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Example sentences for "pact"

Lexicographically close words:
packt; packthread; pacos; pacquet; pacquets; pacta; paction; pacto; pacts; pactum
  1. Kim and Pak, in their youth, swore a pact to abstain from drinking, which pact was speedily broken.

  2. Entreat thy Lord for us by the pact that He hath made with thee.

  3. P: And they observe toward a believer neither pact nor honour.

  4. P: How (can there be any treaty for the others) when, if they have the upper hand of you, they regard not pact nor honour in respect of you?

  5. And if one of you entrusteth to another let him who is trusted deliver up that which is entrusted to him (according to the pact between them) and let him observe his duty to Allah his Lord.

  6. P: Hath he perused the Unseen, or hath he made a pact with the Beneficent?

  7. Patrick, a pact with thee I make: Because my warriors they deride, With thee to heaven my father take, And leave they priests outside!

  8. It is for us, brethren, to see that the pact is kept.

  9. At last a travelling scholar confronted the ghost, and by his magic forced him to accept a pact by which, on condition of one day's freedom, he was to remain at rest for the remainder of the year.

  10. Albania immediately established close relations with Moscow, although Stalin never signed a mutual assistance pact with Tirana, as he had done with all the other European Communist countries.

  11. It did not, however, attend any meetings, and it withdrew officially from the Warsaw Pact after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

  12. In time it also became a member of the Warsaw Pact and the Council for Economic Mutual Assistance.

  13. When the soldier saw the Freemasons’ sign in my friend’s buttonhole, their pact was sealed.

  14. Thereupon we approached our two old soldiers and promptly sealed our pact of friendship.

  15. Twenty seconds more and he would have fulfilled his pact with Jean.

  16. The knowledge that she was to be with him, that they were joined in a pact which would make her his constant companion, filled him with joyous visions and anticipations.

  17. Occupation has become a legal transaction involving a unilateral pact not to disturb others in respect of their occupation of other things.

  18. The pact was the substance of the transaction.

  19. The stage of equity and natural law, relying on reason rather than on form, governed by philosophy instead of by naive faith, looked for the substance and found it in a pact preceding and presupposed by the formal ceremony.

  20. Otherwise the mere pact or agreement not within the cognizance of the priests was but a matter for self-help.

  21. But the pact does not derive its efficacy from the inherent moral force of a promise as such or the nature of man as a moral creature which holds him to promises.

  22. There, in case a pact was performed on one side, he who performed might claim restitution quasi ex contractu or claim the counter-performance ex contractu.

  23. Thus a formal contract was a pact with the addition of legal form.

  24. So again let us consider the statement that the instant the government usurps the sovereignty, then the social pact is broken, and all the citizens, restored by right to their natural liberty, are forced but not morally obliged to obey.

  25. When it was realized that Senate opposition to the Four Power Pact had been courted through the inadvertent guaranty of the home islands of Japan, the agreement was hastily modified to meet the Senate's views.

  26. On the Four Power Pact the best comment ever made was Mr. Frank Simonds's, "It was invented to save the British Empire from committing bigamy.

  27. All that Mr. Hughes had to do to establish peace where there was peace was to offer an agreement upon naval armament and accept the Anglo-Japanese plan for a wider pact in the Pacific.

  28. And the friends of the pact sat silent afraid of Reed's power as a debater, until Senator Lenroot having studied the document several minutes in the cloakroom read the plain language of the agreement to end the alliance.

  29. It was not strange that "catholicity" was revived as an idea of a peace pact by means of which the church might unite Christendom into a peace group for the welfare of mankind (sec.

  30. Now that we have the laws of Hammurabi we can see that the Euphrates valley was organized into a peace unit with a very complete and highly finished peace pact twenty-five hundred years before Christ.

  31. It has gone through one great convulsion, from which it issued with the peace pact greatly strengthened.

  32. Catholicity was an attempt to build a peace pact on ideals, and big ideas, and sympathies.

  33. The United States is a great peace unit, with a rational peace pact as a bond of union.

  34. The only conceivable explanation was that he had made a pact with the devil.

  35. The Roman law was the peace pact of that peace unit.

  36. He had driven the religious instinct out of her heart, and she was in revolt against heaven and the marriage pact forged by the authority of the Church.

  37. The vows were taken, the pact sealed, with the noise of a chant and music.

  38. In that chapter, as you may recall, the point was made that since individuals and not nations do business, the Pact was likely to fail.

  39. In other words, this helps to bear out the theory held in many quarters that the economic pact is after all merely a campaign document and utterly impracticable.

  40. There are two well-defined beliefs about the practical working out of the pact as a pact.

  41. Return to the economic pact again and you find that it continues to bristle with dangerous possibilities for us.

  42. In what has come to be known as the Paris Pact they bound themselves together by economic ties and pledged themselves to present a united economic front.

  43. On the other hand, there are many ways by which even a near translation of the economic pact into actuality may work hardship--even disaster--to American commercial interests.

  44. Whether that phase of the Paris Pact which calls for development and mobilisation of natural resources sees the light of reality or not, Britain is determined to take no chances for her own.

  45. Very well," she said, "we will make this pact to assist each other to return to civilization, but let it be understood that there is and never can be any semblance even of respect for you upon my part.

  46. And a pact was sealed between Ja-don and Om-at that would ever make his tribe and the Ho-don allies and friends.

  47. The National Guards do duty on the ramparts, drill in the streets, offer crowns to the statue of Strasburg, wear uniforms, and announce that they have made a pact with death.

  48. The editor is, I believe, the author of the "pact with death," which has been so deservedly ridiculed in the German newspapers.

  49. Two days after the Yugoslav Prime Minister (Dragisa Cvetkovic) and his foreign minister signed the Pact in Vienna - they were deposed together with the Regent Paul.

  50. But what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations in favour of the conspirators and against the Tripartite Pact erupted all over Serbia.

  51. The Pact was already joined by Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

  52. On March 1941, the Crown Council of Yugoslavia decided to accede to the Tripartite Pact of the Axis, though in a watered down form.

  53. Frederick entered into an alliance with him, and in violation of the pact of Caltabellotta made war on the Angevins again (1313) and captured Reggio.

  54. The whole function resembled a pact of vengeance sworn on the body of the dead warrior rather than a mere burial ceremony.

  55. Your want of confidence in your father set me dreaming; I dreamed you were making a pact with the Devil to do impossible things.

  56. He would not hesitate to sign a pact with the Devil to-morrow if so he might secure a few years of luxurious and glorious life.

  57. The pact was made; and it lasted, precisely because it seemed impossible.

  58. The Duchess had made a pact that left her free to prove to the world by words and deeds that M.

  59. The Federal Pact of 1815 had undone Napoleon's comparatively liberal constitution.

  60. And while his minister’s unavenged blood was yet warm this monster of ingratitude was concluding with the dead man’s enemies a pact in which blasphemy and treachery played equal parts.

  61. It would have been like the disregard Ferdinand had always shown for “scraps of paper” if he had committed Bulgaria to a pact which he had already broken when it was signed.

  62. Over this the censors differed, two of them pronouncing it innocent, while five held it to be included in the prohibitions of the Ars Notoria as a tacit pact with the demon.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pact" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.