9 sentences with 'affairs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word affairs and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « Epicurus taught that even if the gods existed, they clearly had no interest in human affairs and therefore did not need to be feared. »
• « Rome finally forced the issue in the mid-second century BCE by meddling in Carthaginian affairs. »
• « Even the Ptolemies, the most genuinely independent power in the region, recognised that Rome had all the real power in international affairs. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « Adam Smith also insisted that something in human affairs - the economy - operated according to rational and knowable laws that could be discovered and explained. »