6 sentences with 'outbreak'
Example sentences and phrases with the word outbreak and other words derived from it.
• « From the depths of his mind an idea was emerging, which at last he perceived as a sudden outbreak. »
• « Another group that benefited was women. For about a century after the plague, women had more legal rights in terms of property, the right to engage in trade, and land ownership, than they had enjoyed before the outbreak of the plague. »
• « Before the outbreak of the war, there was an uneasy truce in the Holy Roman Empire between the Catholic emperor, who had limited power outside his own ancestral lands (Habsburgs), and the numerous Protestant princes in their respective, mostly northern, territories. »
• « The period following German unification, from 1871 until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, was a period in which the great European powers jockeyed for position, increased their respective military might and jostled for overseas territory ahead of their rivals. Gone were the days of the Congress System and the balance of power based on the desire for peace. »
• « In short, thanks to feminist agitation, women had secured a legal identity and significant legal rights in at least some of the countries of Europe, and the United States, by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, but as mentioned above, only in two Scandinavian countries could they still vote. »
• « In the 1830s, 40 per cent of the total value of India's exports took the form of opium, leading to the outbreak of the first major war between a European power, namely Britain, and the Chinese empire. »