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Updated: June 27, 2025

After the usual commonplaces concerning the royal desire to protect his allies against wrong and oppression, and to advance their interests, the President suggested that the States should forthwith communicate the pending deliberations to all the kings and princes who had favoured their cause, and especially to the King of England, who had so thoroughly proved his desire to promote their welfare.

John Lothrop Motley - History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)

In other words, is not the question on our part one of enfranchisement, not of disfranchisement?" On the 17th of January, Mr. Baker addressed the House in favor of referring the pending bill to the Committee on Reconstruction. He was opposed to the use of the term "Government," without qualification or restriction, as applied to the lately revolted States.

William Horatio Barnes - History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

Political changes are favorable to religious tolerance, and the priests themselves had been sensible of a great decrease in their influence during the pending struggle.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - Remember the Alamo

Do not nations like beings have an active youth, a resplendent prime, and a more or less prolonged old age ending in death? A modern democratic Rome, good heavens! The modern Romes are named Paris, London, Chicago. So he contented himself with saying: "But pending this great renovation of the people, don't you think that you ought to be prudent?

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

On the 26th of February, Mr. Sherman addressed the Senate on the pending concurrent resolution. He approved the principle but doubted the expediency of now reäffirming it.

William Horatio Barnes - History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

Negotiations were still pending with the See of Rome, and this momentous session had closed before the final catastrophe.

James Anthony Froude - History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.

It seemed impossible that one man should work so hard, he was in Tamsui superintending the hospital building to-day, and away off miles in the country preaching to-morrow. He never seemed to get time to eat, and he certainly slept less than his allotted four hours. A great disappointment was pending, however, and one he saw coming nearer every day.

Mary Esther Miller MacGregor - The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa

An income of one hundred thousand koku in the province of Omi was assigned to Samboshi pending the attainment of his majority, when he should be placed in possession of much larger estates, which were to be entrusted in the meanwhile to the keeping of one of the four barons mentioned above.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

They might, and probably would, remain incarcerated for life, pending the commencement of a trial which could only be set in motion by the judge himself a most improbable conjuncture or, failing that, by an extravagant bribe to his official superior, the President of the Court of Cassation. How were poor Apostles to find the necessary sixty or seventy francs for such a venture?

Norman Douglas - South Wind

"You are desirous," he wrote, "that I should express an opinion from the bench on the present state of this Court, but it appears to me any opinion of that sort would be extra-judicial. No one but His Majesty's Representative has any right to ask for the opinion of a Judge where no cause or regular motion, according to the practice of the Court, is pending before him."

John Charles Dent - The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1