That to indulge any one fault, brings with it the temptation of committing others, is demonstrated by the behaviour of Natura, and the misfortunes and disgrace which an ill-judged shame had like to have involved him in.
Troops committing outrages in a city are accused virgines vestales incestasse.
Such was the notion, which is imputed also to the Albigenses, that civil magistrates lose their right to govern by committing sin, or, as it was quaintly expressed in the seventeenth century, that dominion is founded in grace.
This may even prevent the necessity of going to war by discouraging belligerent powers from committing such violations of the rights of the neutral party as may, first or last, leave no other option.
Depredations by our citizens upon nations at peace with the United States, or combinations for committing them, have at all times been regarded by the American Government and people with the greatest abhorrence.
If New Mexico were held and governed by the United States, we could effectually prevent these tribes from committing such outrages, and compel them to release these captives and restore them to their families and friends.
Unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel, being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew.
This past December, America led the world to reach a historic agreementcommitting our nation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through market forces, new technologies, energy efficiency.
I am happy in this opportunity of committing the arduous affairs of our Government to the collected wisdom of the Union.
The envoy of the United States attended as a delegate, but refrained from committing this Government to the results, even by signing the recommendatory protocol adopted.
Mobs frequently avenge the commission of this crime by themselves torturing to death the man committing it; thus avenging in bestial fashion a bestial deed, and reducing themselves to a level with the criminal.
To keep a convicted criminal from committing more crimes, we must put him in prison so he cannot harm more law-abiding citizens.
She was now quite rosy, and seemed ashamed, as though she were committing a fault.
I felt that I, a profane person, was committing a sacrilege by coming to disturb those two men praying there all alone in the gloom of that sad morning.
Intercourse could not continue on that footing, for Augusta probably aimed at a positive guarantee of her innocence, and at committing Lady Byron irretrievably to that.
When you read it you realized that you were committing an illegal action?
He knew that he was committing a serious breach of discipline, but could not bear to go away without offering the consolation of a friendly word.
It was only in appearances that she could make concessions, and a time would even arrive when her concessions would cease, in presence of the impossibility of going any further withoutcommitting suicide.
But he used to gather up the cuttings carefully, and hide all out of sight before his mother came home--sometimes nearly caught before quite prepared, when he used to show as much trepidation as if committing a crime.
I was so charmed by its beauty that I could not resist the temptation of committing it to memory.
Under weak and unskilful chiefs the crusaders while on the way wandered about like undisciplined bands of robbers, plundering cities, committing the most abominable enormities, and spreading misery and desolation where-ever they passed.
The weekly lesson consisted in committing to memory five to seven verses in the more important chapters of the New Testament and Psalms, commencing with the ten commandments in Exodus XX, 1-17.
Satisfied that the latter have been reached in too hasty a manner and without a sufficient time having been expended upon comparative observations, they are cautioned by this example against committing a like error.
The stores, which were all that could be brought up in the state of the waters, were now found to be wholly insufficient to allow of committing the party to the unexplored country between this stream and Tuladi.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
While committing to memory a form of words, or trying a new piece of music, every separate movement of your tongue or of your fingers is consequent on some separate volition.
Those who believe that the merit or demerit of each separate action depends on that action's separate consequences, need seldom be at a loss for a pretext for committing the most heinous of crimes.
Thus the villain unwittingly saved the hero from the painful necessity of committing murder, and added another reel to the picture.
She had no intention of committing bigamy, even if she had been temptable to such recklessness.
Now the law says that 'any understanding preceding the act of adultery' is collusion; it involves the committing of a crime.
Her resentment of the woman's imagined hypocrisy and of her husband's apparent duplicity blazed into an eagerness for vengeance--the classic vengeance of punishing a crime by committing another of the sort.
Is it not exactly because this would be to fulfil [fulfill sic] a regulation by committing a transgression?
Poor Hercules roared and crushed the dishes with his fingers, drowning his grief and his rage by committingall sorts of barbarities.
He was too young to have that cool courage of a man who bids another to stand and deliver and, after committing robbery, walks away without more ado.
When in the lodging-house he is always to be seen reading the Bible, committing passages to memory, but he enters into conversation with anyone that comes near.
But the Father of Evil was not minded that the King should proceed undisturbed in his quest for salvation, and that night appeared to him as he was in the act of committing the hermit to the grave.
The young man looked down and saw the lion, sitting on his haunches, at one end of the arena; he then shook hands with his companions, and committing himself to the care of Heaven, sprang in.
It has been proven in one instance that swearing allegiance to the United States Constitution had but little effect, in preventing members of the "Invisible Empire" from committing acts of lawlessness.
And many a time did my grandfather undertake the tedious journey down here, from the north, to lend a seasonable hand in restraining Mr. Dudley from committing some ruinous foolishness in respect of Miss Agnes, or of his own southern property.
I have nothing to give you, but I want to warn you to restrain your warriors from committing any depredations around here.
The officer in command spoke in words of comfort, saying, "he sympathized with him, and was pleased at this mark of confidence in committing to his care the remains of his loved child.
Any private individual, as well as an officer, may arrest without warrant a person whom he sees committing a crime.
But in some cases an arrest may be made without a warrant, as when an offender is seen committing a crime or when an officer has good reason to believe that the person who is charged with committing a crime is the guilty person.
When the Turks take this attitude and try to repress this intestinal strife they are accused of committing “atrocities.
This severity did not, however, prevent another body of weavers assembling on the 1st of June, and committing many acts of violence and outrage; and the cavalry was again obliged to act.
Fierce men formed themselves into raiding bands and went westward that night, committingall sorts of depredations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "committing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
