That Prince von Buelow should move every lever to save this precious pledge was natural, and that Italian statesmen with their germanophile leanings should readily fall in with his scheme is not to be wondered at.
The poet seems to have adhered closely to the politics of his patron, Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery, and afterwards 4th earl of Pembroke, who had leanings to democracy and was a personal enemy of the duke of Buckingham.
It is not too much to say that not one person in a hundred, no matter what his political leanings were, had doubted for a moment Dr.
Though volumes have been written on the civil administration under the dictatorship, the writers' judgments are so warped by their political leanings that it is not easy to get at the truth.
Of course, personal feeling enjoyed all its liberty of preference, but it is fair to say that the cases were few where the wounded man could detect the political leanings of his benefactor.
Pauw's strenuous efforts however to maintain peace were all in vain, despite the strong leaningsof Cromwell towards a peaceful solution.
You see their fathers and grandfathers fought under the Black Prince, and it is natural that their leaningsshould be on that side.
We seeleanings toward the world-church idea in Pananglican and Panpresbyterian Councils.
His own leanings had always been rather to the English Parliamentarians than to the Royalists, and hence he had been disposed to think well of Milton.
He was studying to be as secret as the grave, had signified his leanings to the King by not a single public word, and indeed had hardly ceased to swear he stood for the Commonwealth.
Luther’s then leaningsto the democratic congregational ideal.
This Prince, whose leanings were towards Zürich, as early as 1529 was anxious to extend the alliance he had concluded in the interests of the innovations with the Saxon Electorate, so as to embrace also the Zwinglians.
Meanwhile, the Spanish leanings of Charles had been intensified.
These differences of race and past history were illustrated in the religious leanings of the people.
It gave counsel in foreign affairs, and met the king's leanings towards Lewis by expressions of its will for a contest with France.
The pressure of a Parliament with Presbyterian leanings would be yet more fatal to the administrative independence he wished to maintain than a Cavalier Parliament.
Loves the Strenuous Life ¶ "The strenuous life" was another of Roosevelt's pet phrases and came from the natural leanings of his type.
With all the leanings you had in that direction, how did it happen you didn't follow it?
The Wully Johnstones had not heretofore shown any leanings towards education, but, since Miss Gordon had set the pace by sending her nephew and niece to the High School, learning became highly fashionable about The Dale.
But those who complain of England having broken off from her old moorings, not only exaggerate her leanings to authority in the present, but they also ignore her concessions to authority in the past.
Strängnäs was a cathedral city and had for several years previous been notorious for the Lutheran leanings of its clergy.
Our canonicus here has strong leanings toward heresy, and to-day he has dared to defy our orders.
But, while basing all his hopes on the devotion of the French peasantry and the pacific leanings of Austria, the French Emperor left out of count the eager hatred of the Czar and the Prussians.
The Jacobins were content when they saw the regicide Cambacérès become Second Consul; and friends of constitutional monarchy remembered that the Third Consul, Lebrun, had leanings towards the Feuillants of 1791.
The third Consul, Lebrun, was a moderate with leanings towards constitutional royalty.
Marshal Damville, the second son of the old constable, whose Politique leanings already had made him conspicuous, was significantly appointed the King’s lieutenant in Languedoc.
If the opposite had been the case, Norfolk's traditions andleanings would have been more conspicuous than they are in Henry's actions at the time.
His leanings cannot have been quite unknown to the ever-watchful spies of the Pope and the Emperor, though Cranmer had done his best to hoodwink them, and to some extent had succeeded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leanings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
