7 sentences with 'recognising'
Example sentences and phrases with the word recognising and other words derived from it.
• « From the Persian tradition, the Abbasid caliphs borrowed both the practical traditions of bureaucracy and administration and an equally important tradition of political status: they were the rulers of many peoples, recognising local identities while expecting deference and, of course, taxes. »
• « Charles V finally abdicated in 1558, and recognising that the Habsburg lands were almost ungovernable, handed over power to his brother Ferdinand I in Austria (Ferdinand also became Holy Roman Emperor) and to his son Philip II in Spain and its possessions. »
• « Richelieu made himself superintendent of trade and navigation, recognising the growing importance of trade in providing royal revenue. »
• « Elizabeth I died without an heir (she had never married, rightly recognising that marriage would undermine her own authority), so her successor was from the Scottish royal house of the Stuarts, fellow royals related to the Tudors. »
• « Left to their own devices, Lenin argued, workers alone would always settle for slight improvements in their lives and working conditions (this he called "trade union consciousness") rather than recognising the need for large-scale revolutionary change. The vanguard party, however, could both instruct the workers and lead them in the creation of a new society. »
• « Laws of a social nature: among the first acts of the Assembly (1813-1815) was that of recognising as free men all those who had been born in the territory of the River Plate since it was installed. This law, known as the law of freedom of the womb, was supplemented by another provision: slaves brought for sale as soon as they entered our territory were to be set free. »
• « Manuel José García was sent to Rio de Janeiro to negotiate the agreement. There, in May 1827, he signed a treaty recognising the definitive incorporation of the Banda Oriental (now Uruguay) into Brazil. »