The Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses remained in nearly continuous session for over three years "watching the White House.
Originally the Republican Congressesdealt liberally with the South in the matter of compensation for damages inflicted upon its loyal citizens during the rebellion.
Congresses were assembled and dissolved; treaties made and violated; alliances formed and broken.
At lengthcongresses of the belligerent powers were assembled in two important towns of Westphalia, Osnabruck and Munster.
As such he presided during the last session of the forty-fourth Congress, and during the two Congresses immediately succeeding.
The evidence of his ability as a lawyer is to be found in the satisfactory manner in which for three Congresses he discharged the duties of the trying position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives.
Blaine, who had been Speaker during the three Congresses immediately preceding.
Those admitted to the International Socialist Congresses are: "1.
Against war and duelling the congresses of the two hemispheres vote in vain.
And the scientists, the essayists, and the promoters of congresses take the same view.
It is odd that people meet in congresses and hold forth as to the best method of catching birds by putting salt on their tails, although they must know that this can never be done!
If a legislature could not in this respect control the successive legislatures of its own State, could it control the successive Congresses of the United States?
We quote from the close of Mr. Wilson's book the summary of what was done by these Congresses in the way of reform legislation.
The noble men of America who have just consummated in the 37th and 38th Congresses the sublimest national and moral reform the world ever saw, are the spiritual children of the pilgrim fathers.
There is something sublime in the history of the movements of the 37th and 38th Congresses of the United States.
For nearly forty years the idea of the Holy Alliance, the Concert of Europe which arose out of it, and the series of congresses and conferences that succeeded the concert, kept an insecure peace in war-exhausted Europe.
You hear it in the loud, clear, but more restrained tones of Congresses and Conferences.
This, together with the various Pan-American congresses that have been held, points to a real open 'foreign policy' of alliance and mutual help throughout America.
The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
We must prevent each of these things being done by either congresses or courts.
The proceedings of the congressesappear as substantial volumes.
This matter has from time to time already been brought before international labour congresses, and those who attend such congresses have doubtless had occasion to realize how essential it is.
I have already observed how large and active these congresses were.
Perhaps it is a chief factor in the comparative failure of such congresses hitherto.
Much was said in the medical congresses of the medico-pedagogic method for the treatment and education of the feeble minded, and I expressed my differing opinion in an address on Moral Education at the Pedagogical Congress of Turin in 1898.
It would not be amiss for our national race congresses and conventions to scatter broadcast and thickly over the whole land literature to this effect.
And so the association is working vigorously to establish mothers' congresses on a small scale, wherever our women can be reached.
Science has convened Congressesin Italy, Germany, and England.
Our committee suggests that a separate committee be formed to take these congresses and other women's organizations in hand and make it their duty to arrange for dates.
The matter was then considered of sending several members of the board of lady managers abroad to exploit woman's work and to excite an interest in woman's congresses throughout the world.
In the evening a reception was given at the St. Louis Club in honor of the diplomatic corps, and a banquet was tendered to visiting journalists in the Hall of Congresses on the exposition grounds.
We would also suggest that a local committee of leading club women of the city of St. Louis be appointed to act in harmony and in unison with this committee of congresses from the board of lady managers.
Several subjects were brought up by members of the committee on woman's work, such as the organizations of the country, the congresses at this exposition, the dates of meetings, and provision for the care of the women in attendance.
The delegates will be selected and all expenses paid from their homes and return, and whatever product of their thought they present here at these congresses will be bound and fixed in type.
Up to this time it had been hoped that it would be possible to inaugurate a series of meetings of women's associations which would be congresses in more than name.
She stayed on in Chicago for much of the summer and fall, for she was in demand as a speaker at several of the worldcongresses and had five speeches to read for Mrs. Stanton, who felt unable to brave the heat and the crowds.
Most of you who were Members of those Congresses voted to pass most of those measures.
The 88th and the 89th Congressespassed more social and economic legislation than any two single Congresses in American history.
In the European congresses which have assembled from time to time to deal with peculiar exigencies, we have the precedent for such more regular and permanent institutions.
The tendency toward this demographic law of interdependence of States is shown by the large number of international organizations such as congresses or conferences which are held from time to time in different countries of the world.
In short, international conferences and congressesact like legislatures between nations.
In following the present peace conference and comparing it with the peace congress of Westphalia, it may be well to mention a few of the principles of such congresses in general.
Members of congresses have been known to vote for things that they did not understand, to the great disadvantage of their own country, due mainly to inexperience and lack of familiarity with the language spoken in the congress.
The habit of holding conferences or congresses would get the people to expect international government and insist on it, and any country would hesitate long before refusing to agree to a conference.
Irregular congresses and conventions took their place, and all the colonies but Georgia somehow chose delegates.
Two Congresses had gone through their work, and had accustomed the people to a national legislature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
