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Definition of Entangling
1. entangle [v] - See also: entangle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entangling
Literary usage of Entangling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"The entangling Promotion Contract An entangling promotion contract is a common
trick of the trade with these "non-promoting" promoters—and indeed with some ..."
2. Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad by Mabel Thorp Boardman (1917)
"WAS THE TREATY OF GENEVA AN entangling ALLIANCE? ... He had a wholesome dread of
any entangling foreign alliance that made him naturally cautious regarding ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... entangling, as they rush along, The war-march with the funeral song ? — Small
ground is now for boding fear; Obscure, but safe, we rest us here. ..."
4. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... commercial and political relations with each one individually ; but no entangling
connection, and no internal interference with any one. ..."
5. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... The Twentieth Century American CHAPTER I AN ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE The
Avoidance of entangling Alliances—What the Injunction Meant—What it Cannot Mean ..."
6. The Real Bryan: Being Extracts from the Speeches and Writings of "a Well by William Jennings Bryan (1908)
"FOREIGN RELATIONS entangling ALLIANCES The reasons given by Washington, Jefferson,
and the other statesmen of the early days in support of the doctrine that ..."
7. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... the Country—Washington's Farewell Address: "No entangling Foreign Alliances"—President
John Adams Proposes Arming of Merchant Vessels—Richard Sprigg, ..."
8. United States in the World War by John Bach McMaster (1918)
"He has kept us free from entangling alliances so far." "Let us handle the present
situation with patience and calmness, trusting to the President to take ..."