In America itself, the progress made by the border States does not seem to confirm what is told us of the reaction caused by the aggressions of abolitionism.
On this very account great facilities existed for its settlement by the southern fugitives, ready to hold it of the Scottish crown by feudal military tenure, and to defend it against the aggressions of the new power established in England.
The patience of Germany indeed was worn out by the ceaseless aggressions of Lewis, and in 1686 its princes had bound themselves at Augsburg to resist all further encroachments on the part of France.
It was in vain that Halifax pressed for energetic resistance to the aggressions of France, for the recall of Monmouth, or for the calling of a fresh Parliament.
The next observation of the author, that "there are vast numbers of political laws which influence the obligations of contracts, which may thus furnish an easy pretext for the aggressions of the central authority," is rather obscure.
The institution of the jury, if confined to criminal causes, is always in danger; but when once it is introduced into civil proceedings, it defies the aggressions of time and of man.
But what now remains of those barriers which formerly arrested the aggressions of tyranny?
For there are vast numbers of political laws which influence the obligations of contracts, which may thus furnish an easy pretext for the aggressions of the central authority.
Black Hawk at last determined to put a stop to theseaggressions upon his people, and accordingly gave notice to those who were perpetrating them, that they must remove, forthwith, from his village.
But the little state has had to fight for its life against the aggressions of its western rival Bornu and its eastern neighbor Darfur.
But a location at the meeting place of French, German, Austrian and Italian frontiers laid upon them the distasteful necessity of union within to withstand aggressions crowding upon them from without.
Thus they cannot only defend themselves against all aggressions from the males, but could, at any moment when he least expected his danger, terminate the existence of an offending spouse.
The validity of such demands seemed to these two great lords a matter of more importance than French aggressions or Scottish inroads.
The first Burmese war arose out of persistent aggressions by the new kingdom of Ava or Burma on what is now the British province of Assam, but was then an independent, though feeble, state.
The university of Oxford was a natural centre for such a reaction, and it was set on foot with the deliberate purpose of defending the Church and the Christianity of England against the anti-catholic aggressions of the dominant liberalism.
Already in November, 1804, the Austrian court had entered into a secret agreement with Russia to make war on France in the event of further French aggressions in Italy.
It is a curious fact that just when the Far East had successfully resisted European encroachment, the Near and Middle East should have been subjected to European aggressions of unparalleled severity.
Furthermore, this new temper profoundly influenced the Orient's attitude toward the series of fresh European aggressions which then began.
Meanwhile British aggressions multiplied, and grew more daring and aggravated.
Suffer not the present outrage, by effecting its avowed object, to invite farther aggressions on your rights.
Efforts were also made to prevent the recurrence of those unauthorised aggressions by Russian frontier officers, which had kept Central Asia in perpetual turmoil.
The Maratha aggressions of the early part of the present century compelled it, like many other Indian States, to seek English aid.
His action led to the demarcation of a political boundary between Afghanistan and Persia; which practically put an end to the aggressions of the latter.
This had never been settled, and had for generations formed the arena of mutual aggressions and sanguinary raids.
Vast multitudes, from all parts of the non-slaveholding States, of all political parties, came together, and seemed to be melted into one by their common zeal against the aggressions of slavery.
But the aggressions which the people were compelled to resist schooled them to a spirit of independence that most naturally led them to establish a separate government.
The continued aggressionsof Great Britain were gradually but surely tending to a declaration of war against the imperial mistress of the sea.
A naval force adequate to the protection of our commerce, always afloat, with an accumulation of the means to give it a rapid extension in case of need, furnishes the power by which all such aggressions may be prevented or repelled.
The most imposing and perplexing of those of the United States upon foreign governments for aggressions upon our citizens were disposed of by my predecessor.
These reprehensible aggressions but retard the true progress of our nation and tarnish its fair fame.
Our relations with the various Indian tribes have been undisturbed since the termination of the difficulties growing out of the hostile aggressions of the Sac and Fox Indians.
I have therefore found it necessary at length to give orders to our troops on that frontier to be in readiness to protect our citizens, and to repel by arms any similar aggressions in future.
Bancroft--Confirms the statement as to the aggressions and pretensions of the Massachusetts Bay Government.
The only way, therefore, was to provoke a war by aggressions on the Roman allies, to be justified by the best pretexts he could find.
Hannibal, it is true, had commenced his aggressions at Saguntum, in Spain.
We have already observed, that, as early as 1806, Mr. Webster had expressed himself in favor of the protection of our commerce against the aggressions of both the belligerents.
The aggressions of the belligerents on our neutral commerce still continued, and, by the joint effect of the Berlin and Milan Decrees and the Orders in Council, it was all but swept from the ocean.
In the first place, privateering is a part of war, or is a part of the preliminary hostile aggressions which are in the nature of a forcible collision between sovereign powers.
It has attempted to secure not only the exclusion of private armed vessels from privateering, but the exclusion of aggressions on the part of public armed vessels of belligerents on private property of all kinds upon the ocean.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aggressions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
