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Example sentences for "clauses"

Lexicographically close words:
clattered; clattering; claught; clausa; clause; clausit; claustra; claustral; claustro; clausum
  1. The specific reservations and restrictions were contained in clauses 3 and 4 of the Bill, which were as follows:-- "3.

  2. It contained clauses dealing with urban as well as rural industries, but these lie outside my present subject, and I shall not refer to them further here.

  3. It was in Latin of prodigious length; but the following are the clauses as I make them out, and will suffice for this work.

  4. When one of two clauses depends on the other, they are separated by a comma.

  5. When in a compound sentence the clauses have each a different nominative, but have only one verb, expressed in the first clause and understood in the others, the ellipsis, or place of the verb, should be supplied by a comma.

  6. A constitution of seventy clauses was promulgated; the emperor was to retain his title and receive a pension, and be accorded the civility due to a foreign sovereign.

  7. Adverbs or adverbial phrases, when used as connectives, or when they modify not single words, but clauses or sentences, are each followed by a comma; and if used intermediately they admit a comma before as well as after them.

  8. In subordinate clauses the tense of the verb is relative to the tense of the principal verb.

  9. In numerous clauses in the Constitution, the Territories were recognized as States.

  10. Without any attempt to ignore the most obnoxious parts of the act, he passed directly to the discussion of the clauses which apparently denied the writ of habeas corpus and trial by jury to the fugitive from service.

  11. From the long and careful clauses in the following act, for the reprisal and compensation of those classes, we must infer that Keating's memorial produced its intended effect.

  12. There certainly are grounds for supposing that some great jugglery, either as to the clauses or names in the act, was perpetrated by this well-paid and unscrupulous Williamite.

  13. The temptation to fabricate as much of the act (clauses or names) as possible was immense.

  14. There certainly are non-obstante and non-resistance clauses ordered to be inserted, in the prerogative spirit of that day, which were justly complained of.

  15. An Act for Liberty of Conscience, and Repealing such Acts or Clauses in any Act of Parliament which are inconsistent with the same.

  16. However, these clauses require to be carefully examined, to see whether they carry out this principle of compensation fairly and impartially.

  17. Nor need the remaining clauses militate against the view that the ransomed man is the subject in them.

  18. The plain way of understanding the verse is to suppose that the person spoken of in all the clauses is the same; and then the question comes whether he is the king or the ransomed man.

  19. Selah, and the remaining clauses as out of place, and properly belonging to ver.

  20. The emendation of the verb to the third person plural by the addition of a letter brings the clauses into line, and retains the usual force of the verb.

  21. It combines the second and third clauses of ver.

  22. The ground of his plea for cleansing and deliverance is the glory of God's name, which he emphatically puts at the end of both clauses of ver.

  23. The first outpouring of the song is one long sentence, of which the clauses follow one another like sunlit ripples, and tell the whole process of the psalmist's deliverance.

  24. With what vigour the short, crashing clauses of ver.

  25. There appears to be some flaw in the text, as the clauses are unsymmetrical, and possibly the punctuators have marked a hiatus by the sign (Pasek) after the word "daughter of Tyre.

  26. A meeting had been held to oppose certain clauses in the proposed Haven and Pier Bill then before Parliament, Mr. Alderman Barth in the chair, the following took part in the proceedings:—Messrs.

  27. The petitions against the Educational Clauses of the Factories Regulation Bill from the parents of Sunday School Children had received upwards of 500 signatures in the course of a few hours.

  28. The Haven Commissioners had drafted certain clauses to be inserted in the New Haven Bill.

  29. Joan, whilst she was awaiting it, sent the English captains a fresh summons to withdraw conformably with the letter which she had already addressed to them from Blois, and the principal clauses of which were just now quoted here.

  30. If it does, it must be in one of those clauses which have been mentioned by the worthy member.

  31. He wished for negative clauses to prevent them from assuming any powers but those expressly given.

  32. The clauses of the Constitution to which we refer as of a pro-slavery character are the following :-- ART.

  33. These are the clauses which the abolitionist, by voting or taking office, engages to uphold.

  34. Observe that this objection allows the Constitution to be pro-slavery, and admits that there are clauses in it which no abolitionist ought to carry out or support.

  35. To this Committee were referred also the two clauses above mentioned of the fourth and fifth Sections of Article 7.

  36. The first section and two first clauses of the second section read without observation.

  37. We have extracted from them, in these pages, all the Debates on those clauses of the Constitution which relate to slavery.

  38. The first three clauses of the second section read.

  39. Thanks to the dog's interruption, and to the necessity of saving herself from discovery, the last clauses of the Will had been read in her absence.

  40. Meanwhile, Mr. Mool turned over a page of the Will, and arrived at the clauses relating to Carmina and her guardian.

  41. The Bill was carried in the Commons; but the Lords again tacked two clauses to it, one declaring it high treason to endeavour to alter the succession as settled in the Princess Sophia, and the other to impose the oath on the Irish.

  42. Different views have been taken of the clauses of the charter relating to religion.

  43. Many speakers yield to the temptation to strive for effect by delivering exclamatory sentences--sometimes only clauses and phrases so enunciated.

  44. Grandfather clauses exempting persons qualified as electors before 1866 and their descendants from requirements applicable to other voters, were held to violate the Fifteenth Amendment.

  45. The due process and equal protection clauses overlap but the spheres of protection they offer are not coterminous.

  46. There are unquestionably clauses and sentences and provisions in the Committee's draught which show the hand of the thoughtful statesman or of the good lawyer.

  47. The relation between the second and third clauses is exhibited in the following: 26-1.

  48. Sentence 1 is composed of two clauses connected by a conjunction, as is also Sentence 22-1.

  49. If a period were used here, instead of the colon, the relation between the two sentences (clauses formed into sentences by the use of the period) might easily be taken for the and relation.

  50. The incongruity of the and relation becomes apparent upon reading the first and second clauses with "and" between them.

  51. The second and third clauses of this sentence are as plainly explanatory of the first clause as are the items that follow the colon in No.

  52. It is divided by semicolons into four clauses, apparently in a series; but an analysis of the meaning of the language will show that the four clauses do not constitute a series.

  53. Its use in both clauses may be said to follow the punctuation diagrammatically exhibited in Sentence 3-2.

  54. The three clauses constitute one complete idea, and therefore make a sentence.

  55. And Englishmen will submit to this; and will let their members be gagged and the clauses shoved through the House by hydraulic power.

  56. The Treasury clauses they declare to have been drawn by a deadly enemy of Ireland, but here again they find salvation in the alleged inconsistency of the various provisions of the bill.

  57. It will perhaps have been observed that by one of the clauses of Mdme.

  58. In addition to the clauses in the prima donna's written engagement, there is always an understanding by which she is to receive so many stalls, so many boxes, so many places in the pit, and so many in the gallery.

  59. Police regulations are very much to the fore and occupy no less than 72 clauses of the royal legislation.

  60. And now that it is a fact, no one wishes the clauses of the Constitution to which we have alluded to be stricken out.

  61. The two clauses balance each other: all your brethren--all the seed of Ephraim.

  62. Perhaps both clauses of the verse rather express a prophecy: All men will be proven brutish, destitute of knowledge; every founder will blush for the graven image.

  63. On his return it was found that new clauses had been introduced into the bill, and particularly one requiring the debentures to be made payable in England, to which Alderman Joshua G.

  64. Du Verney died before the last two clauses had been executed, so that it was to his heir, the Comte de la Blache, that Beaumarchais presented the act demanding its execution.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clauses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.