A nation does not chooseits institutions at will any more than it chooses the colour of its hair or its eyes.
For instance, should a legislator, wishing to impose a new tax, choose that which would be theoretically the most just?
The reason why the electors, of whom a majority are working men or peasants, so rarely choose a man from their own ranks to represent them is that such a person enjoys no prestige among them.
A certain Name belongs, by Nature or absolutely, to a certain thing, whether we choose it or not: it is not relative to any adoption by us, either individually or collectively.
These metaphysical difficulties are not diminished either in force or relevancy, because modern writers choose to leave them unnoticed.
It is not one man who will choose it, and another who will reject it: but every man will choose it alike.
How can any one, then, choosesuch an evil willingly?
He cannot choose another type according to his own pleasure: he must embody the type, prescribed by nature, in the iron, wood, or other material of which the instrument is made.
And Protarchus replies, in reference to the joint life of intelligence and pleasure combined, "Every man will choosethis joint life in preference to either of them separately.
You mustchoose this standard, explain what it is, and adhere to it when you undertake to praise or blame.
But in reply to these opponents, as well as to those whom we have before combated, we shall put before them three alternatives, of which they must choose one.
Side-note: Even if Plato himself saw through these subtleties, he might still choose to impose and to heap up difficulties in the way of a forward affirmative aspirant.
Though I have already indicated, incidentally, my decided objections to our prevalent system of Fencing, I deem the subject of such importance that I choose to discuss it directly.
In choosing a location, the farmer should resolve to choose once for all.
But as a matter of fact, what I should choose had got very little to do with it.
No," rejoined Isabella quickly, "You are quite right, we cannotchoose and we cannot all win.
We all know what we should like, but we can't choose our prize.
If I were obliged to choose between vines and shrubs--and I am very glad that I do not have to do so--I am quite sure I would choose the former.
Therefore, in planting it be sure to choose a location that is naturally well drained, or provide artificial drainage that will make up for the lack of natural drainage.
In making a selection of Hybrid Perpetuals for home planting, the amateur finds it difficult to choose from the long lists sent out by many dealers.
Choose a still day, if possible, for sowing, and cross-sow.
There are so many desirable ones to choose from that it is no easy matter to determine which you will have, because--you want them all!
If any trees are planted in front of the house, choose kinds having a high head, so that there will be no obstruction of the outlook from the dwelling.
She was absolutely certain that the man whom he would choose for her would be a very different sort of person from John Vanderlyn.
It was still light enough to choose a good spot for our bivouac, where we were near water; we were tolerably hidden, and had very good grass for our cattle.
I must naturally see where the animals were hit, for that is the real enjoyment to know how near you have gone to the right spot, and hence I walked up to the bucks to choose the best of the meat for my consumption at the same time.
The first duty of the General of the Army on taking up his office was to choose a man to succeed him, reserving to himself the power to change that man for another, should he see good reason for such a course.
If we leave California, what better place can we choose than the old home of my son's race, where his name has been honored for generations?
As long as that flag flutters over these islands, you can stand in the market place and read in as loud a voice as you choose out of this book and you will be safe.
Eberhardt of Minnesota: If I had the choice of being the founder of any great movement the world has ever known, I would choose the Chautauqua movement.
There were books enough in the world, but how could he choose the right ones?
Or if you choose to,--go, and do it, and be damned!
He conceived the ambition to be such another; and, when the day came for him to choose a profession, it was in emulation of Lord Glenalmond, not of Lord Hermiston, that he chose the Bar.
But, my dear boy, if it will do you any good to talk, and if it will interest you at all to hear what I may choose to say when I have heard you, I am quite at your command.
For certain invaluable minutes, the wheels of life ran before him, and he could still divert them with a touch to the one side or the other, still choose who was to live and who was to die.
FN#47] Then sent I to my herdsman bidding him choose for me a fat heifer; and he brought me one which was the damsel, my handmaid, whom this gazelle had ensorcelled.
Unless you are requested to do so, never select any particular part of a dish; but, if your host asks you what part you prefer, name some part, as in this case the incivility would consist in making your host choose as well as carve for you.
Fascinated by her beauty and gracious manner he determined to settle his fate, and ask her to go forward in the alphabet and choose the next letter to put to her surname.
Always allow your antagonist to choose his gloves from the set, though, if you recommend any to him, let him take the hardest ones and you the softest; thus he will receive the easier blows.
The best plan of all is, to choose some object in your bed-room on which to vent your hatred, and box at it violently for some ten minutes, till the perspiration covers you.
The young man who makes his first entrance into the world of society, should know how to choose his friends, and next how to conduct himself towards them.
If, when abroad, you visit a church to see the pictures or monuments within its walls, and not for worship, choose the hours when there is no service being read.
To know how to choose the moment when you will be regretted, and to retire leaving your friends anxious for a repetition of the call, is an accomplishment worth acquiring.
Choose paper which is thick, white, and perfectly plain.
You may thus pass an hour or two pleasantly, obtain useful information, and you need not carry on the acquaintance unless you choose to do so.
They will choose competent and faithful representatives for every department.
If they married, their children would be slaves, and he would have no power to protect his handsome wife from any outrages an unprincipled master, or his sons, might choose to perpetrate.
The murder was committed by those human hounds, who drove her to that fearful extremity, where she was compelled to choose between Slavery or Death for her innocent offspring.
Such a society necessarily springs out of faith and love, and its members cannot choose but unite outwardly because united inwardly.
We choose to converse on our Redeemer's indigent, imprisoned, diseased, agonized followers.
If I had to be born again, and might choose my sex and my birthplace, I would shout at the top of my voice: "Oh, make me an American woman!
The poor people must choose between vice and religion, and as the wretches know they are not wanted in the churches, they go to the taverns.
All of us are ready to strike at Santa Anna, but we must choose our own way.
Then it's our road to come back, and we can choose a roundabout road to go there by.
If we choose to make Jamaica into a Hayti, we need not look for Americans down that way.
Yet one listens and cannot choose but sympathise when anxious souls open out to you what is going on within them.
We remained still responsible for the social consequences, and we did not choose to remember it.
But it had pleased the Home Government to set up the beginning of a constitution again in Jamaica, no one knew why, but so it was, and Trinidad did not choose to be behindhand.
Let him choose his own advisers, let him be untrammelled, unless he falls into fatal and inexcusable errors, with interference from home.
The constituencies choose their members according to the fluency of their tongues.
The Americans, when they choose a President or a Secretary of State or any functionary from whom they require wise action, do not select these famous speech-makers.
The fashion of past times, as old as the times of Thucydides, and continued on till the end of the last century, was to choose the sites for important towns in estuaries, at a distance from the sea, to be out of the reach of pirates.
But the traveller whose heart is with his kind, and who cares only to see his brother mortals making their corner of this planet into an orderly and rational home, had better choose some other object for his pilgrimage.
But it is not a place which I should choose for a swim.
They act from day to day under the pressure of each exigency as it rises, and they choose the course which is least directly inconvenient.
He had fallen into the habit of leaving the boy to choose his own course, believing that in time he would master himself.
The Domine thinks writing as a profession must choose you, that you cannot choose it.
You couldna find an uglier word for a life-saver, and if folk canna be satisfied wi' their ain natural tongue, and must hae a foreign name, they might choose a bonnie one.
I understood her motives; and though I did not choose to undeceive her, I took care that she should not be a loser by the kindness which she showed me.
To do so, it was necessary to choose as my subject the life of a young man placed in circumstances of difficulty and temptation; and no writer can ever hope to produce a good effect by painting man otherwise than man is.
Choose one from this heap; and see that the flap fall clear over the inner part of your fore-arm.
I did not hesitate in regard to which I should choose of the three plans that Garcias propounded.
If I were to choose a way of fooling myself with prophecies, a thousand times rather would I follow the art of the ancient Tuscans, and draw my divination from the lightning, which at all events comes near our mortal habitation.
So great is the advantage of those who attack, in being able to choose the point against which to direct their grand effort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "choose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
