bring to terms

Idioms and Phrases

Force someone to agree or continue negotiations, as in The creditors were determined to bring the company to terms . The terms here mean “the conditions for agreement.” [First half of 1700s] Also see come to terms .

Example Sentences

Now, at the end of a truce which to no avail had been secured by the Archbishop, we were ready to march towards London to bring to terms our most crafty and tyrannic lord and king.

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The British Government was trying to bring to terms the most intractable race it had ever dealt with in all its colonizing experience.

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If ever Congress could have had a thought, in the most difficult times, to have recourse to this dangerous palliative of the evils of war, the present moment should inspire it with one very different, which will infallibly bring to terms an enemy fatigued, exhausted and ruined, and will assure to the United States, with peace, the respect, the regard and friendship of all powers.

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Cromwell wisely preferred to negotiate, and Argyle was not hard to bring to terms.

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On his behalf the old Abbot undertook a journey, to treat with the wild men of Galloway, whom Malcolm had three times defeated in battle, and now wished to bring to terms.

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