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Example sentences for "bringing about"

  • Excessive paring of the bars, to which we have already partly alluded, is also an active agent in bringing about an inward growth of the horn of the heels and quarters.

  • They are apt to be allowed to get extremely dirty, and so, by carrying infective matter from the foot of one animal to that of another, undo the good that the warmth of the poultice is bringing about.

  • This is the only sensible way of bringing about reduction in weight.

  • I lost no time in bringing about a private interview with her, in which I entreated her to keep the matter secret, stating that a short time would enable me to bring her sister with eclat into public life.

  • They are not results which any one who wishes well to Montefiano cares to contemplate, and certainly not results which I, a priest, can assist in bringing about.

  • It was more than probable that Monsieur l'Abbe Roux, in bringing about Fontana's dismissal, had committed an impolitic act.

  • They tell us that they see a progressive danger of bringing about emancipation.

  • A sixth reason why the South will not dissolve the Union, is found in the difficulty of bringing about an actual separation.

  • From now until 1866 his whole policy was ceaselessly devoted to bringing about such a disposition of the forces of Europe that Austria might be left without allies and Prussia be able to regain the upper hand in German affairs.

  • It is improbable that he intended to use it as a means of bringing about a war with France.

  • An old project was now revived for bringing about a marriage between the Princess Victoria of Prussia and Prince Alexander of Battenberg.

  • We can well believe that Bismarck, in the excitement of the moment, spoke with an openness to which the Czar was not accustomed; he succeeded, however, in bringing about a tolerable understanding.

  • He acquired the credit, after the death of Meton, the ruler of Agrigentum, of bringing about a free constitution and equal rights to all citizens.

  • At last, that is to say, in the spring of the following year, the King made severe rules, with the object of bringing about a reform in this particular.

  • The King put him off with fine speeches, and by appointing him to take part in a commission then sitting for the purpose of bringing about a reduction in the price of corn in Paris and the suburbs, where it had become very dear.

  • If he still cherished hopes of bringing about a peace between the king and people which might enable him to enlist England in the Grand Alliance, they vanished in 1687 before the Declaration of Indulgence.

  • It was in direct negotiation and co-operation with Lewis that he aimed at bringing about a peaceful settlement of the question which threatened Europe with war.

  • We shall hardly need any assistance from the good Joffe, I fancy, in bringing about a revolution among ourselves; the people will manage that, if the Entente persist in refusing to come to terms.

  • But in particular I should point out that the Archduke Frederick confined his activity solely to the task of bringing about peace.

  • In Australia, as we have seen, the change from matria to patria potestas had but little influence in bringing about a change in the rule of descent.

  • Footnote 377: "General Dix disapproved of the design to make separate nominations, thinking it unwise, and foreseeing that it would increase the difficulty of bringing about a reconciliation.

  • There was no prospect of further territory in Equatorial Africa, and the hope of bringing about a closer union with the South African Republic was not fulfilled.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about midnight; bringing about; bringing forth; bringing them; coal merchant; face full; general education; get the; good fishing; good spoonful; great deeds; human prudence; inch plank; lighted match; lying back; moral power; one must; provide against; raising money; seven pounds; sound principles; thou speakest; uncut edges; will introduce