Sentence examples for remonstrances from inspiring English sources
'remonstrances' is a valid word in written English
It is a noun that means a strong or earnest protest or plea. Example sentence: I made a series of remonstrances to the board of directors, but they refused to change their policy.
noun
Plural of remonstrance
"Among his schoolfellows he was invariably a 'peacemaker,' he adjusted their misunderstandings, mediated in cases of extreme difficulty, with remonstrances and soothing kindness, and in more than one instance he is said to have thrown himself between infuriated urchins and restored harmony at the risk of personal injury to himself.
The next spring, on April 4, 1769, he sent Mason the Philadelphia nonimportation resolutions with a letter declaring that it was necessary to resist the strokes of "our lordly masters" in England; that, courteous remonstrances to Parliament having failed, he wholly endorsed the resort to commercial warfare; and that as a last resort no man should scruple to use arms in defense of liberty.
In 1673 Louis produced regulations stipulating that the court's remonstrances against royal enactments sent to it could in future be made only after the laws concerned had been registered.
After many futile remonstrances Metternich eventually yielded to the obstructionism of the emperor, who detested innovation and stood jealously on his dignity.
Under Massachusetts's influence, the Congress next adopted the Suffolk Resolves, recently voted in Suffolk county, Massachusetts, which for the first time put natural rights into the official colonial argument (hitherto all remonstrances had been based on common law and constitutional rights).
During the next four years he wrote numerous political tracts, including Discours au roi Charles (1572; "Discourse to King Charles") and Remonstrances aux estats pour la paix (1576; "Remonstrances on the Conditions for Peace").
This difference is underlined by Moses's remonstrance to Galahad: "Boy, you take a big chance.
There has been remonstrance but no sabre-rattling.But forbearance alone cannot be a long-term answer to the problem of Pakistan.
Like the sly Duke Vincentio in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", the Fed chairman wants to pull the strings of the economy quietly, without making "rash remonstrance" of his power.But what counts as rash, and what counts as measured, depends on your reading of the economy.
Each group had an allotted ten-minute remonstrance at Japan's official doorstep.
Most of the colony's trade in sugar was illegal; Rhode Island responded to this act with an official remonstrance admitting the illegality of most of the trade and stating that strict enforcement would wreck the colony's economy.
