9 sentences with “affairs”

Rome finally forced the issue in the mid-second century BCE by meddling in Carthaginian affairs.

Epicurus taught that even if the gods existed, they clearly had no interest in human affairs and therefore did not need to be feared.

Even the Ptolemies, the most genuinely independent power in the region, recognised that Rome had all the real power in international affairs.

Adam Smith also insisted that something in human affairs - the economy - operated according to rational and knowable laws that could be discovered and explained.

In 1566, Spanish interference in Dutch affairs led to Calvinist attacks on Catholic churches, which in turn led Philip II to send troops and the Inquisition to impose tougher control.

The Merovingians remained in power for 200 years. In the end, they became relatively weak and ineffective, with another clan, the Carolingians, running most of their political affairs.

However, the Macedonians tended to stay out of the political affairs of the other Greeks; they did not invade the Greek peninsula itself in their constant wars, nor did they take sides in conflicts such as the Peloponnesian War.

Finally, the Popes struggled to claim the right to intervene in secular affairs as they saw fit, though it was a struggle they rarely won, losing even more ground as the new, more powerful and centralised monarchies came to power in the 15th century.

For example, the Valois king, Henry II, ignored affairs of state in favour of hunting and was killed in a tournament (during a tournament, a splinter from a broken lance went through the crack in his helmet, impaling his eye - he died two weeks later from the subsequent infection), and other members of the dynasty were little more effective.