What is "diets"

Usage examples of "diets".

We may recollect how often the diets of Poland have been polluted with blood, and the more numerous party has been compelled to yield to the more violent and seditious.

In the frequent and at last the perpetual institution of diets, a national spirit was kept alive, and the powers of a common legislature are still exercised by the three branches or colleges of the electors, the princes, and the free and Imperial cities of Germany.

The college of princes and prelates purged themselves of a promiscuous multitude: they reduced to four representative votes the long series of independent counts, and excluded the nobles or equestrian order, sixty thousand of whom, as in the Polish diets, had appeared on horseback in the field of election.

R: No one wants to tell people to change their diets meaningfully (and I understand your stand that no one knows what a "correct" diet is.

Making out lists for clean linen, diets, off duty, smoothing out the hundred and one creases in the fabric of the ward's day.

True, she and Dr Evans had had a couple of ladylike skirmishes over the diabetics' diets to which Dr Thackery had listened impeturbably, but things should now be plain sailing--there was the patient whose specimens had so unfortunately been disposed of, but since there had been no major snags so far, she had high hopes of glossing the business over.

In the frequent and at last the perpetual institution of diets, a national spirit was kept alive, and the powers of a common legislature are still exercised by the three branches or colleges of the electors, the princes, and the free and Imperial cities of Germany.

It was a small, quite cosy place, crammed with shelves of china stacked trays and with lists and notices pinned on the walls, like the one extolling the reader to be careful--in red ink--and going on to give the advice--in blue ink--that old Tom was allergic to eggs, there were diabetic diets, salt-free diets, fat-free diets.

Some are wholesomer than others, but all the ordinary diets are wholesome enough for the people who use them.