单词 | to bring to issue |
释义 | > as lemmasto bring to (an) issue d. to bring to (an) issue: to cause to be resolved or settled; to bring (a business, process, etc.) to a conclusion. Now rare. ΚΠ 1652 Mercurius Britannicus No. 4. 11 If he turn Cat in Pan once more, the businesse will be brought to a sudden issue. 1724 G. Berkeley Let. 8 Dec. in Wks. (1871) IV. 110 Provided you bring my affair..to a complete issue before Christmas day. 1755 J. Wesley Let. 7 Jan. (1931) III. 124 In order..to bring this matter to a short and clear issue, I have ‘summed up’ as briefly as possible. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. vii. 43 Before the negociations at Crespy were brought to an issue. 1844 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 17 276 Nor was any remedy elicited that might serve to bring to issue the invidious and ever-spreading inequality between noblesse and roture. 1927 Calif. Law Rev. 15 451 The chief end sought by the Commission..was..the establishment of a simple and speedy method for bringing to issue such formal proceedings as should come before it. 1989 WoodenBoat Dec. 39/2 Not brought to issue..was whether or not the New Zealand challenge in a monolithic unimaran was renegade. < as lemmas |
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