Sentence examples for entente powers from inspiring English sources

Thenceforth, they could be called the Allied, or Entente, powers, or simply the Allies.

That is a fair and balanced view of how the three Entente powers read the events of July 1914.

After a U.S. offer of general mediation had miscarried in December 1916, Charles tried through secret channels to deal directly with the Triple Entente powers.

German attempts to break the encirclement, however, would only alarm the entente powers and cause them to draw the loose strings into a knot.

The roots of current catastrophes in the Middle East, he writes, are conventionally attributed to the postwar cynicism of the entente powers.

It was only the idiocy of the German military and their resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare that pushed him reluctantly towards the entente powers.

Furthermore, the United States joined the war in April 1917, which gave the Triple Entente greater power.

The Dutch hoped that the restrained policy of the Entente and Central Powers during the First World War might be repeated and tried to avoid the attention of the Great Powers and a war in which they feared a loss of human life comparable to that of the previous conflict.

By the Entente Cordiale both powers reduced the virtual isolation into which they had withdrawn—France involuntarily, Great Britain complacently while they had eyed each other over African affairs: Great Britain had had no ally but Japan (1902), useless if war should break out in European waters; France had had none but Russia, soon to be discredited in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 05.

He speculated that a late entry into the war could also bring Romania possession of Bessarabia, large swathes of the Ukraine, and Odessa harbor; and even that, once victorious against the Entente, the Central Powers would award her an extra-European colonial empire.

In a telegram to his naval commanders on 27 July placing the navy at a heightened state of readiness, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill warned that the current political situation "makes war between Triple Entente and Triple Alliance powers by no means impossible".