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Example sentences for "electorate"

Lexicographically close words:
electioneering; elections; elective; electives; electoral; electorates; electors; electric; electrical; electrically
  1. Mellon and how much of it is Pittsburg, how much of it Frick, how much of it brother Mellon, an electorate seeking a business man for office can not stop to inquire and can not learn if it does inquire.

  2. His records of the Kansas electorate are more important to him than principles, policies, or morals.

  3. In 1854, shortly after his arrival in Victoria, he was appointed a nominee member of the Legislative Council, and in the first Legislative Assembly under the new constitution was returned for the electorate of the Wimmera.

  4. His methods cannot always be defended, and were explained by himself only on grounds of necessity and the character of the electorate with which he had to deal.

  5. The North of Germany, including even the King's electorate of Hanover, had been driven to enter into a neutrality.

  6. He began life as a soldier in the imperial service, but on the elevation of his friend Maximilian Henry of Bavaria to the electorate of Cologne in 1650, he went to his court and embraced the ecclesiastical career.

  7. I cannot believe that we are justifies in annexing to Austria an electorate which, not being ours by indisputable right of inheritance, may be the cause of involving us in a bloody war.

  8. This measure, therefore, is not practicable in the present conjuncture; that electorate cannot hazard its own security in these precarious circumstances, by lending out so great a body of its troops.

  9. But the representatives of the workers when chosen out of the midst of the working electorate might still receive daily pay and defrayment of travelling expenses.

  10. This Prince had likewise objected to Her Majesty's expedient of suffering the Elector of Bavaria to retain Luxembourg, under certain conditions, by way of security, until his electorate were restored.

  11. How comes it to pass that the Electorate of Hanover is become all of a sudden one of the most inconsiderable provinces of the empire?

  12. When by the recess of 1803 the territories of the electorate on the left of the Rhine were given over to France and those on the right secularized, the electoral rank was abolished.

  13. During the Thirty Years' War the enlarged electorate took little part in affairs, but suffered much from the ravages of the conflict.

  14. Lastly, by the cession of the Palatine Electorate to Bavaria, the Roman Catholic religion would obtain a decisive preponderance in the Electoral College, and secure a permanent triumph in Germany.

  15. International affairs, monetary systems, the best way of raising taxes, and similar problems, often divide the male electorate pretty evenly into rival parties.

  16. The first effect of woman's participation would probably be to lower the efficiency of the electorate in some directions; but they are starting much farther along than men began, and they would learn more rapidly than men have learned.

  17. The inhabitants of the electorate were about equally divided on the question, and Ernest, supported by Spanish troops, was too strong for Gebhard.

  18. The electorate was soon completely in the possession of Ernest, and the defeat of Gebhard was a serious blow to Protestantism, and marks a stage in the history of the Reformation.

  19. The proceedings on the introduction of the innovations in other districts were similar to those in the Electorate of Saxony.

  20. Proceedings at Wittenberg, in the Saxon Electorate and in the free Imperial city of Nuremberg.

  21. As time went on Luther demanded the exercise of such coercion, and it was actually introduced in the Electorate and, later, in the Protestant Duchy of Saxony.

  22. Nevertheless, it is easy to trace a persistent effort throughout the correspondence, to secure in the Saxon Electorate toleration both for the new teaching and its originator without arousing the misgivings of a prudent sovereign.

  23. Accession to the Pontificate, appointed for his Successor Schorror, Bishop of Helenopolis, a Native of Bonn, in the Electorate of Cologne; a Prelate as amiable as venerable.

  24. This City is the Capital of the Dutchy from whence it has its Name, which formerly made a Part of Silesia, but is now annex'd to the Electorate of Brandenburgh.

  25. The Velt-Marshal the Count de Wackerbarth being dead, the Elector nam'd this Prince Generalissimo of the Troops of the Electorate in 1734.

  26. Perhaps I have dwelt too long upon the Metropolis of the Electorate of Brandenburgh; but I thought that as there had been no true Account yet given of this City, you wou'd not be sorry to have it from me.

  27. There are the like Posts at the Gates of all the Towns, and even at the Villages in the Electorate of Saxony.

  28. The Duke of Weimar's Name is Ernest-Augustus: He is the eldest of the Ernestine Branch which lost the Electorate when Charles V.

  29. It was till 1866 a landgraviate and electorate of Germany, consisting of several detached masses of territory, to the N.

  30. Educated for the Church, he became elector and archbishop in 1515, and ruled his electorate with vigour and intelligence, taking up at first an attitude of hostility towards the reformers and their teaching.

  31. His conversion was hailed with great joy by the Protestants, and the league of Schmalkalden declared they were resolved to defend him; but the Reformation in the electorate received checks from the victory of Charles V.

  32. Conservatives and moderate Liberals objected to the immense addition to the electorate which would be caused by adult suffrage.

  33. Before 1867 the total electorate only numbered a little over one million voters.

  34. Frankfort, which was followed by that of his death, and the order for a general mourning throughout the Electorate and a desistance from every kind of music on the following days.

  35. Never in the history of American "uplift" had an electorate been in this manner wooed!

  36. He went on to explain that he wasn't referring now to that part of the electorate known as the labour element, the men who worked with their hands in mills, factories, etc.

  37. It's just the trouble with so much of our electorate to-day--unreasoning acceptance without thought.

  38. No democratic nonsense about leaving the choice to an electorate that did not know what it wanted.

  39. Such an electorate deserved to be led around by the nose by the Jasons and Dickinsons, the Gorses and the Griersons and the Parets.

  40. For some time elements of corruption have been growing up in English politics, which it will be one of the first duties of the electorate and of a new and reformed Parliament to get rid of.

  41. The influence of the extension of the electorate will, in all likelihood, be against rather than in favour of economy.

  42. Nor did the electorate of Saxony suffer under his hands.

  43. Maurice began to fear that his new-won Electorate might be torn from him either by the Emperor, or by the Protestant Princes.

  44. It was not until Maurice had received a definite promise of the Electorate that, on October 27, he declared himself.

  45. By two treaties (February and May, 1551), the Princes agreed to unite in common defence of the Protestant religion and the liberties of Germany, and Maurice was secured in his Electorate against all claims of the Ernestine branch.

  46. In the autumn of 1784 a plan for exchanging the distant Belgian Netherlands for the contiguous Electorate of Bavaria was beginning to exercise his thoughts and diplomacy.

  47. The electorate was stimulated with excitement and enthusiasm over false issues and dominated candidates.

  48. These funds were employed in corrupting the electorate and legislative bodies.

  49. He had received supplies from Lewis to send an English fleet to the coast of Holland; and was at this moment supporting at Rome the French side in the quarrel over the Electorate of Cologne, a quarrel which rendered war inevitable.

  50. George was not only King of England; he was Elector of Hanover; and in his own mind he cared far more for the interests of his Electorate than for the interests of his kingdom.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "electorate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    archbishopric; bailiwick; bishopric; borough; canton; city; commune; constituency; county; diocese; district; duchy; electorate; government; hamlet; hundred; magistracy; metropolis; parish; precinct; principality; province; region; riding; shire; stake; state; territory; town; township; village; ward