In this power of impressment is a good part of a ruler's greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist] Reference

Thus recalling the impressment of American citizens by the British prior to the war of 1812.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Blog] Reference

British custom of procuring sailors for the king's ships by a system of kidnapping, commonly known as impressment, was the cause of the outbreak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

He sees the Fifth Amendment prohibition on takings as a response to Revolutionary War "impressment" of personal property for military use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Amend section 5, line 3, by inserting after the word "impressment," the words "under or by virtue of the laws of the State.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863] Reference

Michilimackinac and Fort Niagara and Astoria on the Columbia go back to the United States; but of "impressment" and "right of search" and "embargo of neutrals" not a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference

To add to the popular indignation that the impressment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

The articles on maritime rights and impressment were set aside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

American vessels against seizure and impressment by the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

The subjects of impressment and blockades were not embraced in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

He constantly protested against his impressment, but without avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

At this time the chronic grievance of the impressment of seamen from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars Between England and America] Reference

British ship in retaliation for the impressment of an American seaman by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The articles on impressment and other maritime rights, absolutely rejected by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

Verona, an agent or assessor under the impressment act, acting under orders of Maj.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference

Mishra had taken him from his own village long ago, another impressment in the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song of Time]

It included the questions of impressment, the fisheries, the boundaries, and indemnity for slaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

He opened it with much impressment, assumed, of course, and showed a great bundle of white flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

They had submitted to the most stringent levy of conscription and impressment ever imposed upon a nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

I call this an outrage, not an impressment but a robbery, countenanced and sanctioned by an officer, Capt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference

In the matter of impressment of American seamen, he urged the lodging of sufficient power in the executive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

British orders in council in relation to the seizure of neutrals and the impressment of seamen were repealed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Mr. Gallatin believed that, had Canning lived, he would have opened a negotiation on the subject of impressment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

Trading classes the greatest sufferers from impressment, not without resentment, various trades gradually exempted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

French pirates turned over their Muslim captives to their government for impressment as galley slaves in the French navy.    From Wordnik.com.  [1662] Reference

But many British sailors sought security from such impressment by desertion in American ports or were tempted to desert to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

Consul for Tunis, with directions to present objections to the articles on the tariff, salutes, and impressment of vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference

England, and endeavored to conclude a convention for the protection of neutral rights, and against the impressment of seamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

But the principle of right of search in time of peace, though for another object than impressment, was soon again asserted by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

The new questions of Cuba, and the old habit of impressment, might at once bring the United States into collision with England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

To secure supplies, Congress was driven to authorize seizure and impressment of food and payment in certificates of indebtedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wars Between England and America] Reference

United States; no fleets or military posts on the Great Lakes, and no renunciation of the English rights of search and impressment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

The old irritating questions of impressment and blockade and the exclusion of the United States from the West Indies trade remained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

War was declared on Britain, on the grounds of impressment, violation of the three-mile limit, paper blockade, and orders in council.    From Wordnik.com.  [1810, May 1] Reference

But we had these war hawks who -- Britain was very high-handed on the seas, as -- as is well-known, the -- the impressment of sailors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent of Destiny: The Life and Times of General Winfield Scott] Reference

These were a repeal of the orders in council, with no illegal blockades substituted, and a discontinuance of the impressment of seamen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

And yet these very people yielded cheerfully to the constantly insolent, and not infrequently illegal, demands of the impressment officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

It was silent on the paramount question of impressment, and left the commercial regulations between the two countries for subsequent negotiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Mental reason, or impressment plying its parts as touching these mingled, and confusion atmospheres, proving that all things affect us, consciously or otherwise, relating to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference