It was to my mind a question of doing exactly as the little lad had planned, or else let him understand that I was set against a certain portion of it.
If the tax, instead of being a fixed sum per mine worked, were a certain portion of its produce, the quantity would not be reduced in consequence.
To each of these four classes there is assigned a certain portion of the "free agora": i.
A certain portion of the carbonic anhydride will penetrate through the pores of the unglazed tube into the interior of the tube T.
This is a phenomenon of dissociation; therefore, a series of sparks do not totally decompose the ammonia, but leave a certain portion undecomposed.
Of each of these a certain portion is to be given in alms, usually one part in forty, or two and a half per cent of the value.
As to the ancient Arabs setting apart a certain portion of the produce of their lands for their idols, and their superstitions abstaining from the use of certain cattle, in honour to the same, see chapter 5, p.
As used in actual judgment, however, the two are held together and constitute the statement of a single stimulus of which a certain portion is evident and a certain portion is in doubt.
To ask such questions shows that a certain portion of the universe of experience is subjected to critical analysis for purposes of definitive restatement.
Deities of vegetation, who are supposed to pass a certain portion of each year under ground, naturally come to be regarded as gods of the lower world or of the dead.
But it is to be observed that while all the Indonesian peoples seem to treat a certain portion of the rice at harvest with superstitious respect and ceremony, only a part of them actually call it "the Rice-mother.
The waves constantly undermine the low chalk cliffs, covered with sand and clay, between Weybourne and Sherringham, a certain portion of them being annually removed.
Precipitation is acknowledged to be the means whereby the surplus mineral matter is disposed of, after the consumption of a certain portion in the secretions of testacea, zoophytes, and other marine animals.
On the subject of the battles of May he was candid, and admitted his deep mortification and regrets.
She's been travelin' like a racer since we left the brig; and yonder's the first streak of day.
The heavy night air kept her canvas distended, and the weatherly set of the tide, trifling as it yet was, pressed her up against the breeze, so as to turn all to account.
Every monk, as well as every secular priest, required a certain portion of Latin.
The case of Latin is different: we know that he was at a grammar school, and could hardly have spent two or three years there without bringing away a certain portion of the language.
The materials of literary history must always be derived in great measure from biographical collections, those especially which intermix a certain portion of criticism with mere facts.
Faustus is better known; it contains nothing, perhaps, so dramatic as the first part of the Jew of Malta; yet the occasional glimpses of repentance and struggles of alarmed conscience in the chief character are finely brought in.
And how beautiful is the contrast of this character with the tender and modest Erminia!
Each landowner in the valley possesses a certain portion of hill-country, where his half-wild cattle, in considerable numbers, manage to find sufficient pasture.
The Chilian authorities are now performing an act of justice by making retribution to these poor Indians, giving to each man, according to his grade of life, a certain portion of land.
It could emit, at will, a certain portion of the water, and it appears, therefore, probable that this fluid is taken in partly for the sake of regulating its specific gravity.
The new estimate, they said, was identically the same with the former, except as to the principle, whether a certain portion of the amount should be kept constantly under the control of parliament.
His grace accordingly moved, in the committee, an amendment to the effect, that when waste or common lands should be enclosed, the commissioners should assign a certain portion of the land to the tithe-owner instead of his tithe.
Land scrip, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it.
The right of an actual settler upon public lands (particularly those of the United States) to purchase a certain portion at a fixed price in preference to all other applicants.
To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Law) Defn: A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
A certain portion of mankind are elected and saved, “to the praise of his glorious grace.
Granted, then, that a certain portion of the human race were thus made the objects of a peculiar favour, and prospectively endowed with the greatest of all conceivable blessings.
The Calvinists themselves being the interpreters, that passage teaches that God, according to his eternal purpose, chose or selected a certain portion out of the great mass of mankind as the heirs of eternal life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain portion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
