We suppose that the author's main purpose in writing was but to invite attention to America, yet he so affected public opinion in Rome as to materially assist the adjustment of the difficulty pending before the high tribunals.
In his case, during the greater part of his life, the adjustment of the higher and lower, the restraint he placed upon the beast in view of the elevation due to the man, was neither conceived nor felt as punitive.
He felt himself coming to a better adjustment with her mature and massive comeliness, her rich and elaborate attire, her full-toned and friendly fluency.
The point not wholly understood or heeded is that, as a rule, the unpleasing voice is an indication of ill adjustmentand friction.
In the effective use of any other instrument, we apply the utmost skill for the perfect adjustment or coordination of all the means of control.
Judgments based upon focal adjustment (monocular) are fairly accurate at distances from five inches to several yards.
Those founded upon axial adjustment (convergence of the two axes in binocular vision) are less in error than the preceding ones.
At that distance the focal adjustment is not much different for both balls, so that the muscular movement, due to focusing the eye, plays a small part in the estimation of the relative distance.
I recommend a revision of the existing tariff and its adjustment on a basis which may augment the revenue.
That this promise was openly violated, in the adjustment forced upon the South at the time of the admission of Missouri, is a matter of recorded history.
In the adjustment of religion and ethics that was made for the new slavery, under the cotton kingdom, there was in the first place a distinct denial of human brotherhood.
A new adjustment of ethics and religion had to be made to meet this new situation, and in the adjustment, no matter what might be said or thought, the Negro and slavery had to be the central thing.
To accompany this wonderful invention, he furnished his bed with an adjustment that set him on his feet at the morning rising hour and at the same instant lighted his lamp.
One of the most interesting features of the editorial work of this volume has been the adjustment of the choice of selections respectively of the editors and authors.
Leete accompanied me to my bedroom when I retired, to instruct me as to the adjustmentof the musical telephone.
Don't you see that, however unsatisfactory the first adjustment might be, the mistakes would soon correct themselves?
Father will show you about the adjustment before you go to bed to-night, however; and with the receiver at your ear, I am quite sure you will be able to snap your fingers at all sorts of uncanny feelings if they trouble you again.
In many communities, however, the adjustment idea has so degenerated that to give an Osteopathic treatment is no job for a high collar on a hot day.
It may, perhaps, be objected to the above comparison, that the revenue derived from the packets is greater now than heretofore, and that equity requires a corresponding adjustment of the account.
I could not accept any advance of salary so long as I was postponing the consideration of others' salaries, my salary should continue at its present amount till the general adjustment should take place.
If, however, the adjustment thus called for should be made, equity would require corresponding adjustments on other points.
Production norms under the system have been low because of technological advances and the infrequency of adjustment of norms.
A first step in improving the living standard took the form of an upward adjustment in the lowest wage brackets and a broadening of social security provisions.
But the principle is sound, as you have admitted, and the great law of adjustment will correct all that is undesirable, and in a very few years.
It was the fashion at the moment to express life in paradoxes, and with a nice adjustment of commas and colons.
The frail and clinging type is an adjustment to the tastes of man, produced partly by custom and partly by breeding.
Thus the vibrations which always follow the adjustmentof the tube will have subsided before the object appears.
If no new adjustment is required for distinct vision, the spherical aberration is corrected, since the mean focal length and the focal length of the central rays are equal.
With this arrangement (known as the diagonal eye-piece) no adjustment of the eye-tube is required.
Sufficient water is then admitted into the final adjustment and trim tank to give the desired buoyancy and trim, and the vessel is now ready to submerge on signal from the commander, who now takes his station at the periscope.
The engine was not needed at that time, however, but we decided to carry a small lantern, to be used when any adjustment was necessary, but not otherwise, as it consumed too much of our precious oxygen.
The final adjustment of displacement was to be effected by means of cylinders which could be forced out through stuffing boxes to increase her displacement or withdrawn to reduce her displacement.
Who will presume to say that he has adequately fathomed the purposes of nature in the adjustment of one of her phenomena to another?
It is not a question of the adjustment of phenomena.
It is not, in this case, that the adjustment of means to ends proves the presence of a mind that has adjusted these.
The techno-theological attempts to rise from the adjustment of means to ends, to an adjuster or contriver.
On the contrary, he was strongly impressed with the belief that the adjustment of claims provided for in the treaty of 1803 had gone to the whole extent to which the French government had, at any period of the negotiations, intended to go.
This was, either to insist upon the adjustment of our claims, within a reasonable period, or to abandon them altogether.
Mr. Pinckney was at that time negotiating for the adjustment of our claims on Spain; and, among others, for captures committed within the territories of Spain, by French subjects.
I do not object to a reasonable adjustment of the controversies which exist.
Does not a compromise imply an adjustment on terms of agreement?
It was to arrest this catastrophe, if possible, by restoring peace and harmony to the Union, that governed him in desiring to see an adjustment of the question.
There must be adjustment of amounts to deserts; and we are left in the dark as to the mode of adjustment--we have to find other guidance.
For besides being an improving adjustment of acts to ends, such as furthers prolongation of life, it is such as furthers increased amount of life.
Consequently, in proportion as mankind approach complete adjustment of their natures to social needs, there must be fewer and smaller opportunities for giving aid.
The ultimate question, therefore, is: Has evolution been a mistake; and especially that evolution which improves the adjustment of acts to ends in ascending stages of organization?
So that the perfection of man considered as an agent, means the being constituted for effecting complete adjustment of acts to ends of every kind.
The definition of conduct which emerges is either acts adjusted to ends, or else the adjustment of acts to ends, according as we contemplate the formed body of acts, or think of the form alone.
Where, as among certain fish, the male keeps guard over the eggs, driving away intruders, there is an additional adjustment of acts to ends; and the applicability of the name conduct is more decided.
There is, however, a minute nicety in the adjustment of the machinery, which was not obvious until it came forth in practice--a nicety without which the whole system falls to pieces.
I perceive that since theadjustment of the tariff question a new subject of discontent and agitation seems to engross your attention.
What complicates his sex difficulties, and makes social adjustment almost impossible or completely impossible, is that his pituitary frequently cannot react to assist him.
Nothing will contribute more to harmonious adjustment for these sufferers than recognition of the fact that we are all, more or less, partial hermaphrodites.
Conflict with adjustment by suppression must occur.
Adolescence for them, however, is more apt to be stormy and episodic, adjustment to the new world of people and things is much more difficult, wanderlust is acute.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adjustment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
