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Example sentences for "state affairs"

  • The evils of this system in State affairs are, perhaps, of small moment compared with those which prevail under the same system in the transaction of the business of the National government.

  • But at no distant day they are likely to become serious, even in the administration of State affairs.

  • One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

  • The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs.

  • When the cook cut open the salmon, he found poor Tom, and ran with him directly to the king; but the king being busy with state affairs, desired that he might be brought another day.

  • He had plainly intimated that he would allow no one to influence his course in state affairs.

  • In state affairs, this call is conveyed by means of elections, which have never before obtained to the same extent as at present.

  • They would find him a new being; he would not permit female interference in state affairs.

  • Yes, really, he had the impudence to remark to me the other day, 'What complicated machinery is contained in the grand machine of state affairs!

  • Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs.

  • The influence of money began to be perceptible in state affairs.

  • In America the president exercises a certain influence on state affairs, but he does not conduct them; the preponderating power is vested in the representatives of the whole nation.

  • Ranks (hon-i) were granted to them and they often participated in the management of State affairs.

  • The blood relations of sovereigns either assisted at Court in the administration of State affairs or went to the provinces in the capacity of governors.

  • The Soga-uji held absolute power in every department of State affairs.

  • Defn: One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

  • For he who thinks his enemy gets before him in offices, or advocacies, or state affairs, or in favour with his friends or great men, if from action and emulation he sinks into envy and despondency, makes his life become idle and inoperative.

  • Abstain from beans: that is, do not meddle in state affairs, for the voting for offices was formerly taken by beans.

  • The cardinal left me, and everybody imagined that his eminence had spoken to me of state affairs.

  • The Venetians of old time who made as great a mystery of love as of state affairs, have been replaced by the modern Venetians, whose most prominent characteristic is to make a mystery of nothing.

  • Certainly, in your sense the egoists will not participate in State affairs at all.

  • State affairs into a comedy,--have undermined States from of old: they are not "innocent.

  • There complaint is made of those who are indifferent and do not take part, who are not in the full sense citizens, and the author speaks as if one could not be man at all if one did not take a lively part in State affairs, i.

  • The king himself began to come to her apartment, and ask her advice in state affairs.

  • I meddle with no state affairs, But spare my jest to save my ears.

  • But then you think my fable bears Allusion, too, to state affairs.

  • Your eminence comes to speak of state affairs?

  • Well--he had better be left to play the fool in peace; his pastoral will keep him from meddling in state affairs.

  • It is no state affair, for on state affairs, unhappily, we are ever at variance.

  • The widowed empress has no more voice in state affairs, and the emperor never will suffer her to have any, for he has all the power to himself, and he never means to yield an inch of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    corporeal substances; inner bark; late period; others said; scarce necessary; state enterprises; state government; state institution; state legislature; state library; state occasions; state organization; state prison; state prisoner; state room; state vice; state what; stated above; stated before; stated intervals; stated periods; stated that; stated thus; statement made; thus described; used instead