All their temporising with the enemy had this end in view, and they followed it up with such zeal, intelligence, and national harmony, as to excite both wonder and admiration.
Meantime, however, the invaders would brook no delay,--they had no time for temporising tactics.
And whilst Mr. Metcalfe was carrying out this temporising policy inculcated by the Calcutta council, troops were pushed forward to the frontier to watch the movements of the Punjabee chief.
To this Philip returned, as was usual with him, a temporising answer.
During the stormy session of his two last parliaments, Charles was much guided by his temporising and camelion-like policy.
He forgot that it was only the temporising concessions of his brother which secured his way to the throne, when his exclusion, or a civil war, seemed the only alternatives.
The Trimmers, a body small and unpopular, as must always be the case with those, who in violent times declare for moderate and temporising measures, were headed by the ingenious and politic Halifax.
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all time-serving and temporising statesmen!
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen!
The crusading fleet, equipped with the money of the Roman Church, threatened the English coast, and the curia was even more French in its sympathies than the temporising pontiff.
Even after the dissolution of the alliances of the early years of the war, the temporising policy of Louis de Male at least neutralised the influence of Flanders.
There is no thought of temporising with the enemy; the one idea is to reduce him to a condition of absolute submission--a submission which it was known could be secured only by the possession of his person.
Even the latest phase of the Numidian affair was not powerful or horrible enough to crush all attempts at a temporising policy.
Latimer pressed the necessity of expelling thesetemporising conformists.
They persuaded themselves (and the English priests, uninstructed and accustomed to a temporising conduct, did not discourage the notion) that the private observance of their own rites would excuse a formal obedience to the civil power.
A great majority both of clergy and laity yielded to the times; and of these temporisingconformists it cannot be doubted that many lost by degrees all thought of returning to their ancient fold.
They at once showed the impatience of the emigrés, the resolution of the king of Prussia, the hesitation of the powers, the temporising policy of the emperor.
Such were the counsels of that temporising genius of empires that awaits necessity without ever forestalling, and would fain be assured of every thing without the least risk.
He opposed the temporising policy of diplomacy to the contagion of new ideas; he was the Fabius of kings.
He obtained several audiences of the two sovereigns, he inveighed with respect and energy against the temporising system of the emperor, and violently roused the Germanic sluggishness.
As true friends they are, as he that Caelius Secundus met by the highway side; and hard it is in this temporising age to distinguish such companions, or to find them out.
After temporising between Burgundy and France at this crisis, he paid the penalty for his vacillation, the duke surrendering him to Louis, by whom he was decapitated before the end of the year (Dec.
And the old man, temporising with his grief, answers: Thou art subtle and strong.
With what simplicity of eloquence he remonstrates on the temporising government of Elizabeth.
By such temporising means they have altogether compromised the rights of their fellow citizens.
For the purpose of temporising therefore, he sent Lord Malmsbury to France, under the hollow pretence of making peace, when at the same time he had orders not to accept of any terms.
A request that the Princess Mary might be allowed to see her dying mother was at first met with a flat refusal, and after Chapuys' remonstrance by a temporising evasion which was as bad, so that Mary saw her mother no more in life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "temporising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
