6 sentences with “rightly”

In the months that followed, British forces failed to make headway against the Ottomans, and the Ottoman leadership rightly felt that the very survival of the Ottoman state was at stake in the war.

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.

But not everything is a matter for criticism, says psychologist Marsha Linehan of the University of Washington. Missing a business appointment is rightly open to criticism, but the colour of the walls in your home is not, as it is a matter of taste.

It mattered little that, before Aristotle, other Greeks - Heraclides and Aristarchus - had conjectured a heliocentric theory (certainly closer to the truth), nor that Alcmeon of Crotona rightly considered the brain as the centre of intellect, will and affective life.

The cases of the Congo and the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples are rightly remembered, and studied by historians, as iconic expressions of imperialist violence, but they were only two of the most extreme and shocking examples of the pervasive violence that established and sustained all the imperial conquests of the time.

It is important to note that while both the British and the US supported the Greek government, the USSR gave no aid to the communist rebels, rightly fearing that doing so could lead to a much larger war. However, furious at what he saw as another example of Western capitalist imperialism, Stalin pulled the USSR out of the Bretton Woods economic agreement in early 1948.