bring to naught

Example Sentences

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Hath not God chosen the foolish, the weak, the base, yea and even things that are not to bring to naught things that are?

From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by Bunyan, John

For pestilence and famine make people good and rich; but war and wicked rulers bring to naught everything that has to do with temporal and eternal possessions.

From A Treatise on Good Works by Luther, Martin

But here at least, by dint of thought, I feel that I can bring to naught The rise in H2O.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Did I not long ago              Adjure you to return unto the court              And bring to naught the plotting of my foes!—

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

So Providence moves on in his mysterious power to bring to naught the grandeur and power of rebellious nations—rebellious to those mighty moral laws which are as inexorable as the laws of nature.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John