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Example sentences for "entangling"

Lexicographically close words:
entangle; entangled; entanglement; entanglements; entangles; entasis; ente; entelechy; entend; entendant
  1. Hume and Spinoza are the only pre-Kantian thinkers of whose position the last statement is not strictly descriptive, but even they failed to escape its entangling influence.

  2. The other parts of the Critique reveal the Critical doctrines only as gradually emerging from the entangling influence of pre-Critical assumptions.

  3. Jefferson said: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

  4. As such we may often kindly mediate in their behalf without entangling ourselves in foreign wars or unnecessary controversies.

  5. Friendly relations with all, but entangling alliances with none," has long been a maxim with us.

  6. There is no entangling alliance in a concert of power.

  7. He tried to show that the proposed joint declaration would not conflict with the American policy of avoiding entangling alliances, for the question at issue was American as much as European, if not more.

  8. The participation of the United States in the League of Nations would, if that League be considered an entangling alliance, be a departure from the policy of isolation but not a violation of the Monroe Doctrine.

  9. He declared that he felt it in his bones they would be awakened by a screaming and scolding, to find poor old Link dangling in mid-air, gripped by the hind leg in one of those entangling nooses.

  10. Bandy-legs skipped about in a lively fashion, trying to keep himself away from "entangling alliances" with those shiny white teeth.

  11. Not only were we facing problems the war directly presented, but other nations seemed to think that we were about to cast aside the advice of Washington concerning entangling alliances, and establish the relation of an ally with Great Britain.

  12. They will tend powerfully to preserve us from foreign collisions, and to enable us to pursue uninterruptedly our cherished policy of "peace with all nations, entangling alliances with none.

  13. The first President of the United States warned us against entangling foreign alliances.

  14. The wise theory of this Government, so early adopted and steadily pursued, of avoiding all entangling alliances has hitherto exempted it from many complications in which it would otherwise have become involved.

  15. We have remained faithful to the precept of avoiding entangling alliances as to affairs not of our direct concern.

  16. Without one entangling alliance, our friendship is prized by every nation, and the rights of our citizens are everywhere respected, because they are known to be guarded by a united, sensitive, and watchful people.

  17. It contracts no entangling alliances with any sect of theorists, dreamers, or philosophers.

  18. Then the god, who was present in the form of an ascetic, awoke from his trance, and consumed all their entangling webs with the fire of knowledge.

  19. As to our foreign policy generally, he says he is willing to leave it where Washington placed it, on the sage maxim, "Peace with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

  20. We should be doing the most patriotic thing possible; for the very essence of the act would be to protect ourselves from the possibility of being drawn into “entangling alliances” with Europe.

  21. World federation is the guaranty against the formation of “entangling alliances” on the part of the United States.

  22. In the United States a great deal has been said about “entangling alliances.

  23. It had no entangling ties--it had no seeds of desire and action planted in previous lives, which were pressing forward toward expression in His life.

  24. For, as the mystic teachings show, Jesus was a pure Spirit, free from the entangling desires and clogging Karma of the world.

  25. But Isaiah stood firm in the position he had taken with Jotham against entangling alliances.

  26. He wanted to create a public opinion in favor of peace and in opposition to entangling alliances, either with Assyria or with the Palestinian coalition.

  27. He felt that he was entangling his feet in a skein that might at any time tighten and overthrow him.

  28. For defensive purposes it may become of the very first importance that the whole English-speaking world should stand together--not in entangling alliance, but with a much clearer understanding than we have ever yet had.

  29. Behind these men walks the Napoleonic ambition all the time, just as in the United States we lie down every night in George Washington's feather-bed of no entangling alliances.

  30. And yet some hundreds of fair white bosoms furnished a morning banquet to the fishes, before Scherazaide the Wise succeeded in entangling the Sultan in the meshes of her golden speech!

  31. Knowing that our chance of food for the day depended on success, I warily approached, and then charged, and to my delight succeeded in entangling one with the bolas.

  32. He did not wait in ante-chambers or sit at wedding feasts; but severing all entangling and intricate threads of observance, followed the voice which called him to solitary places of illimitable prospect.

  33. You are on the point of entangling yourself.

  34. Speaking of scenes, I will tell you confidentially that papa is jealous of you and makes scenes with me, too; he says that I am entangling myself with you.


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