Then there are also some of our own people, who have taken up arms against us, and if matters go on as at present there will shortly be more Africanders fighting against us than for us.
They are lost to us, but we have not lost them on the battlefield, for they sit amongst the enemy, and many of them are even in arms against us.
We have some thousands of our own people, who are inarms against us.
You are not deliberating concerning war, conscript fathers, for though it is in your power to declare war, it is not in your power to wage it, as not a single Rhodian will take up arms against you.
In Herodotus, as in Nicolaus, the Lydians take up arms against Gyges; in both the decision which follows is due to the oracle of the god.
On the gratitude of Sparta we have a special claim, for in the day of her direst extremity, after the earthquake, when the Helots were in arms against her, we sent a third part of our citizens to her aid.
The Megarians had by their own free choice been admitted into the Athenian alliance, and in an hour of great peril to Athens, without shadow of pretext they had risen in arms against her.
Was it possible that a favoured and privileged ally had taken up arms against them in the hour of their distress?
So long as the Parthians, Hyrcanians, Armenians, were independent or in arms against Cyrus, the Medes must be strongly tempted to recover their lost dominion.
It seems more certain that Cambyses was still alive, than that the Persians took up arms against Astyages at the instigation of Cyrus, who was, as we have remarked, at that time in his fortieth year.
Europe in Arms Against Napoleon=] Prussia was the first to break the bonds of alliance with France, to ally itself with Russia, and to call its people to arms against their oppressor.
They had no sooner gone than the Mexicans were in arms against Maximilian, and his rash determination to remain quickly led to his capture and execution as a usurper.
Whoever takes uparms against another, although he has not yet struck, must be considered as the aggressor, and not he who tries to prevent the blow.
We have never threatened the Orange Free State; it has no grievance, no cause of quarrel, yet suddenly it appears in arms against us.
Should any one among you take up arms against another, rise ye all against him, for this is naught but manifest justice.
His specific command to the kings of the earth is: “Should any one among you take up arms against another, rise ye all against him, for this is naught but manifest justice.
Should any king take up arms against another, all should unitedly arise and prevent him.
They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her--and that, not by indirection, but by direct suggestion from the Foreign Office in Berlin.
The fugitive eyed the law-abiding man attentively for a moment, and then exclaimed, "Take up arms against my country?
The negroes are the only persons in those States who have not been in arms against us.
And, now that I am making my escape, you feel afraid if I reach Canada, and there should be war with England, that I will take up arms against my country.
The people of France, in arms against tyranny, is bending its broad back before the most cruel, the most absolute and brutish slave-driving ever exercised over mankind.
A slight difference was made at first between the diet of a family which had surrendered and of that the head of which was still in arms against us.
Such were the influences which induced the Free State to make an insane treaty, compelling it to wantonly take uparms against a State which had never injured it and which bore it nothing but good will.
We took uparms against injustice, tyranny, and oppression; and the king had previously taken up arms against us.
Provoked by his exactions, and his attempts at despotism, the people o' England had taken up arms against him.
But, even allowing that it were, I deny that I hae taken up arms against my king, or that I am a rebellious subject.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arms against" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
