Breathing-space Sentence Examples

The death of Hadrian and the accession of Antoninus Pius (138), however, gave the dispersed people of Palestine a breathing-space.

To give his enemies a breathing space when they were hard pressed was an insane proceeding unless he meant to make peace.

What it wanted most of all was peace, and by establishing something like a territorial equilibrium the congress did much to win that breathing space which was the cardinal need of all.

This peace, however, did no more than afford a breathing space during which Louis XIV.

There was breathing space for a moment in the centre, but the Austrian left now came into action, Krautwald von Annan's III.

Diaz had little breathing-space, though some days were required before the enemy could prepare for an attack in force upon the new line.

The breathing-space was needed by Di Robilant's troops, for the XVIII.

Through the insistence of Russia an armistice was agreed upon; and Lord Beaconsfieldfor Disraeli had now been raised to the peerageendeavoured to utilize the breathing space by organizing a conference of the great powers at Constantinople, which was attended on behalf of Great Britain by Lord Salisbury.

But Austria and Russia gave him no time for anything but defence, and it was not until the peace of Jassy (1792) that a breathing space was allowed him in Europe, while Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt and Syria soon called for Turkey's strongest efforts and for the time shattered the old-standing French alliance.