9 sentences with 'treaty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word treaty and other words derived from it.
• « In fact, for more than a century, most Germanic "kings" were, officially, Roman officials recognised by treaty from the legal and diplomatic perspective of Constantinople. That said, the "Roman" emperors of Constantinople had many legal pretexts to consider those kings as usurpers as well, since the recognition treaties were often full of loopholes. »
• « For the first time, the caliphate signed a peace treaty with a non-Muslim state; this was an important precedent because it established the idea that a Muslim state could recognise the political legitimacy of a non-Muslim one. »
• « However, as the power of the French monarchy grew in the west and the Ottoman Turks became an active threat in the east, the most powerful cities signed a treaty, the Peace of Lodi, in 1454 that committed each city to the defence of the existing political order. »
• « From 1799 to 1802, he defeated Austrian and British forces and secured a peace treaty from both powers, which lasted long enough for him to organise a new grand strategy to conquer not only all of continental Europe, but also (he hoped) Britain. That treaty lasted until late 1805, when a new coalition of Britain, Austria and Russia was formed to oppose him. »
• « The Austrians were forced to sign a treaty and Vienna itself was occupied by French forces for a short time, while Russian Tsar Alexander I worked to build a new army. »
• « In 1889, the Italians signed a treaty with the Ethiopian emperor, Menelik II, but the treaty contained different wording in Italian and Amharic (Ethiopia's main language): the Italian version stipulated that Ethiopia would become an Italian colony, while the Amharic version simply opened diplomatic ties with Europe through Italy. »
• « Once he learned of the deception, Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II repudiated the treaty, simultaneously directing his government's resources to the acquisition of modern weapons and European mercenary captains willing to train his army. »
• « In Asia, something comparable happened, but on an even larger scale. In 1853, in the quintessential example of "gunboat diplomacy", a US naval admiral, Matthew Perry, forced Japan to sign a treaty opening it to contact with the West through thinly-veiled threats. »
• « The situation became more complicated for the Buenos Aires Junta when news of the defeat suffered at Huaqui reached them and Elío asked the Portuguese monarchy in Brazil for help. This led, in October 1811, to the Junta signing a treaty with Elío in which it was agreed that Buenos Aires would withdraw its troops from the Banda Oriental, that the Portuguese would do the same with theirs and that the Montevideo ships would not blockade Buenos Aires. »