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Example sentences for "actual service"

  • This privilege, however, which we have said soldiers enjoy, is allowed them by imperial constitutions only while they are engaged on actual service, and in camp life.

  • The land and naval forces, and the militia when in actual service, are under military law, usually called martial law.

  • We have only five frigates in actual service.

  • The gentleman from Massachusetts had said it would be cheaper to keep these vessels in actual service than in their present situation.

  • The ceiling is the maximum altitude at which the plane can be maneuvered in actual service.

  • There were 60 of these in actual service when we got into the war.

  • As this had proved to be entirely satisfactory in actual service on European battle fields, and as ammonium nitrate could be produced here in large quantities, we adopted it.

  • In the latter part of August we were using the Marlin gun at the front, and cablegram after cablegram told us of the surprisingly excellent performances of this weapon in actual service.

  • On the other hand, the partisans of the ministry asserted, that the half-pay was granted as a retaining fee; and that originally all those who enjoyed this indulgence were deemed to be in actual service, consequently subject to martial law.

  • As commander in chief of the militia when called into the actual service of the United States, I have visited the places of general rendezvous to obtain more exact information and to direct a plan for ulterior movements.

  • The vessels authorized by the act of 1820 have all been completed and are now in actual service.

  • About half of these, however, covers the current expenditures of the Navy in actual service, and half constitutes a fund of national property, the pledge of our future glory and defense.

  • Internal and external sickness, with the mode of discovery and cure of the same, as far as practicable, by the means to be had on actual service.

  • Sons of fathers belonging to the Reserve,[25] without prejudice, however, to sons of soldiers in actual service.

  • Since the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713, the policy of the Continental States has generally refused to sanction the removal of enemies from a neutral ship, unless military men in actual service.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual existence; actual experience; actual observation; actual operation; actual possession; actual practice; actual service; actual warfare; against each; armed men; brief statement; brown stone; full sight; habitual drunkard; many difficulties; only thus; pretty large; provisional order; strained voice; surely enough; upon them; valuable consideration; white blossoms; will think; would often; wrote back