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terms and truce
John Casimir's heart was not in the fight, and agreed to a truce, the Treaty of Bila Tserkva, with Khmelnytsky, on favourable terms to the Cossacks.
Count Ferdinand remained imprisoned following his defeat, while King John obtained a five year truce, on very lenient terms given the circumstances.
Neither side was keen to continue the conflict, and following a papal truce the two leaders met in January 1200 to negotiate possible terms for peace.
Neither side could agree to terms, despite the Ayyubid offer of a thirty-year truce and the restoration of Jerusalem and most of the rest of the former kingdom.
He travelled in the suite of the Pope during the papal visit to Nice, where Paul III was promoting a truce between François I and Charles V. He then accompanied the young Cardinal Farnese on a trip to Spain, France and the Spanish Netherlands to help implement the terms of the truce.
Shouting terms at each other, they could not reach agreement on the terms of a permanent truce, but did agree to further mediation, which resulted in a five year truce.
Count Ferdinand remained imprisoned following his defeat, while King John obtained a five year truce, on very lenient terms given the circumstances.
To save their lives, under a flag of truce, a British officer offers surrender terms to Pierre Cambronne ( Yevgeny Samoilov ), who replies with the famous " mot de Cambronne ".
This forced the Romans to capitulate, and in September 1144, Lucius agreed to Roger ’ s terms, negotiating a seven-year truce.
However after Maria's death in 963, the truce had been shaken and Peter I sent his sons Boris and Roman in Constantinopole, as honorary hostages, to honor the new terms of the peace treaty.
By the terms of the Geneva Accord ( 1954 ), which ended the Indochina War, France and the Viet Minh agreed to a truce and to a separation of forces.
Although parliament, as expected, disavowed the terms of the truce, no blame was attached to Monck's recognition of military necessity.
Pursuant to the terms of the truce for administration within the disputed area, the Maine Legislature on 6 April 1839 created an armed civil posse.
Neither side fulfilled the terms of the truce, leaving many of the issues unresolved.
Agreeing to a truce, Tiberius provided an escort to the Avar envoys to discuss the terms of a treaty with Justin.
The terms of the concluded truce required the Arabs to evacuating those islands in the Aegean they had seized, as well as an annual tribute to the Emperor consisting of fifty slaves, fifty horses and 3, 000 pounds of gold.
All the preparations had been made when Murad's envoys arrived in the royal camp at Szeged and offered a ten years ' truce on advantageous terms.
Under the terms of the Truce, the United Provinces were to be regarded as a sovereign power for the duration of the truce.
Hostilities continued until 6 March 1881, when a truce was declared, ironically on the same terms that Colley had disparaged.
Henry and Louis were not on the best of terms, being engaged in the Capetian-Plantagenet struggle, and while Louis was away on crusade the English king signed a truce promising not to attack French lands.

terms and Lithuania
The President of Lithuania is the head of state of the country, elected directly for a five-year term and can serve maximum of two terms consecutively.
The German and Dutch languages, which have separate words for royal prince ( Prinz, Prins ) and for sovereign prince ( Fürst, Vorst ), mark the Grand Princes of Lithuania, Ruthenian states and other Eastern European nations as higher princes, as well as the Russian rulers and later princes of the blood, by the terms Grossfürst, Grootvorst, not Grossherzog, Groothertog.
Under the terms of the Pact, Hitler was, in effect, given authorisation to occupy two-thirds of Western Poland, as well as Lithuania.
However, unrest at home and defeat on the Western Front forced Germany to abandon these favorable terms in favor of the Treaty of Versailles, by which the newly acquired eastern territories were agreed to sacrifice the land to Lithuania, Poland, and new nations such as Estonia or Latvia, and a series of short-lived independent states in Ukraine.
Lithuania became the heartland of the traditionalist opposition to Hasidism, to the extent that in popular perception " Lithuanian " and " misnaged " became virtually interchangeable terms.
Under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet pact, adjusted by agreement on 28 September 1939, the Soviet Union annexed all Polish territory east of the line of the rivers Pisa, Narew, Bug and San, except for the area around Vilnius ( known in Polish as Wilno ), which was given to Lithuania, and the Suwałki region, which was annexed by Germany.
Some historians refer to the Republic of Central Lithuania as a state without qualification, while others characterize it with terms such as puppet state, puppet Republic, so-called state, artificial creation, or as a sham state.
Established on 21 July 1940 as a puppet state, during World War II in the territory of the previously independent Republic of Lithuania after it had been occupied by the Soviet army on 16 June 1940, in conformity with the terms of 23 August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
There were several other terms for " magnate " in Poland and Lithuania:
By 2009 he had served the two presidential terms permitted by the Constitution of Lithuania and was succeeded as president by Dalia Grybauskaite.
Under the terms of the Union of Krewo, she married Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania, who converted to Christianity.
The administrative terms " Lithuanian province " ( Provinz Litthauen ), " Lithuanian districts " ( Littauischen Ämtern ), " Lithuanian county " ( Littauische Kreis ) or simply " Prussian Lithuania " ( Preuszisch Litauen ), " Lithuania " ( Litauen ) were used to refer to the Lithuanian inhabited administrative units ( Nadruvia and Scalovia ) in the legal documentation of Prussian state since 1618.
The territory known as the main part of Lithuania Minor had been distinguished in administrative terms first as Nadrauen and Schalauen, later the names Lithuanian counties, Lithuanian Province, Prussian Lithuania or Lithuania ( Litauische Kreise or Litt ( h ) auen ) became predominant.
In 1522 a peace was signed, under the terms of which Lithuania was forced to cede to Moscow about a quarter of its possessions within the lands of the former Kievan Rus ', including Smolensk.
Those terms should be understood in proper context: " Polish " means " of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth "; " Lithuanian "-from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a federal part of the Commonwealth.
Following the terms of the 1939 Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union invaded and occupied and subsequently annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as Soviet republics in 1940.
Shortly after their defeat in the Battle of Warsaw, the withdrawing Red Army handed the city over to Lithuania under the terms of the peace treaty signed on July 12.
As World War II progressed, it was able to make use of naval bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, first under the terms of agreements forced by the Soviet Union in autumn 1939, then by direct access to the bases following the occupation of the Baltic states in spring, 1940.

terms and had
He had always known how to find a bed, and on his own terms.
Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.
It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.
There was no directive for it -- the Security Council's resolution had not mentioned political matters, and in any case the United Nations by the terms of its charter may not interfere in the political affairs of any nation, whether to unify it, federalize it or Balkanize it.
And it might be, considering the uncomfortable custom the Angels had of thinking of everything in terms of absolutes, that the proposal of anything less might well amount instead to something like a declaration of war.
By March 1861, no leaders of the insurrection had proposed rejoining the Union on any terms.
Nevertheless, in 1861, Lincoln justified the war in terms of legalisms ( the Constitution was a contract, and for one party to get out of a contract all the other parties had to agree ), and then in terms of the national duty to guarantee a republican form of government in every state.
The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.
Not on good terms with Caracalla, Geta had been invited to a family reconciliation, at which time he was ambushed by centurions in Caracalla's army and slain in his mother Julia's arms.
Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.
Carnegie instead preferred to see things through naturalistic and scientific terms stating, " Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.
No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.
He acknowledged that three other former EEOC employees had backed Hill's story, but said they had all left the agency on bad terms.
His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.
Although his father, Afzal Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Sher Ali, the son's behavior in the northern province soon excited the Amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bukhara.
Nixon and Capp were on friendly terms, Hersh wrote, and Nixon and Colson had worked to find a way for Capp to run against Ted Kennedy for the U. S. Senate.
Capp also had a knack for popularizing certain uncommon terms, such as druthers, schmooze and nogoodnik, neatnik, etc.
Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.
Culturally, many urban Australians have had very generalised terms for the otherwise complex range of environments that exist within the inland and tropical regions of the continent.
A hasty counter-attack risked ruining his strategy for an offensive on his own terms in late October, planning for which had begun soon after he took command.

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