilation.

  31. An openly nationalist, or rather national, movement asserted itself, which publicly protested both against the restoration of the old régime and the dismemberment of Turkey.

  32. On landing in Venice, he told the correspondent of the Giornale d’Italia that the object of his journey was to convince the Allies that the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire would be a danger to the peace of the world.

  33. On the 22d of March the king cheerfully gave his assent, and the famous Stamp Act--the entering wedge for the dismemberment of the British empire--became a law.

  34. The dismemberment of this great country without convulsion!

  35. In October 1807, Junot, in command of the French Army, and strengthened by a few regiments of the Spanish corps placed at Napoleon’s disposal for the dismemberment of the western portion of the Iberian Peninsula, began his march on Lisbon.

  36. States to which Austrian territory was transferred and States arising from the dismemberment of Austria shall acquire all property within their territories of the old or new Austrian Government, including that of the former royal family.

  37. But dismemberment strikes at the very being which preserves these faculties.

  38. They constitute the sole ground on which dismemberment can be resisted.

  39. If she wished to avoid dismemberment she must fight, and to fight against these two great powers seemed madness.

  40. Germany made like promises of territorial gains to Hungary and to Poland in order to gain their cooperation or at least their acquiescence in the proposed dismemberment of Czechoslovakia.

  41. As I learned through my diplomatic colleagues, Von Papen in Vienna and his colleague Von Mackensen in Budapest were openly propagating the idea of the dismemberment and final absorption of Czechoslovakia as early as 1935.


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    Other words:
    confinement; deprivation; gantlet; gauntlet; imprisonment; incarceration; jailing; martyrdom; picketing; rack; separation; torment; torture; undoing