Word Finder - ensued

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To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).

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To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.

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To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.

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Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.

In the momentary silence that ensued Dean heard an outside door slam.

A serious conflict ensued between the rival factions, which quickly led to rioting and hand-to-hand fighting.

In the silence that ensued, the snoring of those who had fallen asleep could be heard.

The controversy that ensued made a split in the nonjuring communion.

Negotiations were entered into, but a deadlock ensued.

From the close of the 17th century a long era of conflict ensued between the Chinese and the aborigines.

A change for the better immediately ensued.

A hopeless political confusion ensued.

Tyler thereupon grew insolent, and in the altercation that ensued the rebel leader was killed by the mayor, Sir William Walworth, and John Standwick, one of the king's squires.

Worse complications ensued for the Italians when the emperor Charles VI., father of Maria Theresa, died in i74o.

The Neapolitans reached Bologna on the 17th of May, but in the meantime a dispute had broken out at Naples between the king and parliament as to the nature of the royal oath; a cry of treason was raised by a group of factious youngsters, barricades were erected and street fighting ensued (May Is).

The revolution of 1897-98 opened the door to wider knowledge, and much exploration has ensued, for which see Crete.

In the battle which ensued under the walls of Seville, Abdallah and his auxiliaries were routed with great slaughter, the Cid returning to Burgos with many prisoners and a rich booty.

In 1783 the first petition to the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave trade and slavery went up from the Quakers; and in the long agitation which ensued the Society took a prominent part.

The wars which ensued, the closing of continental ports against English trade, the occupation of the city after the disastrous battle of Jena, and pestilence within its walls brought about a severe commercial crisis and caused a serious decline in its prosperity.

The upset (reserve) price was go sterling per square league of 6669 acres, and, as the lands were quickly sold, an expansion of the pastoral industry immediately ensued.

The Unitarians were relentlessly hunted down and a veritable reign of terror ensued.

Camille sharply replied that he would answer with Rousseau, - "burning is not answering," and a bitter quarrel thereupon ensued.

They were demolished, but as no troops were landed immediately a fresh riot and massacre ensued.

The grand vizier's efforts to take advantage of the peace to introduce order in the country were unavailing; he was driven from office, and disorders ensued which led to the sultan's abdication.

It has generally been forgotten that the utter want of march discipline in the French, and not the climatic conditions, was responsible for the appalling disasters which ensued.

Hard fighting, chiefly between the French and British, now ensued, and at one time the Barrosa ridge, the key of the position left by La Pena's orders, practically undefended, 1811.

An unusually bloody battle ensued, in which the French efforts were chiefly directed against the allied right, held by the Spaniards.

Prolonged negotiations ensued; but finally a Hussite embassy, led by Prokop and including John of Rokycan, the Taborite bishop Nicolas of Pelhfimov, the "English Hussite," Peter Payne and many others, arrived at Basel on the 4th of January 1433.

Many sanguinary broils now ensued, in the course of which Jugjevan was murdered, and the executive authority was much weakened by the usurpations of the Arabs and other chiefs.

Violent accusations followed, indignantly repudiated; a diplomatic correspondence ensued, and a demand was made, and supported by the grand duke, for an apology, which the professor refused to make, preferring rather to lose his chair.

A period of infinite confusion and extreme misery now ensued, of which only the salient points can here be noted.

A reign of terror ensued, during which the unfortunate principality was well-nigh ruined.

Thus the proposal entirely failed of its effect, and as Italy, Yugoslavia and America each adhered to its standpoint, and the two western Powers shrank from any constructive policy, a fresh deadlock ensued.

The islanders revolted against their new masters and a state of anarchy ensued, leading, it is averred, to an arrangement by which the island was administered by a body of five natives, each of whom held the office of governor during the period that elapsed till ten ships touched at the island.

In the struggle that ensued upon the election of 'Ali, Arabia was involved.

During the troubles that ensued in Florence Catherine nearly lost her life in a popular tumult, and sorely regretted not winning her heart's desire, "the red rose of martyrdom."

President Johnson was much disgusted at the readiness with which Grant turned over the office to Stanton, and a bitter controversy ensued between Johnson and Grant.

In the critical division which ensued Gladstone voted with the government, who were left in a minority.

An era of embittered polemics ensued.

A period of interruption now ensued, owing to domestic troubles and foreign complications, and when, in 1878, the government was able to devote attention once again to railway problems, it found the treasury empty.

Two years of ill-health and absence from home ensued.

Hosain, who displayed remarkable abilities in the war that ensued.

A correspondence ensued, and British envoys were sent to Paris.

The object was to injure Bismarck's reputation, and a very unseemly dispute ensued.

As a consequence there ensued the disastrous Germersheim war of succession, which lasted till the peace of Ryswick in 1697.

Fierce opposition ensued, and the pari passu compromise was adopted to which reference is made in the section on Education above; Mr Savona was an able organizer, and began the real emancipation of the Maltese masses from educational ignorance; but he succumbed to agitation before accomplishing substantial results.

Presently all these columns converged upon the defile and a hopeless entanglement ensued.

But the remainder of the troops had to be withdrawn, and confusion breaking out in their rear, exposed to all the random bullets and shells of the French, a panic ensued, thousands of men breaking away and flying in wildest confusion through Gravelotte towards the west.

A rebellion ensued, and the Mahommedans were suppressed.

A decisive battle ensued at Lastoguanes, where the Spanish troops under Monteverde sustained a crushing defeat.

The royalists, effectually roused by the reverses they had sustained, concentrated all their means, and a number of sanguinary encounters ensued.

The hostile forces encountered each other on the 16th of February 1817, when a desperate conflict ensued, which lasted during that and the two following days,and ended in the defeat of the royalists.

He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until, at the instigation of the austere zealot Caraffa, the Inquisition was established at Rome, June 1542.

It should be noticed that the present order of the narratives involves the theory that some catastrophe ensued after Ezr.