The German artillery, observing the concentration of the Seventh Division opposite Aubers, opened a vigorous fire upon that front.
An artilleryconcentration absolutely unprecedented up to that time was employed by him.
As she spoke to him he was struck afresh by the singular concentration of her expression.
Nevertheless, the economic point of view must be paramount, for the concentration of capital in the hands of a single class forms the basis of all the other forms of its domination.
But he lacks concentration and finish, and is therefore never likely to be much read again as a whole.
It was impossible that such a mass of matter should be all good; and it is equally impossible to deny that the combined fact of so much production and of so little concentration argues a certain idiosyncrasy of defect.
They were a great deal of trouble and a source of distraction from work while they were alive; and one's heart was wrung and one's concentrationdisturbed at their death.
The concentration of negroes, coolies, Chinese and Portuguese on the coast furnishes an unfailing supply of convicts to the settlement, while the great world of life all about affords to the naturalist a bounty rich beyond all conception.
The head appears however to have suffered in the course of its differentiation a great concentration in its posterior part, which becomes progressively more marked, even within the limits of the surviving Vertebrata.
This concentration is especially shewn in the structure of the vagus nerve, which, as first pointed out by Gegenbaur, bears evidence of having been originally composed of a great series of nerves, each supplying a visceral cleft.
And please remember also that these tremendous figures represent only the progress made toward the concentration of wealth mainly within the period of a single generation.
The economic function and possibilities of the farmer had similarly been dwarfed or cut off as a result of the concentration of the business system of the country in the hands of a few.
During this period the concentration of capital in few hands, already alarming to the far-sighted in the forties, had time, almost unobserved and quite unresisted, to push its conquest of the country and the people.
Rent and interest meant, therefore, like profits, a constant drawing away of the purchasing power of the community at large and its concentration in the hands of a small part of it.
The consequences of this amazing concentration of wealth formerly so equally diffused, as it had affected the industrial, the social, and the political interests of the people, could not have been other than revolutionary.
The systematic prosecution of mentalconcentration and the idea that supernatural powers can be acquired thereby are very old—certainly older than Buddhism.
Its inflexions are heavy and monotonous and the sentences lack concentration and variety.
The eighth and last section of the path is sammâ-samâdhi, right concentration or rapture.
Temperance, chastity and mental concentration are great aids for increasing the force of thought and will.
But even the earlier Upanishads allude to the special physical and mental discipline necessary to produce concentration of mind.
All Indian precepts and directions for mental training attach far more importance to concentration of thought and the power of applying the mind at will to one subject exclusively than is usual in Europe.
Mental concentration is essential to samâdhi, which is the opposite of those wandering desires often blamed as seeking for pleasure here and there.
But samâdhi is more than mere concentration or even meditation and may be rendered by rapture or ecstasy, though like so many technical Buddhist terms it does not correspond exactly to any European word.
The industrial and political supremacy of the bourgeoisie threatens it with certain destruction; on the one hand, from the concentration of capital; on the other, from the rise of a revolutionary proletariat.
It was the very delirium and terror of motion, such as few mortals can experience, the irresisted, irresistible forward rush of the whole being--the concentration of all thought into that one idea of a sweep through immensity.
There is no good ground for supposing that this steadfast regard to the fruitfulness and variety of the individual intelligence tends specially to lead to the concentration of energy upon individual aims.
Finally vomiting me, in a fit of either weariness, mercy or disgust, into a concentration camp for untrained civilians.
But the Germans seemed to know every concentrationof troops we made in that region.
In such a situation it stands to reason that the concentration of the whole force of the stronger belligerent against the whole force equally concentrated of the weaker belligerent would not be necessary and would very rarely be expedient.
There are, it is true, some disadvantages involved in a close and sustained concentration of naval forces, especially in home waters.
He had received numerous reports of movements of French ships in the Channel to the eastward of the Isle of Wight and other information which pointed to a concentration at Dunkirk.
A concentration of many grudges, kept very still, as by white heat, characterised this remarkable speech.
Here I may have a succession of pure washes by mere concentration of what I find.
The purpose of this paper is to outline the beginnings of the concept of Rapid Dominance, itsconcentration on strategy, technology and innovation, and its focus on Shock and Awe.
Concentration of responsibility can be brought about in one of two ways--either by subordinating the legislature to the executive or the executive to the legislature.
Of these different sources of existing legislation, the last suggests a manner of initiating legislation, which is most likely to make for the efficient concentration of governmental responsibility.
Considering the enormous increase in British responsibilities imposed by the maritime expansion of Germany, will not Great Britain be obliged to adopt a policy of concentration rather than expansion?
The concentration of every man on his own interests has been the danger and not the safety of democracy, for democracy contemplates that every man shall think first of the state and next of himself.
The chief abuse of our trades-unions has been their concentration of attention upon the organization of strikes.
This Father said that he had remarked a concentration and such an extraordinary presence of God on my countenance, that he said to himself, "I have never seen a woman like that"; and this was what made him desire to see me again.
The natural concentration of business concerns in one line, in one locality, suggests the many advantages that accrue from attrition and propinquity.
On 'XY night' we left Query Camp and took up our positions in our concentration trenches near Vlamertinghe.
Battalion left Query Camp and we marched to our concentration trenches beyond Vlamertinghe.
He was talking about a great concentration up North--guns and supplies and men swarming there recently.
My diary tells the story of these last days until I packed it up with my kit which I handed in when we reached our concentration area in front of the Café Belge on the right of the Vlamertinghe-Ypres road on July 29.
The Greek saw that this concentration of military forces had assumed the aspect of a permanent city.
Behind them stood a row of columns in a semicircle, sustaining the cupola through which filtered a crepuscular light which seemed to favor meditation and concentration of the mind.
Is it not rather to reflect and to hear at the same time, to manage an interior concentration with which the eye, essentially an explorative organ, would interfere?
The faculty was perhaps not worth the damage it does to concentration of mind on some useful subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concentration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
