7 sentences with 'agreements'
Example sentences and phrases with the word agreements and other words derived from it.
• « Access to the commons was not based on written laws, but on the traditional, centuries-old agreements that governed interactions between different social classes. »
• « The rise of Turkish power in the east posed a problem for the east-west trade routes that Italian cities had benefited from since the time of the Crusades and, despite the agreements reached between Venice and the Ottomans, the profits to be made from the trade in spices and luxury goods diminished (at least for the Italians) over time. »
• « These agreements were the origin of the 'capitulation agreements' that would eventually prove to be a major weakness for the Ottoman state, but were originally established to foster economic dynamism among minority religious communities. »
• « Those who lost out under absolutism were the peasants: especially in Central and Eastern Europe, the freedoms the peasants had enjoyed before 1650 were increasingly eroded as the new absolutist monarchs reached agreements with their nobility ratifying the nobility's right to control the peasantry completely. »
• « During the early years of his rule, Napoleon presented himself to his subjects as a reformer and a leader who, while protecting France's borders, had ended the war with the other European powers and imposed peace agreements with the Austrians and the British that were favourable to France. »
• « Russia wrested control of the Caucasus region from Persia (permanently, as it turned out) in 1813, and subsequently imposed capitulation agreements on Persia that were a direct parallel to those that so hobbled the Ottomans to the west. »
• « Among these interprovincial agreements was the one signed in November 1820 at the Tiburcio Benegas ranch between Buenos Aires and Santa Fe to re-establish peace and support the meeting of a general congress in Córdoba, which had been unsuccessfully proposed by the governor of that province, Juan Bautista Bustos. »