17 collocations for unmake

They can make and unmake constitutions at pleasure.

" "There are schools for the sons of noblemen in which he will forget it," said the friar bitterly; "where they teach disloyalty to princes and unmake men to make machinesand the mainspring is at Rome.

Women cannot only make and unmake empires but they DO make or fail to make harmony at home.

But we are more interested in social reform, in labour legislation, and in constitutional reform than in foreign politics; and so it is on questions of home policy that we make and unmake Governments, and when we discuss whether a Conservative or a Liberal Government ought to be in power, we never think what effect the change would have on foreign policy.

It has been overturned solely by the invasion of an ambitious foreign power, the Czar of Russia; who can no more legitimately make or unmake a governor of Hungary, than General Santa Anna, if in your late war he had forced his way to Washington, could have unmade President Taylor.

The tyrants have no power to unmake history, and to silence the feelings of the nation.

It is men of your sort who unmake kings.

The mighty flood ran free, tearing up trees by their roots as it ran, detaching masses of rock, dissolving islands into swirling sand and drift, carving new channels, making and unmaking the land.

He felt a growing regard, an affection, for this unassuming old man before him, who did not know and probably would be slow to understand the hypocrisy, the cunning trickery of lawmakers who unmake laws.

They could make or unmake the great Democratic party at that election.

The principal object seems to be to make or unmake a President.

Can human perversity any farther go, in unmaking the process of restoration which God has made?

The seamen are towing the vessel into the outer harbour, where they will warp her fast to the anchors, and thus secure her, until they shall be ready to unmake their sails, in order to put to sea in the morning.

The disguised boy, after being conducted to his pavilion, had his nurse's assistance in unmaking the complicated structure of his nuptial adornment.

The home, the school, the church and the State, all touch the individual on every side and create and together control the influences that make or unmake character.

That is to say that when he died at the age of seventy-six, he had spent about six entire years in making and unmaking his toilet!

" "Well, isn't that better than risking your neck trying to make and unmake emperors?"

17 collocations for  unmake