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Example sentences for "foreign power"

  • It is, for instance, Austria-Hungary which concludes an international treaty of extradition between Hungary and a foreign Power.

  • The second case is that of the administration of a piece of territory by a foreign Power, with the consent of the owner-State.

  • On the other hand, they cannot make war separately against a foreign Power, nor can war be made against one of them separately.

  • Unarmed recognition is where a foreign power acknowledges in some pacific form the independence of a colony or province against the claim of its original government.

  • But the question arises, At what time and under what circumstances can this recognition be made by a foreign power?

  • It is where a foreign power undertakes to acknowledge the independence of a colony or province renouncing its original allegiance, and it may be compendiously called Intervention by Recognition.

  • What a prospect for loans when at war with a foreign power, and the subjects of that power large owners of the bank here, from which alone, or from banks liable to be destroyed by it, we can obtain money to carry on the war!

  • Was there to be no advantageous commercial treaty obtained from any foreign power, unless the measures needful to compel it could gain the assent of two thirds of Congress?

  • Agreements by, with another State or foreign power, 371.

  • To admit, then, a right in the House of Representatives to demand and to have as a matter of course all the papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power would be to establish a dangerous precedent.

  • Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.

  • The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

  • Especially, one who, in times of persecution or political commotion, flees to a foreign power or country for safety; as, the French refugees who left France after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.

  • No State shall send or receive an embassy or enter into a treaty with a foreign power.

  • Nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States or any State accept any present, emolument, office, or title from a foreign power.

  • All their resources were again spent, and still no foreign power interfered.

  • She had hitherto hesitated to have recourse to a foreign power, as her treasury was exhausted, and former experiences had not been of the most encouraging kind.

  • The peace had taken the sword out of his hand; the island, ravaged and desolate from end to end, could not venture a new struggle on its own resources--a new war needed fresh support from a foreign power.

  • The Civil War in Chili=] A period of more than thirty years now elapsed before any serious difficulty occurred with a foreign power.

  • Seventeen years after the close of the trouble with Algiers, in 1832, one of the most interesting cases of difficulty with a foreign power arose.

  • And if the Confederate States is not a foreign power, within the construction and meaning of the Act of 1790, then there is no violation of that statute by Capt.

  • If they make out that the Confederate States is a foreign power, it is because it is a Government in existence; and if it be a Government in existence, then its commission must be recognized by the law of nations.

  • This, it has been said, was at all events an acquisition to the Confederacy by compact with a foreign power.

  • Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power which, by express stipulations, ought long since to have been surrendered?

  • We have already experienced its utility against the attacks of a foreign power.

  • The authority of the pope in a secular kingdom, the legate said, was no more a foreign power than "the authority of the soul of man coming from heaven in the body generate on earth.

  • They detested, as cordially as the Protestants, the interference of a foreign power, whether secular or spiritual, with English liberty.

  • The occupation of a French fortress by a foreign power was a perpetual insult to the national pride; it was a memorial of evil times; while it gave England inconvenient authority in the "narrow seas.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    binding posts; false claim; foreign articles; foreign assistance; foreign bills; foreign birth; foreign capital; foreign commerce; foreign country; foreign goods; foreign government; foreign immigration; foreign minister; foreign missionary; foreign nation; foreign nations; foreign parentage; foreign pollen; foreign relations; foreign service; foreign ships; foreign stamps; foreign state; kill time; make resistance; vast mass