States General

How To Use States General In A Sentence

• King John was keen to fight; the States General gave him the means for carrying on war, by establishing the odious "gabelle" on salt, and other imposts. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• Other examples abound, including the misidentification of the author of the Encyclopedia article on the slave trade and the misdating of the meeting of the Estates General.
• At a meeting of the States General in 1614, atwhich its representatives were obliged to remain bareheaded on their knees, one member of the Third Estate having dared to say that the three orders were like three brothers, the spokesman of the nobles replied "that there was no fraternity between it and the Third; that the nobles did not wish the children of cobblers and tanners to call them their brothers. The Psychology of Revolution
• In 1586 the advocate Le Breton, in a pamphlet for which he was hanged, called Henry III "one of the greatest hypocrites who ever lived", demanded an assembly of the States General from which the royal officers should be excluded, and proposed to restore all their franchises to the cities. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
• The states generally responded positively when discussing efforts to educate growers and others on ASR, " Robert Robinson, GAO Managing Director of Natural Resources and Environment said.
• In the newly joined member states generally, the effective tax rate is well below the nominal one.
• In 1638 Mr. Joachim wrote the States General, "that a certain judge had distinctly advised that, under present circumstances, the ship money may not be levied off the inhabitants of England, without consent of Parliament." slipe (n.) VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 3
• Three of his pictures travelled to London as a gift from the Dutch States General to King Charles II on his restoration to the throne in 1660.
• An assembly of notables was, as the term imports, a body consisting, not of representatives of the three orders, regularly summoned under the forms observed in the holding of the States General, but of the most prominent men of the kingdom, arbitrarily selected and invited by the crown to act as its advisers on some extraordinary emergency. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)