Even if the employment of Sikhs in times of emergency may be advisable, it cannot be denied that the day has gone by for permanently overawing a people by means of standing armies composed of their hereditary foes.
On the other hand, Sir William Howe drew in all his forces, by concentration in the neighborhood of Amboy and Brunswick, and abandoned all hope of preventing the recruiting service by overawing the whole extent of the country.
Mayham, of the brigade, suggested a mode of overawing the garrison which was immediately adopted.
Those," said Bob, "are the troops who are overawing us.
Overawing or defeating the various Thracian tribes, he reached Amphipolis on the Strymon where he was met by Derkyllidas, who had come fresh from the battle of Corinth and informed him of the victory.
Hampden is described in this satire as perpetually passing and repassing between the military station at Windsor and the House of Commons at Westminster, as overawing the general, and as giving law to that Parliament which knew no other law.
Its triumphs added nothing to his fame; its increase added nothing to his means of overawing his enemies; its great leader was not his friend.
In 1641 he had engaged in an intrigue, the object of which was to bring that army to London for the purpose of overawing the Parliament.
Buckingham himself undertook the task ofoverawing the nobles and the gentry.
The task of overawingan Irish Parliament indeed was no very difficult one.
About one third of the building is still preserved, and presents a scene to the beholder of overawing magnificence and grandeur.
His overawing presence gives tremendous meaning to His words.
The men officially empowered to arrest Him return empty-handed, confessing the overawingpower of His words.
The military posts, thus established, succeeded for a time in overawing the natives; but fresh hostilities were soon manifested, excited by a different cause from the preceding.
He suddenly detached him, therefore, with forty men, to the Vega, under pretext of overawing certain of the natives who had refused to pay their tribute, and had shown a disposition to revolt.
The Danes did not, however, commence hostilities so soon as they landed, but quietly overawing the country by their mighty force, they took up their winter quarters within their intrenchments, and moored their vessels along the shore.
Overawing the inhabitants of this town, as well as the garrison of the Two Walls, he got them surrendered to him by Themistocles, who had been, as it happened, left by Achaeus in command of this district.
The French armies which, but for his own folly, might have been employed in overawing the States General, were besieging Philipsburg or garrisoning Mentz.
But it was not in the power of Jeffreys to overawe a synod of peers as he had been in the habit of overawing common juries.
In truth, the great force which the King had assembled for the purpose of overawinghis mutinous capital had become more mutinous than the capital itself; and was more dreaded by the court than by the citizens.
Even as the desert has its spell of overawing stillness in an uninhabited land, so this trail had its spell of congested human movement in the heart of habitations.
It is overawing to average mortals who have not the temerity to say "Nonsense!
They compel the people, by overawing them, to believe in this, and jealously guard this faith from any attempt to free the people from these barbarous superstitions.
And it is a lie and a calumny so transparent that the only way of keeping it up consists in overawingpeople by their earnestness, their conscientiousness.
Priests and military chiefs appeared on the bench for the purpose of overawing the judge and countenancing the robbers.
The system of overawing justice by such gatherings was usual, as we have already seen; Knox, Bothwell, Lethington, and the Lord James Stewart all profited by the practice on various occasions.
Knox therefore convoked the Congregation to meet in Edinburgh on the day of trial, in the good old way of overawing justice.
As for Hiram, he listened almost with envy to Audouin's glib tongue, as it ran on so lightly and so smoothly to the beautiful overawing stranger.
Another mode of overawingthe Parliament was then resorted to.
The effect of their power in overawing delinquents, from the nature of the system and the discipline peculiar to the institution, is not to be conceived.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
