Why did not the Agadir incident bring about a war?
He did his best to bring about a feeling of friendship between the English and the French, and was very successful in doing so.
She was anxious to be quit of the engagement it had been proposed to make between them; and it might be very likely that this girl might be serviceable to her, rather than otherwise, in helping to bring about such a consummation.
That was the mistake, cara mia, to endeavour to bring about an object, by influencing some one who had no power to act for themselves in the matter.
When they had performed this mournful task, they approached the two adversaries in order to make a last effort to bring about a reconciliation.
It was an unheard-of proceeding to seize me by the throat without a declaration of war; but it is a crime against one's own people to bring about a foreign invasion; it is betraying Europe, to draw Asiatic hordes into our combats.
I now turned my mind to an endeavour to wean my brother's affection from Madame de Sauves, in order to counterplot Le Guast in his design to bring about a division, and thereby to effect our ruin.
However, you may rest assured that I shall prevent any further steps from being taken that may prove disagreeable to you, and that I shall use my utmost endeavours to bring about a reconciliation betwixt your brothers.
He made no complaint of his solitude, which indeed he might be said to have helped to bring about by his effective, though speechless, advocacy of Daventry's desire.
And both these women had condemned Rosamund for what she had done, and had begged him to try to bring about a change in her heart.
She had a stupid feeling that nature and man were always in a ferment, that it was utterly useless to wish for peace, or to try to bring about peace, that destinies could only be worked out to their appointed ends in darkness and in fury.
That the shoeing, in removing the counter-pressure of the frog with the ground, is at the same time tending to bring about contraction of the lower portions of the wall at the heels and quarters.
The higher and convex side of the wall; b, the lower and concave side of the wall] Again, we must look to successive parings of the wall of the higher side to bring about a gradual return to the normal.
In each case it wants but the uneven distribution of the body-weight, which, as a matter of fact, some of these conditions themselves give, to bring about a fracture.
The food more prone, perhaps, than any other to bring about an attack is wheat improperly prepared--that is, uncooked or unground.
He saw that the unjust and impolitic measures of the Jesuitical cabal were far more likely to make the penal laws perpetual than to bring about an abolition of the test.
He had sate in the Long Parliament, and had taken part with the Roundheads, but had always been for lenient counsels, and had laboured to bring about a general reconciliation.
In addition to all this, much transpired on the field of battle tending to bring about disaster.
During our stay at Meaux the British Minister Lord Lyons, endeavored tobring about a cessation of hostilities, to this end sending his secretary out from Paris with a letter to Count Bismarck, offering to serve as mediator.
Every man who is not helping to bring about a better state of affairs for the future is helping to perpetuate the present misery, and is therefore the enemy of his own children.
And despicable, because although they saw their children condemned to the same life of degradation, hard labour and privation, yet they refused to help to bring about a better state of affairs.
Revolutionary plot to bring about independence of the Isthmus.
Whether the Germans shall be able to exploit the country, bring about a reaction and restore for a time monarchical institutions depends largely upon the fortunes of the war.
And he saw that she had grasped something of the complications which his course was likely to bring about.
I should not object to change places, and this change it lies with you to bring about.
But the King is a head without arms; the great nobles, who are in the secret of the danger, have no authority over the men whose co-operation is needful in order to bring about a happy result.
If I wished to make Louis unhappy and to bring about a separation, all I need do is to leave the helm in his hands.
The hat, above all, struck me; it is a sort of truncated column, and does not adapt itself in the least to the shape of the head; but I am told it is easier to bring about a revolution than to invent a graceful hat.
October 1534, seemed at once determined tobring about in reality the promised Council.
Luther now, to whom the Elector submitted the Articles which were to bring about an agreement, sent a very calm, clear answer, entering into all the particulars.
Nay, he had once, in his contest with Pope Julius, worked to bring about a general reforming Council.
Before the army took the field, the Emperor endeavoured to bring about an amicable arrangement, by the publication of a manifesto.
Having always maintained a good understanding with his old friend Arnheim, he now made use of him to bring about an alliance with Saxony, by which he hoped to render himself equally formidable to the Emperor and the King of Sweden.
Many causes contributed to bring about a relaxation of discipline in many of the religious orders.
Before I relate what we did in war, let me here state the strange opposition of our ministers in their attempts to bring about peace.
Meanwhile I endeavoured to bring about a reconciliation of the Duc d'Orleans with La Choin; but utterly failed.
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