Wavered Sentence Examples

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  • The old king listened, refused, wavered and ended by yielding.

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  • At first the fortune of war wavered.

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  • His resolve to keep his distance wavered as he thought about pulling her into bed with him again.

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  • After taking his degree he wavered between classics and mathematics, but finally chose the latter.

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  • As he began slipping down, his head and arm wavered still more with the strain.

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  • But Metternich wavered on the question of Saxony, and December saw the allies hopelessly at difference.

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  • But at the last moment the marshal wavered.

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  • If the applicant is registered disabled, the application fee will be wavered.

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  • Even the king wavered for an instant; but, Dahlberg persisting in his opinion, Charles overruled the objections of the commanders.

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  • But he never wavered in his allegiance to Vespasian, whose favour he retained in spite of his arrogance.

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  • His diplomacy in France proves him to have been a man of education, and his honour is unimpeached; he never wavered, he never was liegeman of Edward, while bishops, nobles, and, above all, Bruce, perjured themselves and turned their coats again and again.

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  • Diogenes of Seleucia is said to have wavered in his belief at last; Boethus, one of his pupils, flatly denied it.

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  • In fact Nicholas never wavered in his support for the alliance.

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  • At any rate he wavered in his estimate of their taxonomic value, for he gave an alternative proposal, arranging all the genera in a single series, a proceeding in those days thought not only defensible and possible, but desirable or even requisite, though now utterly abandoned.

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  • He wavered curiously in his ecclesiastical views, and ended by helping the persecutors of the Monophysite Church, to which he himself had belonged.

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  • After Madrid he wavered unceasingly between two courses, either that of continuing hostilities, or the policy favoured by Montmorency of peace and understanding with the emperor.

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  • Clement's accession at once brought about a political change in favour of France; yet he was unable to take a strong line, and wavered between the emperor and Francis I., concluding a treaty of alliance with the French king, and then, when the crushing defeat of Pavia had shown him his mistake, making his peace with Charles (April 1, 1525), only to break it again by countenancing Girolamo Morone's League of Freedom, of which the aim was to assert the independence of Italy from foreign powers.

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  • Bruce, previously so shifty, had never wavered or turned back since he smote the Red Comyn at Dumfries.

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  • She at once resolved to learn to speak, and from that day to this she has never wavered in that resolution.

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  • But for some reason, we could n't use it because, I think, maybe the tempo wavered a little bit.

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  • It's been a standard for years and hasn't wavered far from its inherently basic look.

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  • That expertise stands him in good stead today as one of Los Angeles' most sought-after jewelry designers, and he has never wavered from his attention to detail in every facet of his designs.

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  • They've changed with time and fashion trends but the quality has never wavered.

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  • Everyone believed that Brandi allowed Megan to manipulate her too much, but Brandi's loyalty never wavered.

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  • His attention never wavered and Carmen kept her expression bland as she slapped the potatoes on her plate and then returned the spoon to the bowl.

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  • You might have wavered over some things, but you were always so... set... on children being a part of your future.

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  • Returned to the Convention in September 1792 he developed moderate, even reactionary views, becoming one of the fiercest opponents of the Mountain, though he never wavered in his support of republican principles.

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  • There is no reason to believe, however, that these attacks represented the feeling of any save a small minority of the politicians; the people never wavered in their devotion to the president, and his election would have been unanimous in 1796, as in 1792 and 1789, had he been willing to serve.

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  • Lambert was also one of the divines who took part in the great conference of Marburg in 1529; he had long wavered between the Lutheran and the Zwinglian view of the Lord's Supper, but at this conference he definitely adopted the Zwinglian view.

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  • Fox's most important political friends who had long wavered, at length, to Burke's great satisfaction, went over tolthe side of the government.

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  • She wavered on her feet and leaned into him, the tension melting from her as it did when he drew her blood earlier.

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  • And as the battle raged between towels and seeds for space in the airing cupboard, my mum's patience never once wavered.

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  • Whilst the level of applications has not wavered the area in which activity is highest has.

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  • There he wavered between the two richest heiresses, Julie and Princess Mary.

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  • Fra Domenico's loyalty had never wavered, and the weak Silvestro's enthusiasm rekindled at sight of his chief.

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