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Example sentences for "courses"

Lexicographically close words:
cours; course; coursed; courser; coursers; coursing; court; courte; courted; courteous
  1. Battle of Jutland: First Phase [Illustration: This diagram indicates the courses and ranges during the first stage of the battle, from the establishment of contact by the battle cruiser squadrons at 3:30 P.

  2. By his order the British fleet steamed through the dark hours at moderate speed on southerly courses some ninety miles from the battlefield.

  3. This was evident in the first phase, when Admiral Beatty's six battle cruisers were fighting on parallel courses with Admiral Hipper's five battle cruisers.

  4. Certain workers were allowed to attend shorter courses given by the various institutions while they continued to work.

  5. Water from the upper courses of these and several other streams supplies the Sofia area with both water and electricity, and they have a potential for further development.

  6. As a result of the center's activities, the next year each okrug was directed to organize schools with three-month-long vocational training courses and to canvass its area for young people who required the instruction.

  7. Once these courses are completed, the worker may continue in either a secondary polytechnic or a vocational school.

  8. Courses generally run from two to three years, depending on the field of specialization.

  9. The entire educational system was controlled by the government through the Ministry of Public Education, which regulated the contents of texts and courses and the administration of exams.

  10. Most courses in higher education would be reduced from five to four years, enabling students to complete all levels of education by the age of twenty rather than twenty-five.

  11. The courses would last a minimum of three years, during which students would be considered to be on active military duty and after which graduates could continue in the service as noncommissioned officers.

  12. Technicums and vocational-technical secondary schools, on the other hand, offered courses ranging from two to five years that gave the student a specialized education.

  13. In 1949 correspondence courses were initiated for manual workers and civil servants.

  14. These are built in courses of large flat stones fitted together without cement, the walls being about 5 ft.

  15. Enormous landslips accompanied the earthquake, and as an indirect effect of these slides the form of the water-courses became in certain cases modified.

  16. All these courses were accompanied and adorned with suttleties, as they were called.

  17. On thus tracing the route of all those which appear, it is ascertained that they move in courses exactly parallel, describing circles which all have their centre on a common axis, passing through the centre of the sun.

  18. Benefit of the Clergy as an excuse for pleading, or might demand it after conviction: and the latter of these courses has been almost invariably adopted, to allow the prisoner the chance of a verdict of acquittal.

  19. Four courses are open in the university--viz.

  20. At night he courses through the wood and sky with a noisy, yelping pack, and woe to the man who sees him!

  21. Out of six courses of superior training which it provides for its one thousand students, forestry and agriculture count as two.

  22. Its courses of study are up to the best standards.

  23. It is said that Portugal possesses seven agricultural schools, attended in 1896 by one hundred and eighty-seven students, but of their location, save one, and courses of study the writer has no information.

  24. We talked about the different courses through which life ran.

  25. They are more often used for serving with a heavy course in a dinner or between two courses than as a dessert.

  26. I should be of opinion that this inlet communicated with the one we last crossed, as branches from each take such courses as would, I think, cause them to unite.

  27. We proceeded on a variety of courses to avoid the deep ravines or glens which conducted numerous small streams of water to the principal one.

  28. Cape Race soon heard that the Virginian was on her way to the Titanic's position, then that the Olympic and Carpathia had altered their courses and were making for the wounded ship, and so on.

  29. Present-day practice does not bear out this setting, for the courses per inch usually fall short of a 50 per cent.

  30. This is obtained from the same formula as Examples 24 and 25 except that the width is substituted for courses per inch.

  31. Find the courses per inch required for a fabric worked in 18 skeins, 60 in.

  32. When the loop is shortened it means that a larger number of courses can be inserted per inch and so the weight is increased.

  33. This presser is also given a sidewise movement to insure that the needles are cleared of their stitches every two courses or so.

  34. If single courses are inserted it means that one of the thread-carriers has to be kept on the off side of the frame and special tackle requires to be used to work odd courses on these machines.

  35. If the loop is required shorter so as to accommodate a larger number of courses per inch, the knitting cam is raised in its adjustment so that a shorter stitch is the result.

  36. He attended three courses of lectures in the Harvard Medical School at Boston, and was graduated at that institution in the summer of 1837.

  37. There was only one of two courses of action--either complete neutrality, or the conquest of Portugal for the Queen.

  38. There were two courses open to Her Majesty's Government, both intelligible, both honourable.

  39. The whole ascent of the mountain is interesting, particularly in that part which is like a great ocean of lava, and where the guides point out the courses of the different eruptions, all of which may be distinctly traced.

  40. They began by putting him through several courses of mercury, and they sent him to the Greenwoods' villa at Brompton.

  41. Are any of the race-courses therein mentioned still used as such?

  42. This is the earliest mention of fixed English race-courses that I have met with, and not being much versed in the secrets of the modern "cespite vivo," I am obliged to inquire of those who are better informed on that subject.

  43. Many a man and many a woman, while continuing to work for some firm or factory, has taken Temple technical courses and thus fitted himself or herself for an advanced position with the same employer.

  44. And it knows of teachers who, while continuing to teach, have fitted themselves through the Temple courses for professorships.

  45. The number of those enrolled in the courses was limited to 600 (of these only 3 per cent could be unorthodox, i.

  46. Kindergartens were established; also courses for the instruction of adult women, for women principals of high schools, for women in the Gymnasiums and Realgymnasiums.

  47. The French woman's rights movement has as yet not succeeded in establishing Gymnasiums for girls; at present, efforts are being made to introduce Gymnasium courses in the girls' lycees.

  48. The women completing the courses in St. Petersburg were not granted the doctor's degree, however.

  49. This section establishes kindergartens; it has opened a seminary for kindergartners, and courses for women teachers of gymnastics.

  50. No Canadian university excludes women entirely, but not a few of the higher institutions of learning refuse women admission to certain courses and refuse to grant certain degrees.

  51. In another institution courses were given for midwives and for women regimental surgeons.

  52. These courses are still given in St. Petersburg.

  53. They opened courses for the instruction of adult women in the town hall.

  54. In 1889 the courses were again opened (Swiss influence on Russian youth was feared).

  55. In the meantime the "Society" gave domestic economy courses and courses of instruction to adults (in its girls' high school).

  56. However, since the lack of doctors is very marked on the vast Russian plains, the government in 1872 opened special courses for women medical students in St. Petersburg.

  57. The section also gives courses on the care of children, and provides for the care of women in confinement.

  58. Many county councils have established courses in gardening, to which women are admitted.

  59. Perhaps you understand the compass, and lay down the water-courses and mountains of the wilderness on paper, in order that they who follow may find places by their given names?

  60. A second charge was ordered; but it was not pushed home, the country being of extraordinary difficulty for cavalry, owing to the water-courses which cut it up.

  61. Behind the northern hill, where the country is cut up by water-courses and canals between the river and the slopes, the Afghans made their last stand.

  62. The guns shelled the enemy, but the water-courses prevented our cavalry from being of any service.

  63. Its walls were perhaps twenty feet high and built of rough stones plastered together with mud and interspersed with courses of timber.

  64. At the first beginning, he breathed out oaths and exclamations against Raleigh, calling him Villain and Traitor; saying he had never entered into these courses but by his instigation, and that he would never let him alone.

  65. Should not courses be added to the college curriculum to give women the fundamental principles in other professions, or lines of industry or commerce, than teaching?

  66. There was hardly a home in early New England that didn't give a large number of technical courses in which men and women were always teaching by doing, and the boys and girls were always learning by imitating.

  67. Shorthand and Typewriting are required in both years, and a few hours a week are reserved in each year for elective courses to be chosen by the pupil among offerings in French, German, Spanish, and History.

  68. These latter courses were not, strictly speaking, "technical.

  69. In addition to the lectures open to undergraduates, courses will be organized for graduate students only, conducted with special reference to preparation for the headship and superintendence of schools.

  70. We forbear to dilate on the courses of instruction which that department offered.

  71. This gave him a few Business courses in the College of Commerce in addition to his regular Technique courses in the College of Engineering.


  72. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "courses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    curse; flowers; period