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Example sentences for "committal"

Lexicographically close words:
commited; commitment; commitments; commits; committ; committals; committe; committed; committee; committeeman
  1. But if the judgment be for payment by instalments a power of committal arises on default of payment for each instalment.

  2. Steele found him also non-committal as to when the auxiliary force would be available.

  3. Were the Lettres de Cachet of Louis XV, any greater outrage on the personal liberty of French subjects, than Hindman's arrests and committal to the Penitentiary of suspected persons?

  4. Then why throw my non-committal policy in my teeth?

  5. He passed the cryptogram over to his chief, who studied it for a while with a meditative frown, then laid it aside and listened in a non-committal silence to his story.

  6. The hatchet-faced woman nodded her head in slow and non-committal thought.

  7. In most, cases an information or deposition containing evidence which would justify a committal for trial in Great Britain will be required.

  8. The examination of the prisoner prior to his committal for extradition ordinarily takes place at Bow Street.

  9. On the 19th, however, Pitt refused to join the Grenvilles in supporting Fox's motion for the re-committal of the volunteer consolidation bill.

  10. Accordingly, the speaker issued a warrant for his committal to the Tower.

  11. I may add that, while I do not perceive how such committal could facilitate our military operations in Louisiana, I really apprehend it might be so used as to embarrass them.

  12. This fact alone, as it seems to me, is a sufficient reason why the General Government should not give the committal you seek to the existing State constitution.

  13. This non-committal attitude, of which Spanish statesmen were always so fond, soon tired the downright English politicians of the Parliament, and they began to show their teeth.

  14. Here the basis for a definition of faith was a non-committal creed presented by Eusebius of Cæsarea, the Church historian (f).

  15. But for this the family found no cause for committal to the asylum, since such committal would necessarily invalidate what he had done.

  16. He sent down on the evening of the committal of the crime to ask me up.

  17. All the evidence pointed to his committal of the crime.

  18. The twilight had faded into all but complete darkness when the dogs growled in a non-committal way, as though merely to indicate human approach without resenting it.

  19. A debate in the house of lords took place on the committal of the bill, which was moved by Earl Dalhousie on the 4th of July.

  20. On Mr. Roebuck's withdrawal, Mr. Hume moved the postponement of the committal to that day six months.

  21. Since then he had grown both older and firmer; and he was now determined to take the sense of the house on the committal of the bill.

  22. On the 5th of May, when the order of the day was read for the house to resolve itself into committee on the bill, the Duke of Wellington rose, and moved to defer the committal till the 9th of June.

  23. On the committal of the bill, the illustrious duke proposed the substitution of the words "sovereign of the Roman states" for those of "sovereign pontiff.

  24. Another measure for the relief of Ireland was proposed by ministers to enable government to make advances from the treasury on the security of the rates, and excited a debate, when its committal was moved on the 8th of February.

  25. Committal of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver to the Tower.

  26. Subsequently, a discussion took place on the committal of the bill.

  27. The very men who had voted for the introduction of the popular bills proposed by Grattan, on the committal of them gave their votes against them, and they were rejected.

  28. He would call the landlady of the deceased to show that ill-feeling existed between the prisoner and the murdered man, and that the accused had called on the deceased a week prior to the committal of the crime, and threatened his life.

  29. All the evidence given by the different witnesses agreed completely, and formed a chain which showed the whole of the prisoner's movements at the time of the committal of the murder.

  30. The committal of the crime in such an extraordinary place as a hansom cab had been startling enough, but the discovery that the assassin was one of the most fashionable young men in Melbourne was still more so.

  31. She also proved that at the time of the committal of the crime the prisoner was still in the back slum, by the bed of the dying woman, and, there being only one door to the room, he could not possibly have left without the witness seeing him.

  32. In order to account for the murder of Oliver Whyte, I must go back to the beginning of my life in this colony, and show how the series of events began which culminated in the committal of the crime.

  33. To think that the author of such a crime is at present at large, walking in our midst, and perhaps preparing for the committal of another, is enough to shake the strongest nerves.

  34. The committal of the crime was merely the fulfilment of the words uttered in anger.

  35. They wisely concluded, if the canvass were merely a game to win votes, that the non-committal plan was the safe one.

  36. She listened with non-committal interest, with an amused, patronizing glimmer of a smile "You did not fall in love with her, did you?

  37. He was non-committal in expressing his own views; but afterward, when coffee was handed round, he declared that the talk had been of the greatest interest.

  38. I gave them my map of the aerodrome, showing the place of rendezvous, and also a non-committal note, scribbled in German, which would explain their identity if they met the Bosnian.

  39. That the great Smeaton should seek the advice of a lieutenant, except in the most casual and non-committal way, was a thing unprecedented.

  40. They also had to frame many non-committal answers to the question, "How do you stand on the A.

  41. On the strength of Hancock's perfectly non-committal interview and Garfield's frank letter, several of the prominent Democratic women rushed into a campaign for that party, whereupon Miss Anthony called them down in vigorous language.


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