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Example sentences for "condition precedent"

  • I know that most of the Nationalist leaders justify the employment of these methods on the ground that, in their opinion, the constitutional reforms they advocate are a condition precedent to industrial progress.

  • The reader may wonder why I touch so lightly upon a fact of such profound significance as the Irishman's acceptance of self-help as a condition precedent of State aid in the development of agriculture and industry.

  • For they undertook to break down the strongest of all prejudices, as they themselves say, as a condition precedent to the doing of acts which, to do at all, required great pecuniary sacrifices and a high tone of moral feeling.

  • Maryland society was compulsory expatriation, as a condition precedent to freedom.

  • I am told that Government of South African Republic will demand disarmament of Johannesburg as a condition precedent to negotiations.

  • The good padre, unable to absolve him, referred him to the Barcelona tribunal, where, as a condition precedent, he was required to denounce all whom he knew to be Moors.

  • The jurisdiction of the Holy Office over heresy was confined to the baptized, for baptism is a condition precedent to heresy; the unbaptized are outside of the Church and it has no spiritual authority over them.

  • Our Ministers, General Armstrong and Mr. Pinkney, appear to have puzzled themselves much about this condition, to discover whether it was a condition precedent, or a condition subsequent.

  • This broad assertion was designed to deny even the right of Congress to make impartial suffrage in the revised constitutions a condition precedent to the re-admission of the rebellious States to representation.

  • But recognition of design is a condition precedent to the awakening of the fancy or the imagination, and to achieve such recognition there must be intelligent hearing in the first instance.

  • Its possession is accepted as a condition precedent in the case of everyone who ventures to appear upon the concert-platform.

  • With the married, the assent of the spouse was of course a condition precedent.

  • Denial, as we have seen, was obduracy, punished by the stake, and confession was a condition precedent to admission to abjuration.

  • Next it was made a condition precedent to an investigation that the said oath should be taken by the prisoner.

  • The act also required the Legislature that should be elected to ratify the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as a condition precedent "to the readmission of the State into the Union.

  • In other words, whatever qualifications may be prescribed and fixed as a condition precedent to voting, must be applicable to white and colored alike.

  • It would have been to do the very thing which I condemned in the President when he prevented an early signing of the peace by insisting on the acceptance of the Covenant of the League of Nations as a condition precedent.

  • Besides this, citizenship has not in all cases been made a condition precedent to the enjoyment of the right of suffrage.

  • The Act made registration in the Register Book of the Company of Stationers before publication a condition precedent to an action for the infringement of any book.

  • I do not find the word 'original' in the statute, or any word which imparts it as a condition precedent, or makes originality of thought or idea necessary to the right.

  • The condition is a clear case of what is called a condition precedent.

  • The detriment may be nothing but a condition precedent to performance of the promise, as where a man promises another to pay him five hundred dollars if he breaks his leg.

  • We have been striving to bend him to our preconceived notion instead of finding out who and what he is as a condition precedent to intelligent teaching.

  • If only every teacher were able to make each lesson a vital prophecy of what the pupil is to be and to do twenty years hence, then that lesson would become a condition precedent to the pupil's future behavior.

  • It is evident, therefore, that soundness of body is a condition precedent to complete living.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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