7 sentences with 'altogether'
Example sentences and phrases with the word altogether and other words derived from it.
• « In the end, the Persians simply made peace with Athens in 448 BC, giving up their claim to the Greek colonies altogether and in turn eliminating the very reason the League had been born. »
• « The plague did not cease altogether until the early 18th century; to this day it is unclear what put an end to large-scale outbreaks of plague, although one theory is that a species of brown rat that was not as vulnerable to plague overwhelmed the older black rats that had infested Europe. »
• « While no one (yet) imagined rejecting the authority of the Church altogether, many people regarded the leadership of the Church as just another political institution. »
• « Likewise, many historians reject the idea of the gunpowder "revolution" altogether because it took more than a century, from the 15th century well into the 16th century, for it to actually materialise. »
• « Likewise, many princes realised that Protestantism often caused political problems in their territories; although many of the German princes had originally supported Luther to protect their own political independence, many others realised that the last thing they wanted were independent-minded denominations in their territories, some of which might reject their worldly authority altogether (as did the German peasants who rose up in 1524). »
• « Just as the Scientific Revolution had abandoned real empirical methods altogether in favour of simply endorsing old stereotypes about women's inferiority, the vast majority of male philosophers either ignored women in their writings altogether or argued that women should be kept in a subordinate social position. »
• « Having already lost control, the Assembly finally voted to abolish slavery altogether in February 1794. Thus, unlike the cases of Protestant and Jewish emancipation, racial equality was only "granted" by the Assembly because it could not be maintained by force. »