Hague
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A city in North Dakota
A town in New York
A town in Saskatchewan
Shortened or attributive form of The Hague.
Hague tribunals; Hague announces plans to reduce homelessness
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.