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Example sentences for "determine the"

  • It will be for the Congress for which these elections were held to make such examinations into their conduct as may be appropriate to determine the validity of the claims of members to their seats.

  • He reckoned, if it should accept his offers, to determine the Turks to retreat and to effect a peace which, by bringing the imperial crown into his house, would have been the death-stroke for Austria.

  • In the first part of its course, where the river flows from east to west, it forms that celebrated bifurcation so often disputed by geographers, of which I was the first enabled to determine the situation by astronomical observations.

  • From the 30th of April to the 11th of May, I had not been able to see any star in the meridian so as to determine the latitude of places.

  • Groups of hills, high enough to determine the course of the waters, close this basin on the east and west like transverse dykes.

  • To determine the difference of longitude between the landing-place and the point where we were to enter the Rio Negro, I took by the compass the course of the Cano Pimichin, and noted the time during which we followed the same direction.

  • A special regulation will be promulgated by the Sublime Porte to determine the mode of action of the local police in the several cases provided heretofore.

  • The next step was, to determine the proportion in which the road was injured, by the effect of the horses' feet compared with that of the wheels.

  • Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines.

  • They are especially significant because they determine the size of the social group.

  • Thus the character of the bordering sea may help to determine the accessibility of the coast from the land side.

  • This deposit was covered up with sand, and on this sand were the remains of moss, sufficiently perfect to determine the kind.

  • Now one of the means that scientists use to determine the races of men is a comparison of skulls, measured in a systematic manner.

  • So, to determine the race, we will examine the people living in such regions, and see if there are any that physically conform to what is already known of the Neolithic people, and so entitled to claim a relationship by descent.

  • It may here be mentioned that it was comparatively easy to determine the latitude of a ship at sea every day when the sun was visible.

  • It therefore became possible accurately to determine the position of a ship at sea as regarded its latitude.

  • We have wandered somewhat from the path of our discussion, but it was necessary in order to determine the significance of those references to the Old Testament with which the New Testament abounds.

  • As to the name of the writer we are wholly ignorant, and it is not easy to determine the date at which he wrote.

  • A question which, I think, needs no answer: and they who can make a question of it must suppose one will to determine the acts of another, and another to determine that, and so on in infinitum.

  • When it is desired to determine the action of fluorine upon a solid substance, the following method of procedure is adopted.

  • Experiments to determine the action of lime upon soils apparently prove that it does not matter in what form calcic salts are employed; their effect, in all cases, is to increase the yield of roots to the acre.

  • In sugar refining it is frequently desirable to determine the viscosity of sirups, molasses, etc.

  • Attempts to determine the centre of gravity of the volume of the lands upheaved above the level p 21 of the sea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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