Sentence examples for the capitulations from inspiring English sources

The Capitulations exempted foreigners and those Ottoman citizens on whom foreign consuls conferred protection from the application of criminal law.

Under the capitulations, European and American residents in Egypt were exempt from local taxation and were subject only to their own consular courts.

Functioning under strict price regulations, the guilds were unable to provide quality goods at prices low enough to compete with the cheap European manufactured goods that entered the empire without restriction because of the Capitulations agreements.

Foreign traders were encouraged by the Capitulations, which gave them certain legal rights and privileges (for instance, to be tried in their own courts), and they too began to settle in the city.

But taken in conjunction with the activities of European-controlled banks and with the tariff limitations imposed on the Ottomans by the Capitulations, the result was a distinct restriction on Ottoman ability to guide the allocation of resources.

By terms of the capitulations of Riga and Revel (now Tallinn), Swedish sovereignty was ended and the provinces incorporated into the Russian Empire; the local German landed nobility and urban patriciate were confirmed in their historic corporate privileges.

THE capitulation came suddenly.

The capitulation was announced on September 8.

So unexpected was the capitulation that the Moderns became suspicious.

Ultimately, internal feuding led to the capitulation even of Widukind.

There was caution, however, over the scale of the capitulation.