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Example sentences for "equal terms"

  • The earls, and those whose business it was to speak of such matters, at first, tried if he would allow of the king and himself being liberated on equal terms.

  • At last the affair was thus decided: that the king and himself should be liberated on equal terms; no condition being proposed, except that each might defend his party, to the utmost of his abilities, as before.

  • How can I think of you as being on equal terms with me?

  • If my mind could put you on equal terms with me, you could not be yourself.

  • Starting on equal terms, I want to put before you how you have shown your gratitude to me, for doing all I could to further your wishes with reference to my sister.

  • General Grant adopted the plan of moving by his left flank, with the purpose of compelling Lee to come out from behind his intrenchments along Mine Run and fight on equal terms.

  • Had that enemy come out on equal terms, those brigades would have shown their mettle, which has been tried more than once before and stood the test of fire.

  • With the exception of her brief acquaintance with Windebank, she had never before enjoyed the society of a man, who was a gentleman, on equal terms.

  • Devitts were pining to meet on equal terms).

  • The six series of observed values were made comparable on equal terms by first reducing them to a uniform PE and then by assigning to M, the point of departure, the value of 0.

  • Then observation and calculation may be compared on equal terms.

  • The alliance was on equal terms, defining the frontier, and providing for the mutual extradition of refugees, and it was ratified by the marriage of Ramses with the daughter of the Hittite King.

  • As Egypt declined, the power of the Hittites evidently increased, for when we next meet with them it is contending on equal terms in Palestine with the revival of the military power of Egypt under Ramses I.

  • But now the very atmosphere was changed, and he was sure that when they met again he could make her understand him, and that they would be able to speak on equal terms.

  • You must be able to meet him on equal terms.

  • The Russian factories had worked miracles, and now the Tsar's armies were able to meet the enemy on equal terms.

  • By September 1915 the Russians had managed to provide themselves with sufficient artillery and ammunition to meet the Germans on equal terms.

  • One contention was that the canal should be made neutral, open to the ships of all nations, including the United States, on equal terms even in case of war between the United States and any other country.

  • He also planned to meet the invaders on equal terms by training his warriors to fight on horseback.

  • At length their fleets met those of the Saracens on equal terms, and defeated them, and gradually wrested from them the control of the Mediterranean.

  • He was ready, he said, to be the friend of Alexius on equal terms; but he would not declare himself to be his man.

  • His intellect remained unclouded to the end.

  • While what I have just described was taking place, I myself was with General Wilson.

  • I had been placed under the orders of Taylor, Baird-Smith's indefatigable Lieutenant, who directed the advance towards the Lahore gate.

  • There was another jhil to our left front, but at some little distance off, and our only chance seemed to be in riding hard enough to get round the enemy's flank before they could get close enough to this jhil to stop us.

  • That year the Hernici were defeated; they came off with respect to the Volscians on equal terms.

  • For then, as we should have recollected that we entered into friendship on equal terms, we might be equally friendly as now, but less submissive and compliant with your wishes.

  • One who is not prepared to cope with him on equal terms, or with a cause so strong that it overcomes the intellectual handicap, will find it prudent not to enter the lists with him.

  • Yet, despite all his initiative, aggressiveness and combativeness with respect to those who can meet him upon equal terms, he is tenderness and generosity itself to the weak, the helpless and the dependent.

  • Any two colours which meet on equal terms to make white are called complementary colours.

  • There is, then, a great difference between the mixing of colours, which evokes any tendency to antagonism, and the adding of colours under such conditions that they meet on equal terms.

  • Because they meet on equal terms, and as no one of them is in a point of advantage no prisoners can be made and they must work in harmony.

  • He shot as well as the best of them; he rode as far; he never complained of food or tasks or hardship; he met every one on equal terms.

  • Now we do know their use and have them, and in battle we can meet the white man on equal terms, be he English or French.

  • He felt himself very much of a gentleman, very much of a chevalier, fit to talk on equal terms with St. Luc, de Galisonnière or the best French officer of them all.


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