Certainly the unfortunate Barneveldians or Arminians, or however the Remonstrants might be designated, had been sufficiently stripped of their plumes.
You did not say that his Excellency had any such design or project, but that it had been said that the Contra- Remonstrants were entertaining such a scheme.
The States' right party accused the Contra-Remonstrants in the cities of mutiny against the lawful sovereignty of each province.
The Contra- Remonstrants in Brielle had desired that "men should see who had the hardest fists," and it would certainly have been difficult to find harder ones than those of the hero of Nieuwpoort.
Langerac had already been informed by Chatillon that the Contra-Remonstrants had determined to make a public declaration against the Remonstrants, and come to an open separation from them.
There were conferences in which Grotius met Prince Maurice, and taught him that Olden Barneveldt was not the only man of capacity in the ranks of the Remonstrantswhom he had to fear.
Grotius sought to find some mean term in which the two hostile parties of Remonstrants and Anti-remonstrants, or as they were subsequently called Arminians and Gomarists (see Remonstrants), might agree.
Meantime the Contra-Remonstrants of the Hague, not finding sufficient accommodation in Enoch Much's house, clamoured loudly for the use of a church.
And in addition to other advantages the Contra-Remonstrants had now got a good cry--an inestimable privilege in party contests.
But delays were, as the Contra- Remonstrants believed, purposely interposed, so that it was nearly Midsummer before there were any signs of the church being fit for use.
The remonstrants today tell us that our movement will destroy the affectionate tenderness of the womanly nature and unsex woman until she becomes a weak man.
Mr. Russell again spoke for the remonstrants and was answered by Miss Blackwell, Miss Gail Laughlin and Mrs. Mary Clarke Smith.
The remonstrants who set out with the avowed intention of getting more secured about 3,000.
Kingsley, chairman of the legislative committee, said that as no petitions against suffrage had been sent in he would ask all the remonstrants present to rise.
This was headed: "Massachusetts Remonstrants against Woman Suffrage, to the Members of the Michigan Legislature;" and contained the familiar array of misrepresentations.
On January 29 a hearing was given to the remonstrants conducted by Thornton K.
The remonstrants in past years had gone repeatedly before legislative committees, and since 1897 they have appeared and spoken every year in opposition to any form of suffrage for women.
Mr. Lord suggested that the remonstrantswere averse to notoriety, whereupon Senator Kingsley asked all in favor to rise, and the great audience rose in a body.
In the future years of strife over this question there will be many hands stained with guilt, but they will be those of the remonstrants and not ours.
In July, 1653, the General Assembly was closed, and Resolutioners and Remonstrants were sent to the right about together.
Though the Remonstrants had won the upper hand for a time, the bulk of the Scottish nation had been all along on the side of the Resolutioners.
These men were a remnant of the old Remonstrants of the Mauchline Convention.
As to this, the remonstrants venture no opinion, except to say, that passengers are now carried, at all hours, as rapidly and safely as they are anywhere else in the world.
Secondly, that, if that prayer be granted, provision should be made as a condition for granting it, that the Remonstrants shall be indemnified for the losses which will be thereby occasioned to them.
But delays were, as the Contra-Remonstrants believed, purposely interposed, so that it was nearly Midsummer before there were any signs of the church being fit for use.
It was in vain that the western remonstrants were silenced by threats from the Council, and that the laggard shires were rated for their sluggishness in payment.
The remonstrants had hearings of their own, at one of which I happened to be present.
He advised me at the same time to reserve my question until the remonstrants should have been fully heard.
Among theremonstrants who spoke at these hearings occasionally appeared some illiterate woman, attracted by the opportunity of making a public appearance.
Just as Milton, after having joined the Presbyterians, forsook them when they in turn began to persecute the followers of other creeds, so, too, Vondel left the Remonstrants when they crossed the jealous line of freedom.
From every pulpit the Contra-Remonstrants hurled anathemas at the offending poet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "remonstrants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
