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Example sentences for "certain cases"

  • This great actor in the historical drama of the day had only stopped to put on a waistcoat and frock-coat, and had not changed his morning trousers, so well he knew how grateful men can be for immediate action in certain cases.

  • Now nothing of the kind is to be found in human affairs, since all the rules of human right fail in certain cases, nor do they obtain force everywhere.

  • Therefore, in certain cases, it is lawful to give alms of ill-gotten goods.

  • Since then it is lawful in certain cases to kill a sinful man, much more is it lawful to slay an innocent or a righteous person.

  • A man does not in all respects leave his father and mother for the sake of his wife: for in certain cases a man ought to succor his parents rather than his wife.

  • In addition to these I use only a few specialities in certain cases of disease, viz.

  • It admits that it is easy for God to cause virtue to exist, and yet contends that, in certain cases, he fails to do so, because the highest good of the universe requires the existence of moral evil.

  • Now, in regard to certain cases, we deny both the name and the thing.

  • Besides, if to refuse to call suffering in certain cases a punishment, be merely to change a word, why should so great an outcry be made about it?

  • This was a larger surplus than he had hoped for last year; but as the committee of the privy-council would, in certain cases, have the power to constitute new benefices, this surplus would be likely to undergo some alteration.

  • On the 10th of December the royal assent was given to a bill for continuing the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Acts in certain cases of piracy, and also to the Land and Malt-tax Bills--those standing resources of government revenue.

  • In addition to its political functions, the council from the time of Draco, if not earlier, exercised jurisdiction in certain cases of homicide (see below, ad fin.

  • The normal process of writing the larger numbers on the left is in certain cases modified in the Roman system by writing a number in front of a larger one to denote subtraction.

  • As to the pretended unwholesomeness of milk in certain cases; as to its not being adapted to some constitutions, I do not believe one word of the matter.

  • Harvesting and haymaking are allowed to be carried on on the Sunday, in certain cases; when they are always carried on by provident farmers.

  • Still, religion does its best, in certain cases, to lend equilibrium; though all the world over, religion often fails in practice.

  • A wife may testify against the husband in certain cases, as actions for alienating of affection, or criminal conversation; not so the husband.

  • These valuable services, in certain cases, add to the value of money.

  • If the exchange were not made, in certain cases, the borrower would have no future income to which he could give rights.

  • It is possible, I think, to measure this addition to value rather precisely in certain cases.

  • Certain cases from my own observation may be given which will make the matter clear.

  • We find this in certain cases just as strongly marked as the positive movement--bringing kind of suggestion.

  • Mutual right and duty to intermarry in the gens in certain cases, especially for orphaned girls or heiresses.

  • The whole tale reveals at the first glance that little more than the gens was borrowed from reality, and that the gens itself was in certain cases only an offshoot of an old mother gens still existing at home.

  • In certain cases a federation united the related tribes.

  • But there are other modes of prosecution in certain cases, one of which is by attachment.

  • This necessitates driving the animal for several miles in certain cases.

  • The cartilage of prolongation of the scapula is sometimes seriously involved in certain cases of fistulous withers, and in some instances it has been separated from its attachment to the rhomboidea muscles, and lameness has resulted.

  • In Cape Colony and Natal the appellate courts are the supreme courts, subject to further appeal in certain cases to the king in council.

  • While the painter may use the written drama in certain cases, he can by no means be concerned with the acted drama.

  • It varies from the succeeding section in that the artist may represent the human being as he ought to be, or would be with the higher physical and abstract qualities emphasized, or in certain cases, with these qualities added.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain cases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain animals; certain characters; certain conditions; certain distances; certain great; certain groups; certain lady; certain localities; certain order; certain persons; certain point; certain price; certain proportion; certain provisions; certain resemblance; certain respect; certain seasons; certain species; certain spot; certain thing; certain ways; certain young; certainly not; eight feet; sensible woman; strict sense