On the other hand, they are not physiological species, for they are descended from a common stock, the rock-pigeon.
Given sufficient time and sufficiently careful selection, and the multitude of races which may arise from a common stock is as astonishing as are the extreme structural differences which they may present.
And there was a matter of something like half a billion dollars of common stock represented by no tangible assets, pure water it was claimed.
From this short review it will be easy to distinguish between that class of natural rights which man retains after entering into society, and those which he throws into common stock as a member of society.
Without access to such a common stock of immaterial equipment no individual and no fraction of the community can make a living, much less make an advance.
Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock?
These habits and instincts are all the results of physiological differences and peculiarities, which have been developed from a common stock, at least there is every reason to believe so.
Most naturalists take into their very conception of a species, explicitly or by implication, the notion of a material connection resulting from the descent of the individuals composing it from a common stock, of local origin.
If we once admit that two true species of the same genus can have descended from the same parent, it will not be possible to deny that two species of two genera may also have descended from a common stock.
It would, I think, be a marvellous fact, if species have been formed by distinct acts of creation, that they should act upon each other in uniting, like races descended from a common stock.
Is it not evident that, with every generation, the slight varieties would cross-breed with one another and with the parent stock, and thus all varietal differences would be funded into a common stock, and the type would be preserved unchanged?
Individual varieties are constantly being formed and again funded back into the common stock by cross-breeding.
We cannot, then, in ethnological reasoning, get at the precise year in which any one or two languages separated from a common stock, so as to say that this separated so long before the other.
Of two tongues separated at the same time from a common stock, one may change rapidly, the other slowly; and, hence, a dissimilar physiognomy at the end of a given period.
A crowd always has a common stock of elementary faiths, prejudices, loves and hates, and pet notions.
They set notions of heroism and duty, and furnished all Greeks with a common stock of narratives, ideas, and ideals, and with sentiments which everybody knew and which could be rearoused by an allusion.
Such men have had a common stock of quotations, of accepted views in life philosophy, and of current ethical opinions.
Amongst Protestants the Bible has, in the last four hundred years, furnished a common stock of history and anecdote, and has also furnished phrases and current quotations familiar to all classes.
Instead of increasing the proportion of bonded indebtedness, as was customary, the company sought additional capital chiefly by the sale of common stock.
While dividends are payable prior to dividends on common stock, no liability attaches to the corporation if earnings in any year are insufficient to pay dividends.
Common Stock is the stock of a corporation issued to all stockholders under the same conditions, and which is to share equally in the dividends.
Preferred Stock is stock which gives its owner certain preferences over the owners of common stock.
This preference usually consists of a provision for the payment of certain dividends out of the net earnings of the business before any dividends can be paid on common stock.
It must not be supposed that the divergence of each race from the other races, and of all the races from a common stock, can be traced back to any one pair of progenitors.
The unity of life amid all its diversity seems to point to origin from a common stock.
Evidence of biology points to the descent of all mammals, of all vertebrates, of all animals, of all organic beings, from a common stock.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common stock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
