378 examples of régime in sentences

Ten days after I had been living under the régime of "new lords and new laws," we fell in with a frigate, in the chops of the channel, and exchanged signals with her.

He made no change, however, spoke kindly to every one, told the slaves nothing should be altered, and gave them every reason to suppose that they would continue under a true Wallingford régime.

"Of course, there have been all sorts of rumors East: 'bull' prophecies that the triumph of the new party means an era of unexampled prosperity for the Stateand by consequence for western stocks; 'bear' growlings that things are sure to go to the bow-wows under the Bucks régime.

Everybody knows what the policy of the road was under the old régime: 'All the tariff the traffic will stand.'

Not many recruits had entered from the rice coast in colonial times, for the régime there was not such as to produce pioneers for the interior.

That is to say, there was already discoverable a tendency toward a plantation régime in the localities most accessible to market, while among the farmers about one in four had one or more slaves to aid in the family's work.

The diversified régime is pictured in Michaux's description of a North Carolina plantation in 1802: "In eight hundred acres of which it is composed, a hundred and fifty are cultivated in cotton, Indian corn, wheat and oats, and dunged annually, which is a great degree of perfection in the present state of agriculture in this part of the country.

The speed of the change to a general slaveholding régime in the uplands may easily be exaggerated.

The laws erected by the community were favorable to the slaveholding régime; but after the first decades of the migration period, the superior attractions of the more southerly latitudes for plantation industry checked Kentucky's receipt of slaves.

They had the refinement of sentiment of the ancien régime, only they were much less coarse.

And in the ancien régime one worshipped the King and the constitution of France, whereas grandmamma and the Marquis worshipped only le beau in everything, which is higher than an individual.

In fact, under this régime we may say that of the female line the daughter alone was sure of inheriting something.

The robuster comradeship between the two already resulting from the more active sharing of common interests cannot but tend to a deeper and more exhilarating union of man and woman, a completer, intenser marriage literally of true minds as well as bodies than was possible in the old régime, when the masculine and feminine "spheres" were kept so jealously distinct and only allowed to touch at the elementary points of relationship.

This settlement was the only one possible under the circumstances; but it was essentially transitory, for it neglected the natural line of nationality altogether, and left a numerical majority of the Greek race, as well as the most important centres of its life, under the old régime of servitude.

His Bavarian staff belonged to that reactionary generation that followed the overthrow of Napoleon in Europe, and attempted, heedless of Kapodistrias' fiasco, to impose on Greece the bureaucracy of the ancien régime.

Prince George of Greece, a son of the King of the Hellenes, had been placed at the head of the autonomous government as high commissioner; but his autocratic tendency caused great discontent among the free-spirited Kretans, who had not rid themselves of the Turkish régime in order to forfeit their independence again in another fashion.

He was succeeded as high commissioner by Zaimis, another citizen of the Greek kingdom, who inaugurated a more constitutional régime, and in 1908 the Kretans believed that the moment for realizing the national ideal had come.

Naturally, he became one of the leading statesmen under Zaimis' régime, and he further distinguished himself by resolutely opposing the 'Unionist' agitation as premature, and yet retaining his hold over a people whose paramount political preoccupation was their national unity.

In this event Greece will no longer have to accommodate her régime in the liberated islands to the susceptibilities of a Turkey consolidated on the opposite mainland, but will be able to stretch out her hand over the Anatolian coast and its hinterland, and compensate herself richly in this quarter for the territorial sacrifices which may still be necessary to a lasting understanding with her Bulgarian neighbour.

They had been superior to their Christian kinsmen by the weight of numbers and the possession of arms, which under the Ottoman régime were the monopoly of the Moslem.

'The Administrative régime during the Phanariote period was, in general, little else than organized brigandage,' says Xenopol.

It is the Crown which has the final decision in the changes of régime, and upon the king falls the delicate task of interpreting the significance of political or popular movements.

Peter I, King of Serbia (1903), Peter I, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, Petrovi['c]-Njego[)s], dynasty of, Petta, battle of, Phanariote Greeks, the, See Greek officials under the Turks, and Turkey, Phanariot régime.

But the new régime was odious to the artist, and she found herself unable to be at home, even in Paris.

The very futility of itsince a number of copies of the manuscript had already been made, and one or the other was sure to escape seizureis a good example of the trials to which the patience of Austrian poets was subjected during the old régime.

378 examples of  régime  in sentences