The Protestants ingeneral were alarmed, and filled with the most gloomy apprehensions from the bloody and persecuting spirit of the Popish faction.
When the States-General were convened by Louis XVI.
Indeed, while the elections for the States-General were going on, he appears to have been almost as much interested in finding out the fair author of an anonymous billet-doux as in unravelling the politics of the day.
Throughout the latter part of the period of savagery, and the entire period of barbarism, mankind ingeneral were organized in gentes, phratries and tribes.
The Hellenes ingeneral were in fragmentary tribes, presenting the same characteristics in their form of government as the barbarous tribes in general, when organized in gentes and in the same stage of advancement.
In fact, he asked so many things that the Consuls-General were at their wits' end to know what to do.
At seven in the evening all the Consuls-General were warned to withdraw their subjects.
In Cairo a meeting was held at which the Khedive, Dervish Pasha, the Ministers, and the Consuls-General were present.
On the contrary, the ships in general were navigated by their own officers and almost without accident.
The whigs in general were disgusted at this interposition; and the earl of Shrewsbury, who had interested himself warmly in behalf of the bill, resented it so deeply that he insisted on resigning his office of secretary of state.
The States-General were sovereign, and the Advocate and the States-General were one.
The States- General were sovereign, and Maurice bowed to their authority.
In the absence of any lawful government, the States-General were summoned to meet at Brussels on September 22.
The States-General were eager to confer large powers upon him.
Meanwhile French diplomacy was busy at Amsterdam and elsewhere in the States, working against the war parties; and by the offer of favourable terms the States-General were induced to ask for a truce of six weeks.
The experiment was not a success and the Postmasters-General were at their wits' end to know what to do to save the revenue which was being diverted to the pockets of the country postmasters.
The Postmasters-General were directed to cause surveys to be made and maps drawn of those roads in Ireland over which the mail passed.
The changes in business regulations were as follows: The Postmasters-General were no longer to include legal charges, chaise hire, and pensions under the head of dead letters.
The Postmasters-General were henceforth to act under the Lords of the Treasury.
How little the postmasters-general were left to act on their own responsibility will best be shewn by examples.
On one point the postmasters-general were determined, that the penny post office should not be let out to farm.
A secret no doubt there was; but, profoundly dissatisfied as the postmasters-general were, no suspicion appears to have crossed their minds that the packet boats were engaged in other and more exciting pursuits than the transport of mails.
They well knew that if the States-General were assembled, themselves must fall; and as the King had not mentioned any time, they hit on a project calculated to elude, without appearing to oppose.
The States-General were to meet at Versailles in April 1789, but did not assemble till May.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
