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Example sentences for "importation agreement"

  • This meeting was held at the Province Arms, the house of George Burns, and here was signed this celebrated non-importation agreement.

  • New York recedes from the non-importation agreement in part.

  • The inhabitants of Charleston went so far as to break off all connexion with Rhode Island and Georgia, which had refused to adopt the non-importation agreement.

  • The burgesses immediately repaired in a body to the Raleigh, and unanimously adopted a non-importation agreement, drawn by George Mason, and presented by George Washington.

  • Mr. Braxton was, in 1769, a delegate and a signer of the non-importation agreement.

  • He well remembered the consequences of the non-importation agreement, and the sufferings of our brave fellow-citizens from that imprudent measure.

  • One of these was John Mein, who played a part in the historic Non-Importation Agreement.

  • The non-intercourse and non-importation agreement of that period, so far from destroying commerce, fostered and encouraged it.

  • The Townshend duties, except those on tea, were repealed in April; but this did not satisfy the colonists, and dissensions arose among the merchants of the several colonies in regard to the non-importation agreement.

  • Added, the declaration of rights, non-importation agreement, and petition of Congress to the King.

  • Footnote 350: "Some time before the proceedings of Congress reached England, it was justly apprehended that the non-importation agreement would be one of the measures they would adopt.

  • A good plan enough for the man of independent fortune, for the judge whose income was assured, or the thrifty merchant who, signing a non-importation agreement, had laid in a stock of goods to be sold at high prices.

  • Therefore, as far as the commodity tea was concerned, the people of the Colonies still observed the non-importation agreement.

  • Although they suffered great inconvenience from their observance of the non-importation agreement, yet they bore it patiently and cheerfully, like men who felt that their cause was just and right.

  • He rigidly observed the non-importation agreement, and was, in fact, one of the first to propose its adoption; and none of the articles therein named were to be seen in his house until the odious burdens laid thereon had been removed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also mentioned; another caste; beholding them; county seat; ever before; held the; her letters; importation agreement; importation agreements; large excess; letters addressed; like enough; many sections; mile farther; personal knowledge; poor thing; real gold; several islands; shall receive the gift; shall write; tepid water; treated like; will put