9 sentences with 'declare'
Example sentences and phrases with the word declare and other words derived from it.
• « However, radical elements in the National Assembly anticipated war and persuaded the Assembly to declare pre-emptive war on Austria in April 1792; Prussia soon joined in an alliance with Austria against France. »
• « Bismarck encouraged Austria in a conflict for control of a region of northwest Germany, recently seized from Denmark, and got the Austrians to declare war on Prussia. »
• « Since governments generally stepped in to declare protectorates and colonies after mercantile interests went under, the cost of maintaining empire grew along with the territorial claims themselves. »
• « In September 1941, Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact. The Pact stipulated that any of the three powers would declare war on a neutral country that declared war on one of the others. »
• « In practice, Germany hoped that the pact would make American politicians think twice before joining Britain in the war effort. In retrospect, it backfired on Germany, as the Japanese attack on the United States led Germany to honour its agreement and declare war on the United States as well: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941, and Germany was forced to declare war on the US (his advisors urged Hitler not to do so, but blithely asserted that Japan had never lost a war and victory was now assured for the Axis). »
• « The first acts of the congress showed their decision to declare the country's independence as soon as possible, as was the wish of the patriots grouped in the Logia Lautaro, and to constitute and organise the new nation. »
• « The situation in the Assembly became more difficult when the deputies from the Banda Oriental arrived with a mandate to declare independence. As the majority resolved to reject them, Artigas and his supporters broke with the Buenos Aires government. »
• « In a correspondence to Godoy Cruz he wrote: "How long will we wait to declare our independence! Don't you think it is ridiculous to mint money, to have a flag and a national flag, and finally, to make war on the sovereign on whom we believe we depend? What more do we need than to say it? »