As these institutions go on, augmenting in number and improving in organization, their pupils will bring their quality and efficacy to the proof, as they grow to maturity, and go forth to act their part in society.
This was a means of persuading the ministry that the colonies were augmenting rapidly in population and prosperity.
His design was to conquer the world, and his policy was to unite all parties in augmenting the national strength.
With an air of piety and benevolence, but with an unscrupulousness that regarded neither truth nor principle, the monks invented every fiction, and adopted every possible method of augmenting the stores of their wealth.
And this augmenting necessitates a progressive increase in the business of all monopolies, trusts and combinations, highly increasing the gross and the net incomes of all.
The underwritten, special Minister of the United States of North America, renews his representations to the Director-General of Finance, upon the necessity of augmenting the present remittance of pecuniary succors destined for America.
Secondly, the excellence of the conveyance removes a powerful objection on the part on the Ministry against augmenting the first remittance of specie.
The Emperor is full of the project of removing his East India Company from Trieste to Ostend, and of augmenting the commerce of his subjects, particularly in the Low Countries.
A desire of augmenting your sources of information will, I hope, plead my apology.
A just national pride, no less than our commercial interests, would Seem to favor the policy of augmenting the number of this description of vessels.
For the Cabinet, restored to power, became a cautious steward, and took to imitating him of the Gospel who hid his talents instead of augmenting them.
From month to month the percentage of wounded who are able to return to the front has been augmenting steadily, and the death-rate has decreased correspondingly.
What is Understood by Intensity of Sound--Means of Augmenting the Timbre of the Voice--Rules for Intensity of Sound Chapter IV.
Thus, to them, strange to say, the entire law of vocal shades would consist in augmenting progressively the sound of the ascending phrase or scale, and diminishing in the same proportion for a descending scale.
The opposition party would not agree to raise further revenue by indirect internal taxation, and only that augmenting the duty on pleasure carriages was passed into a law.
The advantages of a military academy and of a national university were also urged, and the necessity of augmenting the compensation to the officers of the United States in various instances was explicitly stated.
Contarini is either ill-intentioned or ignorant--and his intelligence is very capable of augmenting the disquietudes of the senate.
The aristocracy who direct the party had supported all the costly proposals for augmenting the military forces, in order to ensure Germany’s triumph in the next war.
This was adopted by Japan after the war, the infantry period of service with the reserves being extended to 14{1/3} years, and of course has the effect of greatly augmenting the potential war strength.
After the war important changes were made in the direction of augmenting and improving the armed forces.
The term "shooting shrapnel" is given to certain howitzer shrapnel, which are designed to contain a large bursting charge for the purpose of considerably augmenting the velocity of the bullets when the shell bursts.
This vicar embellished it with new ornaments, very rich and curious, such as lamps and silver candlesticks, thereby augmenting the reputation and esteem of our holy religion among those new nations.
He had, therefore, rejected the idea of lowering the present interest by augmenting the capital of the debt.
The talents of Mr. Perceval were not splendid, but as chancellor of the exchequer he displayed considerable skill in augmenting the public burdens at a time when the war was conducted on a scale of unprecedented expenditure.
However, he said, he accepted the power of augmenting the home force as crumbs falling from their lordships' table.
With this moral development of the nation, the public revenues, the sure index, when unforced, of public prosperity, went on augmenting with astonishing rapidity.
The Rue and Place Dauphine, the Place Royale, which still exhibits a square of houses unaltered in style since the day they were built, owed their construction to his mania for building and passion for augmenting and improving his capital.
Six other dukes, or officers of the Crown, received the same allowance, augmenting the outlay in six years by eighty-six thousand four hundred livres.
Why cannot we instantly grasp, then, what the power of our everyday thought is doing for us, and how careful we should be in its direction to avoid augmenting the current of foolish and harmful ones--because unity is strength.
It was increasing the indebtedness of the citizens to foreign merchants, and augmenting the balance of trade against the colonies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "augmenting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
