How To Use Affair In A Sentence

Warner wrote from Egypt expressing sympathy for their unfurnished state of affairs, but added, "I would rather fit out three houses and fill them with furniture than to fit out one 'dahabiyeh'. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
If we got into Ceram (and got out again), the doctor would reduce the whole affair to a few tables of anthropological measurements, a few more hampers of birds, beasts, and native rubbish in the hold, and a score of paragraphs couched in the evaporated, millimetric terms of science. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
We have no interest in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.

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Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life, an execrable test of value.
He admitted to five different affairs and countless visits to massage parlors for ‘full-body’ massages.
Murder, rape, road rage, dacoities and rampant acts of terrorism have become an everyday affair in all the provincial capitals including the federal capital. Whether A Dictator Or Democrat: Please Explain
I could continue this yo-yo description of euroland affairs were it not that I will run out of good news to juxtapose against the bad. Euroland Should Prepare for More Ups and Downs in Its Yo-Yo Economy
His interest in public affairs, especially in social questions, was keener.
Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
The affair ended in rancour and recrimination. Times, Sunday Times
If you will undertake the affair, I shall be very grateful.
The Germans also launched a maladroit effort to entice Mexico into the war, exposed by the Zimmermann telegraph affair.
It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
After being faced with the "extortionate" demand, Lee and others at his resort called the Canadian consulate and department of foreign affairs emergency line, only to be told to pay up Toronto Sun
And second, it's probably not good to intervene in the internal affairs of a nation that is looking for a worthy path of development.
Obviously economic security cannot be a one-sided affair. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
He is a government affairs consultant, and a past president and COO of a banking software consulting firm.
A glance at any probate casebook will demonstrate how often solicitous distant relatives, keen to do fetching and carrying as well as to sort out troublesome financial affairs, show up in the declining years of lonely old people.
The national monetary sovereignty fully belongs to domestic affairs of a state, and the nation has the right of exerting its monetary sovereignty independently.
Overall, this is a clumsy, uneven affair which, by the time the final credits roll, grates.
The ruling dynasties and aristocracies required an essential stability in international as well as domestic affairs.
After glittering premieres in London and Leeds, this was a much more low-key affair as the cinema only seats 250 people, so invitations were strictly limited.
It was no affair of his that she had left the London studio in the capable hands of her assistant.
We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
In the past it has refused to interfere in the country 's internal affairs but may be softening its position. Times, Sunday Times
Hereafter, Manchester United's historic 19th league title must be asterisked, on the basis that we cannot know how the table would have panned out had Giggs's affair been exposed earlier in the season. The Ryan Giggs story was not run with any noble intentions | Marina Hyde
The only other scores of a hard-fought, if unspectacular affair, arrived in the opening 13 minutes of the second half.
Played in horrible conditions with gusting gales and sweeping rain this was never going to be a pretty affair.
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
As befitting these sleepiest of islands, visiting is an informal affair. Times, Sunday Times
And do not forget that Ferry's bandmate Brian Eno is Nick Clegg's youth affairs adviser. Archive 2008-11-01
As it happens, Hicks was the first in what would become a long line of "difficult" men to whom Murdoch was attracted, culminating in a long affair with Elias Canetti, the future Nobel Prize-winner. The Good Apprentice
But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs.
The motion had particularly pleased Mobuto who was desperate to bring Zimbala back into world affairs.
Ten years ago I would have said that this sad state of affairs was irremediable, at least for the immediate future.
This competitive logic of power politics makes agreement on universal principles difficult, apart from the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other sovereign states.
One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom. Is Something Better Than Nothing?
The restaurant is the best; an old-fashioned wood-and-leather affair with a horseshoe bar.
Uncle and aunt have moved back up north to have another go after her affair. Times, Sunday Times
In an affair which the Italian press have dubbed "Rubygate", she is reported to have attended dinners at Mr Berlusconi's private villa outside Milan, where she allegedly witnessed group sex games which the prime minister and his entourage nicknamed "bunga-bunga Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
England, and she kept Susan Talbot and her children in what she called their meet place, in which that good lady thoroughly acquiesced, having her hands much too full of household affairs to run after queens. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
He proposes that this area would not involve agreement to the common agricultural policy, common foreign and security policy, justice or home affairs. Times, Sunday Times
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
That delights the band's publicist who has been telling us that this is a return to the era when album launches were hyper-expensive, orgiastic affairs that lasted all day and are still remembered.
This year is the centennial for a treaty under which Japan deprived Korea of its power to conduct foreign affairs, a prelude to Japan's annexation of the Korean Peninsula in 1910.
As far as demonstrations go, it was no big deal and, with no reports of the well-practised Belgian police water cannons in action, it was a pretty tame affair. Damned either way
On 25 January 2008 a musical play about the love affair between Robert Burns and Nancy McLehose entitled “Clarinda”, written by Mike Gibb and Kevin Walsh, premiered in Edinburgh before touring Scotland. Robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The board has so misconducted the affairs of the company that it's deep in debt.
The Tourist was impressive ... but this is even better, a dazzling, dizzyingly complex world of clandestine warfare that is complicated further by the affairs of the heart. The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer: Book summary
His financial affairs are in a tangle.
You had to rebush the rod if the slack was excessive, or rebore the big end if it was split - all of which you hoped could be deferred until the entire affair had to be dismantled for white-lead testing.
Edward's affair and subsequent marriage to divorced Mrs Simpson had left the family's popularity at an all-time low.
One ship sinks, many sailors die, and Martin points out to Candide that the gruesome affair further proves his point.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, also look and rethink over the existing involvement, efficiency, effectivity and also carrying and delivery capacity of chief district officer, who are the chief of district security system, to encounter the state of occlusion. Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
After the feast was over, we had kava, and the calling of the kava was a very elaborate affair, and I thought had like to have made Vailima Letters
Then she finds her hubby is having an affair and at 42, she feels too old for men. The Sun
The love affair was company-wide, although not necessarily shared by the grunts, as one former grunt writes.
He also commented on the depressing state of affairs concerning preservation of blaxploitation pics, with something like 200 of the 270+ films he cataloged from the era being unavailable (at least without some serious digging).
To entrust such commercial affairs to a non-executive board "has potentially disastrous consequences".
It's a low budget affair and so the hotel was unpretentious and homely and cheap.
Putting it on is a rather simple affair, but unless you have tiny hands, there isn't much clearance between the fan and PCB to pinch the tab to remove the dongle.
Once upon a time, in the heyday of unitards and medicine balls, intercollegiate games were private affairs, held in basement gyms or on remote lawns, and if anyone bothered to go and watch, it was an athlete's dad or girlfriend or roommate.
I thought about Clinton and how weak of attempt he made when asking for forgiveness and how he was not forthright from the get go in regards to his ex marital affair. Archive 2008-03-01
Citizenship of the Union was to be established and close co-operation on justice and home affairs was to be developed.
But we'd like to raise our voice so that everyone can share and recognize the challenges we have in front of us so that all of the interested parties can talk," Kimihiro Ishikane, deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs, said in an interview. Japan to Take Assertive Stance Toward China
He hadn't travelled far in love himself and was still curious about everything to do with affairs of the heart. A DEAD LIBERTY
Some of the professors at a local university are distraught over the state of affairs here.
And in his stable at Ascot the son of Sleeping Dove, from home for the first time, pondered on the mutability of equine affairs, closing and opening his eyes, and breathing without sound in the strawy dark, above the black cat he had brought to bear him company. Swan Song
The newspapers exaggerated the whole affair wildly.
I am a current affairs and news junkie. Times, Sunday Times
But the lives of our saints, independently altogether of the momentous change in human affairs and prospects which they ushered in, have a substantial hold on history, of which neither the classical nor the northern hierology can boast. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
What is difficult to overlook is her record of being totally ineffective as a four-term assemblywomen, her inability or unwillingness to work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many others. Mitchell Bard: The Tea Party All-Stars: The Worst of Extreme GOP Midterm Candidates
If complementizer phrases denote propositions or possible states of affairs, then it is reasonable to assume that being good simpliciter is being a good state of affairs, and hence that it is a special case of attributive good. Value Theory
After a long time, having obtained with difficulty the consent of the timid Du Mont, I made Madame de Saint-Simon speak to the Duchesse de Bourgogne, who undertook to arrange the affair as well as it could be arranged. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
The pair escape to his rooftop garret and, free from the cares of the world, begin a passionate love affair.
I wouldn't disclose that, that's part of our financial affairs.
He was a liar and a robber in business; she had heard the Minister for Business Affairs describe him that way to Philip. MURDER SONG
This determinateness of arrangement is the structure of a state of affairs.
Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
While it's uncertain whether the protest and subsequent meeting will prevent cuts, the way the governor's staff handled the whole affair is instructive: I'm told that technically they could have been arrested for blocking the way.
Your strength in personal affairs is your ability to build a well-knit, solid relationship that endures and continues to thrive year after year.
The ‘Tipton three’ may be telling a pack of lies, but this affair is so murky and so many backs are being covered that it is very difficult to form any kind of coherent judgement.
It's just going to be a dead-end affair for you and you deserve better. The Sun
As the Irish say, we'll have a very big hooley when the millionth person gets water," Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal told a media briefing today. ANC Daily News Briefing
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires on Thursday to protest against what it called the confiscation of Ebadi's Nobel medal and diploma and express 'grave concern' about the treatment of her husband. Khaleej Times : UAE News
The studio built a movie theater on the island, and it was no makeshift affair.
His set was a rather more dour affair. Times, Sunday Times
We all are interested in the status of world affairs.
It was as if the suspicious affair which was impassioning the Chamber had no concern for him. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
The affair rests a mystery.
It took several years before we were able to reinstate a comprehensive schedule of public affairs programming on public television.
A bilateral co-operation agreement, covering trade, education, cultural affairs and aviation was signed during the visit.
Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor.
What does 'internal affair' really mean? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'What does \'internal affair\' really mean? ' What does 'internal affair' really mean?
We must try to forget this sad affair.
For they have become the indispensable actor in world affairs. Times, Sunday Times
One calendar year up to 31 December, 1996 was selected to show the pre-computerisation state of affairs.
Potiphar discovers that Joseph is surprisingly honest, diligent and bright for a common slave, and puts him in charge of all the affairs of his house. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Deception And Desire: An Overview Of Genesis
The centre is a joint initiative by the Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service and Department for Constitutional Affairs and will dispense justice to anti-social louts and low-level criminals.
Congressional Democrats have resisted impeachment considerations, recalling the acrimonious division when a Republican Congress impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Bush's Disapproval Hits Rare Heights; Only Nixon and Truman Scored Worse
Most people have affairs for selfish reasons. Times, Sunday Times
Those of us who had the honour and the rare advantage of knowing him intimately and well over many years find, upon looking back upon that vast experience, something unique, over and above the learning, over and above the application of that learning to Thomism, which is surely the very heart of the Dominican affair. Belloc Speaks - To the Undying Memory
But there can seldom have been more fulsome affair than the $275 a head extravaganza last week to celebrate John Howard's 30 years in parliament.
In this regard, the political camps ought to tackle the issue of changing the presidential election system only after they help state affairs run smoothly and efficiently.
He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day, his camera capturing images of locksmiths, shoemakers, barbers, tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.
As she begins to pick apart the web of secrets, lies, and love affairs uncovered in the wake of her trial, Betsy suspects that her tight-lipped neighbors may know something that she has denied even to herself. Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern: Book summary
I use the word in its connotation of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs.
It was a suave, sophisticated affair with no riff-raff allowed in the door.
Our wedding season is a year-round affair these days as people are choosing to get married in the chillier aka windier months of the year. Wedding Cake of the Day
Rick had also checked the mine's setting device, a tube-like affair sunk lengthwise into the body of the metal casing. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
The affair has provoked calls from teachers' unions for a rethink of the tests and the importance they are given in selecting teachers.
During the war, when he was the most famous journalist in London, he had a series of affairs with refugee women living out the war in the bombed-out city.
De Soto and his captains are probably concluding that this is going to be a long and drawn-out affair. Fire The Sky
This company is by Beijing Traffic department, Beijing transports the tube department, the industry and commerce tax affairs to authorize the be established large-scale Transport company.
Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs.
In a letter to the Super Committee, Congressman Howard Berman D-CA, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, In this period of belt-tightening and economic uncertainty, some seem to think that foreign assistance is a luxury we can no longer afford. Regan Hofmann: How President Obama Makes Love, Not War, by Pledging to End AIDS
Such a state of affairs could explain the responses in pernicious anemia obtained by feeding large amounts of autolyzed yeast-extract, as shown, for example, by Ungley. George R. Minot - Nobel Lecture
At the same time, the governor's unconventional decision to leave office without completing a term raises questions about the viability of such a run -- and about the state of the GOP field, following revelations of extramarital affairs recently by two other potential contenders. Governor's Move Highlights GOP Divide
Their affair is just a summer fling, he tells his mother - nothing serious.
The Ministry for CHT Affairs (MoCHTA) also issued a memo instructing district-level officials to not use the terms "Adivasi" or "indigenous" in any government documents, and instead to use the word "upajati. Drishtipat Writers' Collective
Practice was a sullen affair, conducted with an almost funereal lack of enthusiasm. Times, Sunday Times
Last year my husband owned up to a secret affair with his secretary.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has already communicated on this event with the American President.
I am a gay man, having an affair with a guy seven years older.
The party was a very grand affair.
They had been conducting a casual affair for years.
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
At regular shire and hundred meetings royal orders were implemented and local affairs, including the administration of justice, transacted.
Their marriage fell apart when she found out about her husband's affair.
They had the right to administer their own internal affairs.
Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
The sordid affair had wrecked my life for too long. The Sun
You are advised to think twice about trying to fan the embers of a dying love affair.
He perceived that the Liberal ministry had offended certain influential sections by appearing too demiss or too unenterprising in foreign affairs. Archaism.
With so much on the line I expect the games to be very cagey, tactical affairs for the first hour or so. The Sun
If this does come about, the ensuing paralysis will surely be an apposite commentary on the unhappy state of affairs we have reached where no party seems to deserve to govern us.
Lunch was a buffet affair, with players coming and going. Times, Sunday Times
The establishment contained no department of foreign affairs.
There were the Knights of the Round Table, vowed to the highest ideals of chivalry, and the greatest of them, Sir Lancelot, who, of course, has a tragic love affair with the Queen.
The application of mathematics to trade and financial affairs is as old as mathematics itself.
Equally, there are those who conduct their affairs with imagination and equanimity.
Many ordinary investors stand to lose money in this affair.
My husband confessed he'd been having an affair with a woman in his office.
As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
To be reliable, a cognitive mechanism must enable a person to discriminate or differentiate between incompatible states of affairs.
Lipton survived the affair and told shareholders the incident had happened years before and the practice had been given up.
Both the United States and Britain insist that, to keep the country from imploding, it is essential that the Balkan nation remain under the political authority of an internationally appointed "High Representative," who governs the nation's affairs. Elmira Bayrasli: Electing an Independent Bosnia: The High Representative Must Go
Automobile enthusiasts, aficionados, and followers could aberrate themselves from the accepted affairs of their accustomed lives and appear calm through this blog. Auto Parts Online, Auto Parts Online Blog Updating Consumers
Long-term planning is always rather a hit-or-miss affair.
The money is divided among departments such as Welfare, Water Affairs and Public Works, which are involved in job creation programmes and poverty relief.
She too endured harsh criticism and partisan pressure for becoming openly involved in public affairs.
Critics of Reich say his appointment as the State Department's top Latin American policymaker has more to do with domestic politics than foreign affairs. The Right Man For Latam?
Along the route ending in Parliament Square, five giant video screens were erected relaying selected images from the carefully stage-managed affair.
Learning to fence was the consummation of a love affair I'd had with swordplay ever since Errol Flynn first swashbuckled his way across my late-night TV screen as Captain Blood.
The Presbyterian merchant sought to follow ethical principles in all his business affairs and to make merchandising a public service.
Winner of Best Politics Blog and Best News & Current Affairs Blog order of business in the Dail is the worst political failure I have seen: Irish Blogs
If, however, his Majesty were willing, as they hoped, to avoid discontenting all for the sake of satisfying one, it was possible that affairs might yet prosper. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
He did a 180 on the death penalty; cozied up to the politically connected Hasidic Jewish community; placed a former borough president on his payroll as "Director of Community and Civic Affairs" at $125,000 a year; and actually indicted his election opponents. Len Levitt: Jabbar Collins: The Sins of Joe Hynes?
Setting up your Google Account in GST is a quick affair. Archive 2010-01-01
But presidential elections are quadrennial affairs, whereas Superbowls happened annually.
Before his facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside. Chapter 2
If, improbably, he had thought that private affairs could have first attention and public business be left to aestivate the summer through, developments on the frontier soon would have aroused him. Washington
Burgess-Dunne aeroboat, the property of Vincent Astor; also Mr. Astor's skilful services as pilot, which he generously offered through his interest in naval affairs and because of his desire to give the world this first account of a sea battle observed from the sky. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
In spite of everything, Burun felt depressed by the whole affair and could not understand why.
Not so if it's just so much tittle-tattle about essentially private affairs. News of the World vs. WikiLeaks
The foreign affairs committee also accused the foreign office of hindering its investigation into the government report, whose findings were published last December. Times, Sunday Times
But he gets more than he bargained for when his photographic evidence unearths a surprisingly saucy affair. The Sun
It is at delicate moments in world affairs, such as this, that expressions of widespread dissent from opinion-formers can become a real political force.
Precisely, my diaphanous polyandrist; but it isn't quite your own affair what you laugh at -- not if I know it! The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today.
I hardly watch any television, aside from news and current affairs.
Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
This notion of sovereignty considers inviolate the internal affairs of nations.
Don is especially receptive to Megan's beguilement after settling affairs at Anna's house and getting the ring from Stephanie. Finale Watch: Mad Men, Rubicon
Having long had this match penciled in as a win, and on the back of two stirring victories, we were chock-a-block full of confidence that our recent good record against the Hooped Affair was going to continue.
They are just ordinary bods and, like ordinary bods the world over, they have affairs.
His love affair with manhole covers had begun. Times, Sunday Times
It is not anti-military, but it does reflect–to a biassed extent–the "ugly American" construal of US intervention in global affairs. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
Our President has no intention of intervening in your internal affairs.
Thus, the private demand curve of an individual is not a simple affair.
His was the dominant personality and influence on affairs. Times, Sunday Times
The president-elect is expected to name [Cass] Sunstein — his friend and informal adviser — to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a transition official said late Wednesday. Matthew Yglesias » Cass Sunstein to OIR
The eighteenth century was thus a period of slow evolution rather than radical change in military affairs.
That is why the scramble to calm anger by launching an official inquiry has become such a tangled affair. Times, Sunday Times
Claiming he was willing to put that behind him, Raggio added, "What is difficult to overlook is [Angle's] record of being totally ineffective as a four-term assemblywoman, her inability or unwillingness to work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many others. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
His smugness about the whole affair made us see red.
As for Spain, she was hard pressed; French and American emissaries had stirred up strife in her colonies; and affairs were most "ticklish" in San Domingo. William Pitt and the Great War
Weddings are usually large, expensive affairs paid for by the groom's family.
But at the moment when no precaution should have been relaxed, a despatch from the West India directors, who appear to have been misled by advices from London, announced that no danger need be apprehended from the English expedition, as it was sent out by the King only to settle the affairs of his colonies and establish episcopacy, which would rather benefit the company's interests in New Netherlands. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
Silva issued a statement denying all knowledge of the affair.
In the 1930s, American politics were characterized by isolationism in foreign policy and a preoccupation with internal affairs.
He was lionized by aristocratic and literary London, survived a hectic love affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, and became the constant companion of Augusta.

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