Sentence examples for turn for aid from inspiring English sources

Despite the Stuart family connections through Henrietta Maria and the Princess of Orange, France and the Dutch Republic allied themselves with Cromwell's government from 1654, forcing Charles to turn for aid to Spain, which at that time ruled the Southern Netherlands.

She turns for aid to the superpower, Athens, represented by its arrogant, patronising first citizen, Theseus.

Instead, the growers are turning for aid to the very antismoking advocates they once saw as mortal enemies.

In desperation the state turned for aid to those it had driven away.

Two years of sleeping rough, surviving on little or nothing, with no one to turn to for aid.

Ms. Wright contacted ShoreBank, which has a national reputation for operating profitably in low-income neighborhoods, and bank officials helped her apply with the S.B.A., which was one of the few programs the bank could turn to for aid.

This was due to concessions made by Joachim II in 1541 in turn for financial aid by the estates, however, the Kreditwerk went bankrupt between 1618 and 1625.

First, that dedicated funding could prove inadequate, forcing the program either to cut benefits or to turn to Congress for aid.

Dorothy is the real saviour of the book (Baum's wife, it's worth noting, was a prominent suffragist), but even when they've exposed the wizard as a fraud, she and her friends turn to him for aid.

Belarus turned to Russia for aid, but it was slow in coming.

Shuysky, in desperation, turned to Sweden for aid, promising territorial concessions along the Swedish-Muscovite border.