He built railways, made commercial treaties with foreign nations, suppressed monasteries, protected fugitives from Austrian and Papal tyranny, gave liberty to the Press, and even meditated the construction of a tunnel under Mont Cenis.
The absolute control of the army and navy, the power to make treaties and declare peace and war, the appointment of all the great officers of state, and the control of education and other great interests still remained with the king.
The Czar, so long the ally of England, was grieved and indignant at what appeared to him to be a breach of treaties and an affront to him personally, and determined on vengeance.
Before the end of the year 1908, one hundred and thirty-five arbitration treaties had been concluded.
These strings and belts of wampum are also documents by which the Indians remember the chief articles of the treaties made between themselves, or with the white people.
Formerly they used to give sanction to their treaties by delivering a wing of some large bird, and this custom still prevails among the more western nations, in transacting business with the Delawares.
It would supervise the drafting of the treaties and present them to the plenary conference in practically final form.
To each of these and to many others who presented problems for immediate settlement the Council listened, for it had not merely to draw up treaties and provide for the future peace of the world, but also to meet crises of the moment.
Would the President sanction the application of treaties consummated without the knowledge of the United States and in defiance of the principles upon which he had declared that peace must be made?
It would be the single specific factor that would make this treaty different from and better than treaties of the past.
The people of the island of Tidore, who long have been our friends, and through whom we are able to maintain ourselves in the Malucas, broke the treaties which they had made with the Terrenatans.
On the 28th of September he made a truce with Charles the Bold, and in October the treaties of Conflans and Saint Maur-les-Fosses, ended the war.
Whenever it was deemed politic, stops were made and treaties entered into.
The design of these treaties was to insure peace among the tribes themselves.
As many of these places had not been visited on the upward journey, it was manifest that word of the treaties and the impression made were being gradually and favorably disseminated by the canoe-traders.
Other agreements and treaties were also made, designed to secure such transfers of their sovereignty to the International Commission, as would enable it to organize the Congo Free State.
For this purpose, treaties were to be formed with native princes, agriculture was to be encouraged, and Christian missions were to be established.
The confederated districts guarantee that thetreaties made between them shall be respected.
Stanley's present to the Association was a series of treaties duly ratified by 450 independent African chiefs, who held land by undisturbed possession, ancient usage and divine right.
Mr. Chamberlain therefore laid the matter before the government, and it was thereupon decided to end the two treaties mentioned.
The most important news of the past week is the step which Great Britain has taken in breaking off the commercial treaties with Germany and Belgium, which have been in effect since 1865.
You would have supposed that England, being the mother country, would have been charged a lower tariff than foreign countries, but according to the treaties this was impossible.
By breaking these treaties it has, however, become possible for Great Britain to make arrangements whereby her merchandise can be introduced into her colonies on terms that are very favorable to herself.
National and international treatiesfor the protection of inland and maritime boundaries.
Naught omitted; The power and opposition close compared; All the resources accurately noted, Together with the maxims to be followed, And all the treaties which they should conclude.
The princes of the country, acquainted at last with their true interest, encouraged the merchant by important immunities, and neglected not to protect their commerce by advantageous treaties with foreign powers.
Besides, without an adequate force, the king cannot venture his person in hostile countries; he cannot enter into any treaties with his rebellious subjects which would not be derogatory to his honor.
I go--I leave This kingdom where they sport with public treaties And trample on the laws of nations.
The deputies were informed that the time for treaties was past, and that an unconditional submission alone could appease the just anger of the monarch whom they had offended by their rebellion.
The majesty of his name opened all harbors, cleared all seas for their vessels, and obtained for them the most favorable commercial treaties with foreign powers.
So that property rested first on war and conquest, then on treaties and agreements.
Since the treaty of Westphalia, and especially since the treaties of 1815, equilibrium has been the international law of Europe.
The real problem of the Native States is how to get over the treaties when they conflict with the interests of their subjects.
This suzerainty could then be established duly by entering into treaties with these states and guaranteeing them certain rights and privileges.
But these treaties have now assumed in the eyes of the descendants of the original princes an air of inspiration; they have become a kind of perpetuity.
Is it not high time that the treaties with the chiefs should be revised after over a hundred years?
They declared to the ministers of the other powers, that they and some other plenipotentiaries were ready to sign their respective treaties on the eleventh day of April.
Meanwhile the commons desired that the treaties between England and the states-general should be laid before the house.
The commons likewise ordered an address to his majesty, for the copies of several memorials since the treaty of Seville, touching the rights of Great Britain, or any infraction of treaties which had not been laid before them.
A motion was made for an address, desiring that the instructions of those who concluded the treaties might be laid before the house; but this was over-ruled by the majority.
In this capacity he showed his usual industry and devotion, concluding the treaties between France and Austria and France and Prussia, which preceded the French invasion of Russia in 1812.
These treaties were simply declaratory of Belgium's rights as a sovereign nation and simply reaffirmed by a special covenant the duty of Germany and the other Powers to respect the neutrality of Belgium.
These reflections in a time of broken friendships and violated treaties are not calculated to fill the man of the twentieth century with any justifiable pride.
England, which pretends to make war on Germany to defend Belgium, ought not to trample underfoot the rights of Egypt, nor consider the treaties relative thereto as 'scraps of paper.
By a number of secret treaties negotiated during the war, the Ottoman Empire had been virtually partitioned between the victorious Allies, and these secret treaties formed the basis of the Versailles settlement.
French troops appeared to occupy the Syrian coast, the secrettreaties came out, and the Arabs learned how they had been tricked.
A still greater effect was produced by Russia's annulment of all the secret treaties enforced by the imperialistic governments, and by the proclaiming of the right of all nations, no matter how small, to determine their own destiny.
By the terms of the treaties which marked its close, Turkey was extinguished and not a single Mohammedan state retained genuine independence.
The Turks did not know about a series of secret treaties between the Allies, begun in 1915, which partitioned practically the whole of Asia Minor between the Allied Powers.
The acquisition of Poland and Finland, which she obtained by thetreaties of 1815, had increased this contact, for both of these states were much influenced by Western ideas.
It knows no arbiter, and draws up all its treaties with this implied reservation.
The Government alone can, by the uncompromising (rücksichtslos) employment of its methods of power, conclude treaties .
Treaties under international law are no more than the formulated expression of the existent relations of power between States.
The program will not permit the peace treatieshitherto concluded to be a hindrance to the conclusion of the general peace.
The treaty of Berlin, by which that war was settled in 1878, was one of those treaties which could only lead to trouble.
These treaties had been seized upon the Bolsheviki assumption of power, and were now repudiated by the new government.
All international agreements and treatiesof every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world.
Renunciation of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and of the supplementary treaties.
During this period the Bolsheviki's Foreign Secretary astonished the world by making public the secret treaties between Russia and foreign governments in the early years of the war.
By secret treaties arrangements were made for the division of the land, which they hoped to obtain from Turkey.
Neither oaths nortreaties could restrain the boundless ambition of Maximus; and the delay of vigorous and decisive measures, instead of prolonging the blessings of peace, would expose the Eastern empire to the danger of a hostile invasion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "treaties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
