Example sentences of "[art] thirty years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 2 | The immediate cause of the Thirty Years Peace with Sparta was Athens ' extreme vulnerability in 446 . |
| 3 | The Thirty Years Peace meant , for Athens , the end of the central Greek land empire , the end of the plan to control Delphi through the Amphictyony , the end of the Athenian outposts in the Peloponnese . |
| 4 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 6 | After all spondai , meaning literally libations , was the Greek word for treaties , like the Thirty Years Peace , which would have been broken by unprovoked coercion of Megara . |
| 7 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 8 | Kings who showed independence risked the fate of Pleistoanax , exiled in 446 — most unfairly , because Sparta ratified his provisional settlement with Athens , which became the Thirty Years Peace ( p. 46 ) . |
| 9 | His chapter reviewing the thirty years controversy that had followed Murchison 's work demonstrates Horne 's judicial cast of mind , as the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing views are clearly set out . |
| 10 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |
| 11 | The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War . |
| 12 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 13 | Wedgewood 's great account of the Thirty Years War . |
| 14 | The militarism and caste rigidity which has been the bane of Germany in Europe , has its roots in the Thirty Years War . |
| 15 | That done , he crossed the Rhine at Breisach and in four extraordinary campaigns brought an end to the Thirty Years War . |
| 16 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 17 | When Ferdinand II attempted to impose Catholicism on largely Protestant Bohemia , the citizens of Prague rebelled , thereby opening the struggles of the Thirty Years War . |
| 18 | The Thirty Years War was more a symptom than a cause of processes already well advanced . |
| 19 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 20 | And , when he said he could , went on to enquire whether he could also remember the Thirty Years War . |
| 21 | That event is usually seen as the beginning of the Thirty Years War . |
| 22 | The parish church ( Pfarrkirche S. Veit ) is one of the oldest examples of Austrian baroque , built during the first decade of the Thirty Years War , although the interior fittings and paintings are largely work of the eighteenth-century high baroque . |
| 23 | In The Thirty Years War , C. V. Wedgewood suggests that Austria was ruined as the potential leader of a German-speaking Mittel-Europa by the dynastic linkage of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 24 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 25 | Perhaps the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years War was the first to acknowledge the emergence of an international order which legitimated State sovereignty . |
| 26 | The armoury was founded by Altgraf Ernst Salentin ( 1621–84 ) who inherited and began restoring the castle in 1645 following the damage of the Thirty Years War . |
| 27 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 28 | The town was occupied by the Austrians in 1548 , and besieged by the Swedes in 1633 during the Thirty Years War . |
| 29 | Kreuzlingen 's Augustinian priory , founded in the tenth century , was a victim of that siege during the Thirty Years War , and the present building , erected soon after , now houses a college . |
| 30 | In 1627 Schütz composed Martin Opitz 's German adaptation of Rinuccini 's old Dafne libretto ( see p. 271 ) for the wedding of a Saxon princess at Hartenfels , near Torgau , but the Thirty Years War was no time for the birth of German opera and Schütz 's score is lost . |