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Example sentences for "acquirement"

Lexicographically close words:
acquiescent; acquiesces; acquiescing; acquire; acquired; acquirements; acquirer; acquires; acquireth; acquiring
  1. Difficulties in the acquirement by Selection of complex corporeal structures.

  2. Difficulties in the acquirement of complex instincts by Selection.

  3. In other words, while all must be held closely to catholic schooling, such as trades and occupational teaching, the emphasis belongs where Nature and unnatural acquirement place it.

  4. Gustav Vollmer attended the public schools of his native country in the acquirement of his education but when seventeen years old emigrated to the United States.

  5. Dague was reared under the parental roof and attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education.

  6. John Spreitzer was reared at home and in the acquirement of his education attended the public schools of Austria.

  7. Cantonwine attended the schools of Dixie in the acquirement of his general education and prepared himself to manage his affairs in a businesslike manner by taking a course in a commercial college at Walla Walla.

  8. He was reared upon the home farm, and his boyhood and youth were spent in the acquirement of a district school education and in helping his father.

  9. Miller, whose name introduces this review, was reared under the parental roof and in the acquirement of an education attended the district schools and also spent one year in study in Whitman College.

  10. Davis attended the public schools at Silverton in the acquirement of an education and was about seventeen years of age when he began providing for his own support.

  11. Kausche, who is one of the five living children of a family of eight, was reared at home and at the usual age became a pupil in the public schools, which he attended in the acquirement of an education.

  12. He spent his youthful days under the parental roof and divided his time between the acquirement of an education and work in the fields.

  13. William Thomas Dovell grew to manhood in Walla Walla and attended the public schools and Whitman College in the acquirement of his education.

  14. In the acquirement of an education John W.

  15. Harris grew to manhood under the parental roof and in the acquirement of his education attended the district schools.

  16. He was reared under the parental roof and attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education.

  17. Berton Delany, who is one of six living children in a family of eight, was reared under the parental roof and attended the common and high schools in the acquirement of his education.

  18. Since the first acquirement of articulate speech by man a succession of languages has appeared owing to the growth, differentiation, etc.

  19. The ability to advance is not absent, and capacity to reach a certain grade in civilization is general, but beyond the acquirement of indifferent skill in the arts, literature, etc.

  20. All study, subjective and objective, is a Tapashya or Austerity directed to the acquirement of wisdom.

  21. Man grows by the deepening of consciousness and the acquirement of wisdom.

  22. It is a scale of increasing physiological differentiation, and the stages of it are marked by the acquirement of this or that new organ (cf.

  23. When all obstacles to the acquirement of the zone were removed under the Hay-Varilla treaty, the next step on the part of the American Republic was to begin the most important work of sanitization.

  24. Acquirement of the Canal Zone When this obstacle was removed the next step was to secure a canal zone, and the United States entered into negotiations with the Government of Colombia with that end in view.

  25. The refusal of this ratification ultimately led to the secession of Panama from its allegiance to the Republic of Colombia and the acquirement of independence.

  26. The sterling education she had received was lodged in a vigorous brain, which contented itself with the acquirement of knowledge.

  27. All of these things represent the active individual acquirement of the racial accumulation of tradition and learning--what the biologist would call the results of modification.

  28. As its acquirement has been a work of protracted habituation, so can its obsolescence also come about only through more or less protracted habituation under a system of use and wont of a different or divergent order.

  29. Naturalisation has been easy, and has been sought with no more eagerness, on the whole, than the notably low terms of its acquirement would indicate.

  30. The stress fell on the acquirement of that special personal skill, dexterity and judgment that would constitute the workman a master of his craft.

  31. Is it not probable that teachers, in pursuing such studies, will be led astray from the acquirement of more important but less attractive knowledge?

  32. Mr Stelling's duty was to teach the lad in the only right way,--indeed he knew no other; he had not wasted his time in the acquirement of anything abnormal.

  33. An acquirement is an acquirement, whether it be acquired five minutes or months before, or five minutes or months after, the change of environment which we call birth.

  34. The familiar fact of the acquirement of immunity affects in no degree the statement as to the toxic character of these substances.

  35. It would be hard to prove the existence of any injury thus inflicted upon the children of the father who is a smoker, though the question of the acquirement of immunity is not without relevance here.

  36. What we do for ourselves, in the acquirement of any knowledge, is apt to be well done: what is done for us by others is of little value.

  37. Then the wicked Duryodhana, guided by the counsels of Sakuni (his maternal uncle), persecuted the Pandavas in various ways for the acquirement of undisputed sovereignty.

  38. In regard to her acquirement of English, she has done better than her relatives, who continue to live in a neighborhood where their own Slavic dialect is spoken.

  39. In several of the improved cases we have mentioned that it was largely the acquirement of social foresight which made the first step in a moral advance which finally won the day.

  40. We shall see how important was the acquirement of this system of vessels, when we get to the chapter on the History of the Plant Kingdom.

  41. Their acquirement of this by christening, or by the adoption of it through the usage of parents, settles for life what they will be called.

  42. One of the surest results of social isolation is the acquirement of peculiarities of speech, often shown in the retaining of archaisms which fashionable language had dropped.

  43. It not only facilitated the acquirement of clear ideas, but it was suggestive of new ideas.

  44. The one was lived by a Man who had not where to lay His head; and the other is an acquirement taken over from pagan Rome, and continued largely in its pagan form even unto this day.

  45. But whether genius is an acquirement or a natural endowment he touches on but lightly.

  46. The extreme test of the principle of concentration as against equal application, is the acquirement of Style, or the extending of our resources of diction and expression in all its particulars.

  47. The early stages of instruction must be conducted vivâ voce; it is a late acquirement to be able to extract information from a printed page.

  48. Intelligent beings, professed followers of Christ, are absorbed in the acquirement of worldly possessions or the enjoyment of earthly pleasures.

  49. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies.

  50. These ceremonies of peace-making they consider among their most solemn duties; and to be perfectly accomplished in all the notes and gestures is an indispensable acquirement to a thorough trained warrior.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquirement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accession; accomplishment; achievement; acquisition; addition; attainment; earnings; finish; gift; making; procurement; winning