8 sentences with 'declaring'
Example sentences and phrases with the word declaring and other words derived from it.
• « Louis XIV was called the Sun King, a term and image he actively cultivated, declaring himself "peerless", and being depicted as the sun god Apollo (he once performed as Apollo in a ballet before his nobles, to rapturous applause - he was an excellent dancer). »
• « Not only were the Scots well trained and organised, when parliament met it quickly turned against Charles, declaring his various laws and acts illegal and dismissing his ministers, an act remembered as "The Great Remonstrance". »
• « Napoleon considered himself the spiritual heir of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, declaring that, as a member of the "best race of Caesars", he was a founder of empires. »
• « His 1804 code of laws made women legal subjects of their fathers and then their husbands, declaring that the husband was to protect his wife and the wife was to obey her husband. »
• « Fighting continued between the Greek rebels and the Ottomans for some years, with European powers supporting the rebels (and Russia declaring war in 1829), and in 1833 the Ottomans finally relented and granted independence to Greece. »
• « By mid-1985 it contained $15,000. North did not recall ever declaring the money in the box as an asset, even on mortgage applications for the houses he and his wife had bought over the years. No charges were brought against North in connection with the car. »
• « The authors of the national Constitution established, in Article 19, the defence of personal liberty, declaring that the private actions of men, as long as they do not harm others, are only reserved to the judgement of God. »