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Meanings of impressment in anglès
Forced naval service with or without notice.
portuguès
requisação català
requisició Usage of impressment in anglès
1
On the impressment of our seamen our remonstrances have never been intermitted.
2
The subjects of impressment and blockades were not embraced in it.
3
The impressment of seamen continued and was the source of daily increasing abuse.
4
The reports of the impressment operations only came down to May.
5
But the system of impressment is no respecter either of pity or person.
6
He urged Terrence to give a detailed account of his impressment and captivity.
7
But impressment is subject to objections of a much wider range.
8
This was the British claim to the right of impressment.
9
The practice of impressment continued to harass each succeeding administration.
10
Translate that to I do not struggle sufficiently against impressment.
11
Originally he had fled to the capital to avoid the dilemma of impressment or imprisonment.
12
If you didn't know about the impressment laws, you've got your own ignorance to blame.
13
Seamen, letter of Daniel Webster on impressment of, 658.
14
Every member and every servant of the Company was to be privileged against impressment and arrest.
15
To escape impressment, or to obtain higher wages, many of her seamen enlisted in our service.
16
But as the impressment was abandoned by England, the war had not been waged wholly in vain.
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