Ill-timed Sentence Examples

Alongside of such want of firmness as this were, however, to be found such measures of ill-timed repression as the order given in 1860 to the agricultural society not to discuss the question of the settlement of the peasants on the land.

The Radicals alone, owing to their ill-timed criticism on the private relations of the imperial family, and their continued opposition to the army, were excluded.

His sword defended him as if possessed, yet when he went to strike, he found his blows ill timed and clumsy.

This ill-timed parsimony reacted injuriously upon Polish politics.

It was all-important that whatever victories Garibaldi might win should be won for the Italian kingdom, and, above all, that no ill-timed attack on the Papal States should provoke an intervention of the powers.

Malouet, and it was regarded, even by moderate men, as ill-timed.

The progress of events during the next few years proved that the recall of the governor had been ill-timed.