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Example sentences for "insurrectionary"

Lexicographically close words:
insurgents; insuring; insurmountable; insurrection; insurrectional; insurrectionist; insurrectionists; insurrections; insurrecto; insurrectos
  1. We find no traces of his activity in the two great insurrectionary events of 1789--the fall of the Bastille, and the forcible removal of the court from Versailles to the Tuileries.

  2. The execution of the Hebertists was the first victory of the revolutionary government over the extreme insurrectionary party.

  3. This sudden rise from the subordinate office which he had held in the commune is a proof of the impression that his character had made on the insurrectionary party.

  4. His distinction was that he accepted the insurrectionary forces, instead of blindly denouncing them as the Girondins had done.

  5. Yet in fact Danton saw much more clearly than they saw how urgent it was to soothe the insurrectionary spirit, after it had done the work of abolition which to him, as to them too, seemed necessary and indispensable.

  6. Ten Spanish priests, driven from the mission of the Philippines by the insurrectionary movement, arrived in San Francisco on the 5th of January by the Pacific Mail steamer Doric.

  7. It was represented by the Spanish authorities, who at the time controlled the news, as of no moment,--an insurrectionary movement that they could easily cope with.

  8. They "sent members to their Congress at Montgomery, and finally permitted the insurrectionary government to be transferred to their Capitol at Richmond.

  9. From Vicksburg to Chattanooga the army was under command of General Grant, but the entire march of the same body of troops must have exceeded two thousand miles through the very heart of the insurrectionary country.

  10. The "Act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes" was on the calendar of the Senate when the disaster at Bull Run occurred, and had been under consideration the day preceding the battle.

  11. The formidable petitioners laughed at both proposals, and poured through the hall, shaking in triumph their insurrectionary weapons.

  12. The remains of the insurrectionary army are collected in the forest of Touvois under command of the Marquis de Souday.

  13. Mazzini, though he promised that he would not again encourage an insurrectionary movement, unless it started inside the country and independently of the exiles, argued that insurrection was the only means to rouse the masses.

  14. That his presence on the borders of Afghanistan encouraged his countrymen in their career of hostility is not to be doubted; but there is little or no evidence to connect him more palpably with the earlier movements of the insurrectionary war.

  15. But at the same time he wrote to Rawlinson, that he did not apprehend any open opposition; and he never seemed to doubt that the insurrectionary movement would promptly be put down.

  16. One insurrectionary movement, indeed, took place in England, and another in Scotland.

  17. Intrigues in the palace, riots in the capital, and insurrectionary movements in the American colonies, had left the advisers of the Crown little leisure to study Indian politics.

  18. The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic.

  19. On the 10th of May the President issued a proclamation declaring substantially that actual hostilities had ceased, and that "armed resistance to the authority of the Government in the insurrectionary States may be regarded as at an end.

  20. Beyond his experiment with the "Louisiana plan" Mr. Lincoln had never given the slightest indication either by word or deed as to the specific course he would adopt in the rehabilitation of the insurrectionary States.

  21. He was conscientiously convinced that, all things considered, it was the promptest and most feasible process of re-establishing civil government in the insurrectionary States.

  22. He said that when insurrectionary force had been overthrown and peace established, "the military power should cease to lead, and the civil administration resume its natural and rightful dominion.

  23. Flanders and Hahn to seats in the House of Representatives had to a certain degree misled him as to the temper and tendency of Congress on the whole subject of re-establishing civil government in the insurrectionary States.

  24. On the same day an insurrectionary movement took place in Cuzco, headed by Colonel Lavin, an Argentine, formerly an ardent Royalist, but at this time under arrest in that city on account of an abortive conspiracy at Arequipa.

  25. Religious concessions to the other and more ignorant class were a boon of great value, and by these means the king and his advisers determined to quiet the insurrectionary spirit in Canada.

  26. There was an insurrectionary movement among the militia in this vicinity in 1781.

  27. Why talk of war against States when the duty of the hour was the exercise of acknowledged authority against insurrectionary citizens?

  28. With his characteristic restless audacity Frémont joined his little company of explorers to a local insurrectionary faction of American settlers, and raised a battalion of mounted volunteers.

  29. Both also entered on their mission with the feelings entertained by the President and Democratic party; namely, that the free-State men were a mischievous insurrectionary faction, willfully disturbing the peace and defying the laws.

  30. The insurrectionary occurrences at Ballymore-Eustace and Dunlavin simultaneously with those described, offer fearful pictures of the atrocious spirit with which a civil war is carried through.

  31. On this reply Metternich, who saw Austria's own dominion in Italy once more menaced by the success of an insurrectionary movement, had to form his decision.

  32. Several of the colonial agents have powerful inducements to the provocation of some insurrectionary outbreak, on the part of the colored population.

  33. Another insurrectionary feature peculiar to the apprenticeship is its making the apprentices free a portion of the time.

  34. Doubtless you have all heard Anti-Slavery Societies denounced as insurrectionary and mischievous, fanatical and dangerous.

  35. Several bills were then pending in each House to provide governments for the insurrectionary states.

  36. It was a complete guarantee to the people of the insurrectionary states that upon certain conditions these states might resume their place in the Union when the insurrection had ceased.

  37. Provisions were also made for the collection in the insurrectionary districts within the United States of the direct taxes levied under the act of 1862.

  38. Helper, are insurrectionary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquility of the country, and that no Member of this House who has indorsed and recommended it, or the compend from it, is fit to be speaker of this House.

  39. So also, obeying the dictates of prudence, as well as the obligations of law, instead of transcending I have adhered to the act of Congress to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes.

  40. And finally, they permitted the insurrectionary government to be transferred to their capital at Richmond.

  41. But, on the other hand, when the people of the States themselves have inaugurated the insurrectionary movement and have voluntarily sustained it in its war upon the Government, then no such favor can reasonably be claimed for them.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insurrectionary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.