Quotes About Treaty

because the regent's power was limited by the terms of the treaty of Haddington.

Despite the humiliating terms of the treaty, Francis and Mary had to promise to ratify and fulfill all of its conditions

The treaty of Greenwich was a dead letter from the start. Mary of Guise had no intention of honoring it;

By acquiescing in the treaty of Edinburgh, her uncles had betrayed her.

Historians with virtual unanimity agree that the harshness toward Germany of the Paris peace treaty helped create the economic hardship, nationalistic reaction, and political chaos that fostered the rise of Adolf Hitler.

the boundary agreed between the king and his erstwhile enemy, Guthrum,

Auteuil (the southern sector of Paris's then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian W

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

Under the 1907 Hague Treaty a neutral is a neutral only so long as it can maintain its neutrality.

The treaty, however, did not contain an article dealing directly with runaway slaves reaching Texas.166 Most likely, this was because agreements concerning slavery were such a sensitive issue that they could derail critical territorial negotiations.

treaty of Campo Formio was signed in 1797, Napoleon had won fourteen battles, and had subjugated Italy.

The Russo-Japanese treaty of peace, signed at Portsmouth in August, 1905, registers the concession of all the vital points in the demands of the conquering nation.

RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world's earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible

The roots of the tangled relationship between Filipinos and Americans dated back nearly fifty years, to 1898 and the Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the Spanish-American War. The treaty gave the United States control over the Philippines, much to the chagrin of the Filipino people, who ached for independence after three centuries under Spanish rule.

Ibn al-Wahhab was not the godfather of contemporary terrorist movements. Rather, he was a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought. His vision of Islamic society was based upon monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were to enjoy peaceful co-existence and cooperative commercial treaty relations.

I believe it is peace in our time.

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

The explanatory panel adds that because the Temple of the Tranquil Seas was "the former site of negotiating the Treaty of Nanjing, the first unequal treaty of modern China, [it] has become a symbol of the commencement of China's modern history.

That conclusion can be substantiated by their actions in office; the abrogation of the anti-ballistic missile treaty, the vast buildup in military expenditures at the expense of other priorities that the majority might consider more important; the installation of a world-wide system of regional defense commands, and the insistence on developing weapons of incredible destruction for use in space.

The NATO treaty says that an attack on any party would automatically be regarded as an attack on all. Instead, the ANZUS treaty says only that an attack on any of the signatories would oblige the others to 'act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes'.

Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”