In the whole, about three hundred and twenty-six were from time to time liberated, leaving about one hundred and sixty in confinement, among whom seventy-two stood charged with being among the principal promoters of the insurrection.
The association met with some favour in high quarters in England, but not with so much as its promotersbelieved would be the case.
Proceedings were also taken of various kinds against several of the more prominent promoters of sedition.
The authors andpromoters of this desperate conspiracy have, in the conduct of it, derived great advantage from the difference of our intention and theirs.
The demonstration was on the whole loyal, contrary to the expectation of both its promoters and government.
This feature of the movement is called Humanism, and the promoters of it are known as Humanists.
One of the greatest promoters of the papal fortunes was Pope Gregory VII.
Three men stand preeminent as lovers and promoters of the New Learning.
There probably was an academic deprecation of the evils of the institution but hardly any tendency toward agitation; and if there had been such, the promoters would not have secured support among the leading people.
Rice and David Christy, promoters of the colonization scheme in that State, avowed friends of slavery and slaveholders.
Their resentment seemed to be due not so much to the fact that they were urged to emigrate, but that a large number of the promoters of the enterprise seemed to feel that the free Negroes should be forced to leave.
We, Onondagas, acknowledge ourselves to have been the chief Promoters of this Message, we have sent in all nine Sachems with nine Belts.
The law under which I suffer is surely a severe one--may the makers and promoters of it be justified in the integrity of their motives, and the purity of their own lives!
It is characteristic of the man that with this conviction hanging like a mill-stone about his neck, he did not hesitate to take an active and an open part with the promoters of the Fenian movement.
That there was no end, nor would there be, so long as the promoters of sedition were rewarded with honour in proportion as sedition was successful.
It was not all smooth sailing for the promoters of the game, even at this time.
The Earl of Southampton and Sir Ferdinando Gorges were the chief promoters of this enterprise.
Only men of good character can obtain membership: thus, besides spreading prosperity, they have everywhere been great promoters of sobriety and good conduct.
The promoters of ministerial measures in this Town are pleasd to hear from one of the Commissioners that they are treated with great respect: Even common Civility will be thus colourd to serve the great purpose.
In March 1865, his contract was transferred to the Credit Mobilier Company, which as has been previously stated, was organized by the promotersand insiders of the Railroad Company to do the actual construction.
Its promoterswere men of small means and little or no financial backing outside of the aid granted them by the Government.
You are promoters of crime, inasmuch as you assist the criminal more than the innocent; inasmuch as the quality of thief becomes a letter of recommendation to ‘the Dormitory for Thieves,’ and thence to Australia.
The intended meeting in Dublin will be now abandoned, as thepromoters of it must be satisfied with Lord Bessborough's Proclamation.
As reorganizations were attempted the promoters generally desired that the fresh start in state life should be made with new state Constitutions.
For eight days following the promoters called evidence in support of the preamble—their engineers especially being subjected to the most searching cross-examinations by the opposition.
MAY 20—A special meeting of the body was held to congratulate the promoters of the Severn Navigation Improvement on the passing of the measure, and to thank the noblemen and gentlemen by whose exertions its success had been secured.
Some opposition was here offered on behalf of the Tewkesbury people, but the committee would not suffer the question to be reopened; and the only alterations made were those suggested and proposed by the promoters themselves.
The toll was fixed at sixpence per ton from Gloucester to Worcester, and fourpence per ton from Worcester to Stourport: this being what the promoters proposed.
These proceedings of course only made the original promoters of the meeting more in earnest, and the hall was this day crowded by a company entirely unanimous in favour of the ballot.
Nicholl, the judge, declared the evidence insufficient, and condemned the promotersof the suit in full costs.
Agriculture, the promoters said, ought to be the predominant interest in the state, and they conceived that, from a want of union, they had suffered many important privileges to be wrested from them.
The census of 1870 verified the hopes of enthusiastic promoters in many lines.
These two men a few years later went over to the English and became the promoters of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
The originalpromoters of my various expeditions, Messrs.
Hence, unscrupulous promoters of new breeds have often claimed that they received their original stock direct from some remote place or from some one who had long bred it pure.
But the recent activity of their promoters has raised some discussion in India as to whether it would not be for the public good to restrain them by legislation.
Sure I am, that the promoters of this address had no such view.
Probably this knight was one of the most active and able inflamers of the national pride in their navy and their commerce, and one of the principal promoters of that enthusiasm for the act of navigation, which has prevailed to this day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "promoters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
