Sentence examples for grant not to from inspiring English sources

On June 5, 1869 while Grant was traveling from New York to Boston, on The Providence, a ship owned by both Gould and Fisk, the two speculators urged Grant not to sell any gold from the Treasury and attempted to convince Grant that a high price of gold helped farmers and the Erie Railroad.

Alternatively, they could give me a grant not to.

Sherman recalls in his memoirs that he begged Grant not to strike his colors.

Sherman's exhorting words had not only repaid Grant for believing in him when he had faltered; they had also helped convince Grant not to quit on himself or surrender in the fight for the Union.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's new award in the humanities far surpasses the $950,000 Nobel grant, not to mention the $500,000 that the MacArthur Foundation gives to "geniuses".

The phrase dates back at least to 1886, and the writer Joel Garreau counts "at least six major, widely hailed, New Souths since Lee's surrender to Grant, not to mention the minor, trial-balloon, New Souths that the sad surplus of New Southern journalists float from time to time (everybody's got to eat)." But repetition does not make a label false.

He took the vagaries of the waters for granted, not to mention the supremacy of their force in flood.

The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads were both government-chartered companies that benefitted from large land grants, not to mention vast sums in government loans.

It was worked out by Americans who devote their careers and foundation grants not to struggling against narcotics but legalizing them under one camouflage or another.

Some EDPs give a percentage of their total grants not to the government but directly to INGOs that bring forth programs that fall into the sector approach as directed by the GoN.

At the close of Grant's two terms as president in 1877, the Republican-controlled Congress suggested that Grant not return to the White House for a third term.