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Example sentences for "certain circumstances"

  • I do not say you must or ought to marry; I say you may, and in certain circumstances ought.

  • This power of abstinence is a valuable gift, and has frequently enabled men in certain circumstances to save life or perform other important service.

  • But when I come to discuss sexual perversions in detail, I shall point out that this disappearance, in certain circumstances, fails to occur.

  • I pointed out that, in certain circumstances, a boy of thirteen who undertook sexual practices with a girl of twelve was committing a punishable offence.

  • In particular, no distinction is made whether anything is to be regarded as immoral per se, or whether it is only considered immoral in certain circumstances.

  • An icy bath may undoubtedly kill a consumptive; but do we know, whether, in certain circumstances, it might not save her?

  • It seems to belong to transparent minerals which have a rhomboid for their nucleus, and arises from the combination of certain circumstances in their cutting and structure.

  • A jackknife is, likewise, in certain circumstances, a means of production, just as surely as a powerful planing machine is, the difference being in degrees of efficiency.

  • Bricks, timber, lime, and iron become a house only in certain circumstances, when they bear a given ordered relation to each other.

  • There is a gradual increase in those enlarging the property and business rights of married women.

  • Some duties are so definite and so constantly obligatory that they ought to be vowed by all; others, obligatory only on some in certain circumstances, ought by such, in these circumstances alone, to be engaged to.

  • To state and maintain truth there is obligatory, and to promise and vow to do so, in certain circumstances, would be not merely allowable, but incumbent.

  • The tragedians frequently give expression to the idea that suicide is in certain circumstances becoming to a noble mind.

  • But though industry is applauded or insisted on, rest is also in certain circumstances regarded as a duty.

  • All modern codes regard provocation under certain circumstances as a mitigating circumstance.

  • Chalmers) collocations; the collocations consisting in the existence of certain agents or powers, in certain circumstances of place and time.

  • In the formation of any class, there is involved a conception of it as a class, that is, a conception of certain circumstances as being those which characterize the class, and distinguish the objects composing it from all other things.

  • They also detest our insistence, in certain circumstances, of the post-mortem examination of human bodies.

  • A betrothal is in practice as binding as a marriage; indeed, a betrothal that took place in the babyhood of both the principals may, in certain circumstances, be regarded as an actual marriage.

  • The belief is, a state or feeling of the mind as easily conceivable as any other state of it,--a new feeling, arising in certain circumstances as uniformly as in certain other circumstances.

  • This gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has really no right to force pleasure on men.

  • These he cannot remove nor select; and he is bound, in certain circumstances, to listen to their advice, although he is not obliged to follow it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain branches; certain classes; certain definite; certain distance; certain distances; certain forms; certain individuals; certain lady; certain objects; certain plants; certain proportion; certain quarters; certain rate; certain respects; certain sections; certain small; certain specified; certain standard; certain state; certain temperature; certain things; false knight; great horse; health and; heavy sigh; military history