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Example sentences for "this campaign"

  • The President watched the progress of this campaign with an eagerness born of the lively hope that it might end the war.

  • This campaign of Stonewall Jackson's has been much lauded by military writers; but its temporary success resulted from good luck rather than military ability.

  • After the disastrous termination of this campaign,[25] the inhabitants of Kentucky were as much as, or perhaps more than ever, exposed to savage enmity and those incursions which mark the bitterness of Indian resentment.

  • Bold and daring, yet generous and disinterested, Colonel Clarke sought not his individual advancement in the projection or execution of this campaign.

  • In this campaign he burned eight large towns, killed twenty warriors and took between seventy and eighty prisoners.

  • His death checked for a time the ardor of his troops, and spread a gloom over the countenances of those, who had accompanied him on this campaign.

  • The court of Madrid imputing the bad success of this campaign to the misconduct of count Gages, recalled that general, and sent the marquis de las Minas to resume the command of the forces.

  • This campaign seems to have occupied ten years, and Yamato-dake was only thirty at the time of his death.

  • Nothing is recorded as to the origin or incidents of this campaign.

  • While utterly deficient in constructive power, his destructive force was great indeed, and in this campaign it was applied, as it was not always applied, for the advantage of the country.

  • As a youth of sixteen, who by that time had become earnestly interested in politics, I was especially struck by one event in this campaign.

  • While Judge White was absent on this campaign he lost several terms of his court; and as the Judges were only paid for services actually rendered, the Legislature resolved that there should be no deduction in his annual salary as Judge.

  • During nearly the whole of this campaign he acted as quartermaster.

  • Lincoln and Douglas often met in debate in this campaign.

  • The debates of this campaign were a product of the excited and heated condition of the public mind.

  • Early in this campaign, he issued a political circular.

  • In this campaign, Lincoln rose to eminence as a political speaker.

  • I believe it added greatly to the effectiveness of our artillery in the close-range fighting of this campaign.

  • Just here, I take occasion to correct a very wrong impression about the field works, the "Army of Northern Virginia" fought behind, in this campaign.

  • It was eminently so in this campaign, from the first.

  • Mr. Stone refers to General Porter, as his authority, representing him as having voluntarily prepared the account given of this campaign.

  • The charge of cowardice applied by the young warriors to Red Jacket, upon their first starting out on this campaign, was one frequently made during the war.

  • Many personal incidents and anecdotes of this campaign will be found in the Life and Work of Susan B.

  • It would be difficult to put into words the hardships of this campaign of 1890 in a new State through the hottest and dryest summer on record.

  • Couzins of St. Louis assisted them in this campaign.

  • A graphic account of this campaign, with many anecdotes and personal reminiscences, will be found in the Life and Work of Susan B.

  • I've been waiting to be called on for my contribution for the fund, but for some reason business hasn't been started in this campaign as soon as I hoped.

  • And I've been licked in the whole seventeen rounds of this campaign.

  • This campaign, Thelismer, will be started, as it ought to be started, within the next twenty-four hours.

  • The close of this campaign was as disastrous as that of the preceding one.

  • In this campaign, Napoleon was guided by the maxims he had always found successful.

  • The army of the Alps did not make much progress in this campaign.

  • Monaghan was thrice taken and retaken in this campaign.

  • This campaign appears to have consumed the greater part of the summer of the year, and ended with the submission of Ossory, after a brave but unskilful resistance.

  • His fortunes at the close of this campaign, were at their lowest ebb.

  • Some slight variation of this experience was met by every {36} woman who took part in this campaign.

  • Against their wills they were forced to talk about suffrage, although they had serenely announced at the opening of the campaign that it was "not an issue in this campaign.

  • This campaign made it clear to the President that we were still holding him and his party to their responsibility.

  • Is he, or am I, to command in this campaign?

  • It was fated, however, that but few laurels should be won by the patriots in this campaign.

  • At a gay supper in the course of this campaign, Hoogstraaten had teased Count Louis, in a rough, soldierly way, with his disaster at Jemmingen.

  • You have made available funds with which to carry on this campaign, but there is no provision in the law authorizing their expenditure for the purpose of making the public fully informed about the efforts of the Government.

  • As I pointed out in my last message, publicity can accomplish a great deal in this campaign.

  • I would strongly urge upon you its immediate adoption, as it constitutes one of the preliminary steps to this campaign.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this campaign" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alphabetical index; much pleased; this coast; this custom; this division; this early; this end; this epoch; this extraordinary; this fashion; this general; this head; this important; this law; this light; this new; this old; this paper; this realm; this sense; this ship; this should; this substance; this treaty; this very; this voyage