What is "brought about"

Usage examples of "brought about".

He insisted that he had stayed alone in his own little office, expecting Malvin to call before completing the deal with Warrendale.

Instead the rings have brought about much good and are invaluable in the struggle against him.

What I cannot help taking amiss is that he charges me with being old and one-handed, as if it had been in my power to keep time from passing over me, or as if the loss of my hand had been brought about in some tavern, and not on the grandest occasion the past or present has seen, or the future can hope to see.

Thus he brought about a bustle that drove the Duke's business from Richard's mind, and left Blake without a pretext to pursue his quest for information.

Every failure of industry, every tyrannous regulation brought about by the desperate situation, is used by the Entente as a justification of its policy.

The method by which Captain Frere has brought about this repose of desolation is characteristic of him.

And here I find three aims with which the most important changes on this arena were brought about.

The emissary had no idea as to exactly what had provoked the wrath of the Cora and brought about the destruction of another native civilization on an island close to here some fifteen hundred of this world's years earlier—.

Militant labor organizing during the Great Depression brought about labor's first -- and last -- political victories, notably the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) of 1935, which granted labor rights that had long been established in other industrial societies.

It was brought about by a conversation in the Eldorado Saloon, in which men waxed boastful of their favorite dogs.

All judgments therefore are functions of unity among our representations, the knowledge of an object being brought about, not by an immediate representation, but by a higher one, comprehending this and several others, so that many possible cognitions are collected into one.

When Catherine Howard perished on the block, the duke, her uncle, who had brought about the ill-starred match, fell into disfavor with the vindictive monarch, and never regained the place he had hitherto held in Henry's regard.

With good-will, generosity, intelligence, these things could be brought about.

The triumph of nationalism has brought about a situation where people do not occupy a piece of land because it is valuable.

Improved medical techniques have brought about a runaway increase in population.