Dissensions among the citizens, or between the nobles and the bourgeois, frequently ended in the adoption of a podestat.
Elsewhere the presence of large numbers of turbulent country nobles furnished the first germ for the unending dissensions which ruined such promising beginnings.
Family feeling, especially maternal affection, is strong; but pettydissensions are common save when internal peace is constrained by external strife.
So long as the Ostrogothic hero lived, Thuringia was safe under his protection, but soon after his death dissensions arose between Franks and Thuringians; a claim of payment was made for the ill-requited services of the former.
After some domestic dissensions and bloodshed, the leadership of his band passed to his son Recitach, apparently a hot-tempered and tyrannical youth.
The bitter dissensions which racial and linguistic differences have made in the Church of every age are here depicted in miniature.
The Eastern empire at Constantinople had been weakened by bitter theological dissensions and heresies among the Christians; the votaries of the new, simple, unswerving faith of Mohammed were ardent and unanimous.
Thou seemest bewildered and amazed, my son: thou hast heard that I seek to conquer Granada by dissensions among the Moors; when Granada is conquered, remember that the nobles themselves are at Granada.
There had been dissensions in the garrison, and the soldiers clamoured for pay and refused to fight, but whispers of darker treachery were abroad.
Dissensions arose amongst the chiefs, and the best of them went back to Greece to urge the carrying of the war into the continental provinces of Turkey.
It appears not to me, that their dissensions had any influence on their conduct in the day of battle.
According to the former, the envy of the nobles towards Wallace, and the dissensions incident thereto, were the chief, if not the sole occasion of the disaster.
What dissensions may have prevailed among the Scottish commanders, it is impossible to know.
The dissensions and rivalries of the Federal leaders added to their discomfiture.
While the grass was growing tall and rank on Chastelâr’s grave, the beauty that had bewildered and destroyed him was unconsciously sowing dissensions and intrigues in half the courts of Europe.
They are thronging round her now, for the dissensions which shall mar her unhappy reign are as yet only in the bud.
But the carrying out of reforms led at once to dissensions with the civil power, the starting-point being the attack upon simony.
In 105 they returned to the attack under their king Boiorix, and favoured by the dissensions of the Roman commanders Gnaeus Mallius Maximus and Caepio, defeated them in detail and annihilated their armies at Arausio (Orange).
On the outbreak of the war of 1866 he resumed command of an army corps, butdissensions between him and La Marmora prejudiced the issue of the campaign and contributed to the defeat of Custozza.
Yet this great victory was absolutely fruitless, owing to the domestic dissensions which prevailed in Poland during the following five years.
Fortune seemed to favor him in the dissensions which arose.
Offa, doubtless well acquainted with the civil dissensions by which it was rent asunder, attacked it, as his uncle Penda had done beforetime; what advantages he gained, are not recorded.
This gives but a faint idea of the embarrassments and dissensions among Lincoln's friends and official advisers, and of the ceaseless efforts and infinite tact that were needed to maintain a decent degree of harmony among them.
Out of a written formula, which they had brought from home with them, they pronounced as their deliverance and award, that if the dissensions among them were not quieted in the course of two months, Farel should depart.
In other respects, there is nothing they more desire than to pacify all these dissensions without riotous disorder, and they entertain a just horror of war, as the certain destruction of their country.
We have already in some measure succeeded in what we sought to attain as a principal object, the quieting of those dissensions among brethren which are the worst of all, and which rend asunder the churches.
This lady, too, records the great dissensions that raged among critics with respect to his merits.
Each side to the quarrel insists that the other side is committing a crime in refusing to compete, and our whole social life is rent with dissensions over this issue.
This intelligence he regarded as of the utmost importance, for he remembered the use which Cortes had made of similar dissensions among the tribes of Anahuac.
Peru was not yet torn asunder by the dissensions of rival candidates for the throne; and, united and strong under the sceptre of a warlike monarch, she might well have bid defiance to all the forces that Pizarro could muster.
This war had forced Elizabeth to take a side in the internal religious dissensions of the country.
At the same time violent dissensions broke out as to whether an attempt should or should not be made to bring the war with Spain to a close.
It was one of James's ambitions on his coming to England to put an end to the feuds and dissensions which were rife among the great families.
Now it happened that there were great dissensions among the officers and nobles of the court at this time.
He called together the leading nobles on each side, that had taken part in this quarrel, and then, by great exertion, went in among them, and urged them to forget their dissensions and become reconciled to each other.
The dissensions between all these contending forces were reflected in the minds of the men, and hastened the ruin of the Army.
Some, however, became too familiar with the men, were too lenient and even encouraged internal dissensions amongst the men.
As the true aspect of Bolshevism gradually revealed itself these dissensions deepened, and were not limited to the Social Democratic programme or to party tactics.
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