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Example sentences for "apply the"

  • If he failed to apply the remedy, it was his fault.

  • As stated above, the will in failing to apply the rule of reason or of the Divine law, is the cause of sin.

  • We apply the word "voluntary" not only to that which proceeds from the will directly, as from its action; but also to that which proceeds from it indirectly as from its inaction.

  • Further, to apply the members to action is to use them.

  • Fricke, one of the first to apply the non-mercurial system.

  • Can we now consistently refuse to apply the rule to all who need our kindly care?

  • The common welfare is involved in their general application, and he well merits the good opinion of his fellow-men who points them to a case where propriety is outraged, and asks their aid to apply the remedy.

  • Insert into one end of the tube a little of the lycopodium powder, and then, pea-shooter fashion, apply the mouth to the other end of the tube, and blow the contents into the flame.

  • It is not difficult to apply the fountain to an aquarium.

  • When the table is ready for the varnish, apply the leaves in the positions marked out beforehand.

  • In decorating your room, the first point to be decided is to what extent and where you will apply the work.

  • If we apply the term "habit" to all these, it is evident that we must, in so doing, extend the significance of the word beyond its ordinary interpretation.

  • It does not suffice to answer that God's justice is not our justice; for in that case, what right have we to apply the word to him at all?

  • It is not necessary to apply the terms "ends" and "means" to events in order to understand their connection as following upon each other with constancy.

  • While the President wished to apply the interest on the United States bonds to the redemption of the principal, the Secretary of the Treasury was pressing for the restoration of the specie standard.

  • It was the desire of Congress and every Republican Secretary of the Treasury, in order to comply with the sinking fund law, to apply the surplus to the gradual reduction of the debt.

  • Nor can any thing be more inaccurate than to apply the term real being to past, or present, or future, or even to non-existence.

  • Footnote 351: The warmest admirers of Sir William Hamilton hesitate to apply the doctrine of the unconditioned to Cause and Free-will.

  • Nothing can be more inaccurate than to apply the terms, past, present, future, to real Being, which is immovable.

  • This is an ultimate fact in our analysis; and its importance will be realized when we come to apply the notions we have been explaining to the study of change.

  • But we apply the term "good" to objects, and speak of their goodness, apart from their direct and immediate relation of helpfulness or suitability for us.

  • Nor yet do we apply the concept of "being" in a totally different sense to each separate determinate mode of being.

  • To the latter I would propose to apply the term, Scottish Geometric, reserving for the more elaborate style, ultimately developed after the War of Independence, the name of Scottish Decorated.

  • The woodcut represents various examples of perforated stone balls, such as are frequently met with, and to which it may be convenient to apply the name of Bead-stones.

  • To these I would propose to apply the name of Spiked Axe.

  • But as the spouse of Christ is unable, in her perplexity, to apply the law to the present case in a manner satisfactory to herself, she is directed by her Lord, (Song i.

  • This last move showed that he was as little disposed to apply the remedy[158] as he had been.

  • He told Chapuys that it was the disappointment which he had felt at the King's reply to him on the Wednesday after Easter that had led him to apply the match to the train.


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