The affair had been mootedin October: it was clinched by the victory of Austerlitz; and after Napoleon's arrival at Munich on the last day of the year, the final details were arranged.
For a time Napoleon humoured that Court, even as regards the changes now mooted in Italy.
This he was determined to keep; and probably he had already formed the design, later on to be mooted to Ferdinand VII.
Here are the facts: Those who were delegates to the Philadelphia National Convention will remember, that the subject was first mooted there at the request of the three members of the F.
It was much mooted among the opposition whether he should not be deposed from a leadership which his eloquence did not always serve, and which his reckless inconsistency so often damaged.
A debate subsequently occurred on the question which was mooted by a member of opposition, as to whether or no the Militia Bill was a money-bill.
Early in the year a project was mooted for bringing together in one vast building specimens of the industry of all nations, The object in view was to promote commerce and national amity.
The latter resolved to interfere, and the question arose and was anxiously mooted in England, what, under such circumstances, was the true policy of Britain?
The report of this commission had not yet been made, but nevertheless the subject was again mooted in the commons.
The Earl of Chatham signified his intention of supporting the Marquess of Rockingham on the 24th, when the great question mootedby him was to be discussed.
In parliament the subject was mooted angrily, not only by the opposition, but by the more radical supporters of the government.
I do not know, at least I do not want the question mooted just now.
Henrietta of France, the question was mooted respecting the education of the children, and it was finally settled that for the first seven years they should remain under the mother's influence, and afterward be brought up Protestant.
The strenuous times and many mooted questions and new affiliations and realignments of men and parties made the election one of momentous concern in every unit of political organization.
All over Europe, this question is mooted at present, and threatens to assume quite formidable proportions.
It was not necessary, in a letter like that we have made use of, to enter on the discussion of mooted points of archæology.
Now before I treat of the right of the said authorities as against others, we had better resolve a question commonly mooted about religion.
Neither were the President's ideas in regard to methods for settling mooted questions of international relations, nor those in regard to the advancement of religious liberty, fulfilled.
It is, perhaps, necessary at this point to discuss the still mooted question as to the guilt or innocence of the Order.
Now the question of Mary's going had been one greatly mooted between them.
Perhaps I should say no more,--but still I wish you could make your father understand that no subject will be mooted between his lordship and him, which will refer at all to the method in which he may choose to perform his duty.
Hence arose Castelar's constant and vigorous criticisms of the successive plans mooted to place a Hohenzollern, a Portuguese, the duke of Montpensier, Espartero and finally Amadeus of Savoy on the throne.
The Romance of the Life of Lincoln By the slow passing of years humanity attains what is called the "historical perspective," but it is still a mooted question as to how many years are necessary.
It is a mooted question whether shiftlessness causes dressing-sacks, or dressing-sacks cause shiftlessness, but there is no doubt about the loving association of the two.
It was mooted among the half-breeds that they {163} were to be swamped by the incoming Canadians, and much resentment was aroused among them against the assumption of authority by the Dominion government.
A general union of the colonies had been mooted before the Revolution.
When the subject had been first mooted in the household, he had said a word or two to his father, and had found him very reluctant to entertain the idea of parting with Grace.
Those philosophers who like and expect to settle all mooted questions will take one or the other extreme.
But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally clear-sighted, and to find their way very plain to positive conclusions upon one side or the other of every mooted question.
It was just at the moment that this question became mooted in my mind that I perceived the faint track of a wheel on the short grass of the pathway.
But he would have nothing to do with Georges, and when Pichegru mooted the overthrow of Bonaparte and the restoration of the Bourbons, he firmly warned him: "Do with Bonaparte what you will, but do not ask me to put a Bourbon in his place.
Hardly had preferential trade as a mooted topic receded into the background when the question of Canada's share in the defence of the Empire came to the front and took on a new urgency and a new interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mooted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
