7 sentences with 'treaties'
Example sentences and phrases with the word treaties and other words derived from it.
• « Many of the Germanic peoples who settled along these frontiers were known as foederati, tribal groups who entered into treaties with Rome requiring them to pay taxes in kind (i.e. in crops, animals and other forms of wealth rather than in currency) and to send troops to aid Roman conquests, and who received peace and recognition (and usually annual gifts) in return. »
• « The problem for Rome was that most Germanic peoples regarded treaties as something that lasted only as long as the emperor who had authorised them lived; on his death, raiding often followed, as the old peace terms no longer held. The first task the new emperors had to attend to was often to suppress the latest invasion from the north. »
• « Even the Franks, who ruled a kingdom at the other end of Europe furthest from Constantinople's reach, lived in genuine fear of a Byzantine invasion, since the treaties they had made with Constantinople were full of loopholes and could be repudiated by any emperor. »
• « A patchwork of peace treaties across most of Europe had established the principle of princes determining the acceptable religion within their respective territories, but these treaties in no way represented anything recognisable today as 'toleration' - in fact, all parties believed they had exclusive access to spiritual truth. »
• « Through long, slow territorial expansion and unilateral treaties with Indian princes, the British East India Company ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent by 1840. »
• « As the arms race between the superpowers continued, with a further escalation during the 1980s, both sides concluded several treaties that also limited the pace of nuclear weapons production. »
• « Establishing a workable foreign and trade policy under the Articles of Confederation also proved difficult. Each state could decide for itself whether to honour treaties between Congress and foreign countries, and there was no means of enforcing them. »