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Example sentences for "economy"

Lexicographically close words:
economize; economized; economizer; economizes; economizing; ecosystem; ecrire; ecrit; ecrites; ecrits
  1. One valuable feature of the "Valor" is the schedules of incomings and outgoings of the livings, and the incidental notices contained in them, which give glimpses of the economy of the parishes.

  2. The internal economy of the mansion would require some regulation which would not improbably be borrowed from the rules which were customary in a college of priest-vicars, or chantry house of several priests.

  3. A still further economy in shipping space was projected in the plan to bone all beef at the packing plants and ship it boxed or frozen in molds and wrapped in burlap.

  4. Another important cloth economy came when the Army designers cut off the right-hand pocket of the O.

  5. The specifications were thereupon changed so that these 3-inch strips could be used as draw-strings in the barrack bags, a trifling economy apparently, yet amounting to a saving of 6 cents in the cost of each one of millions of these bags.

  6. Until the war came to America and brought to us the necessity of being provident, thrift and economy could not be called characteristic American qualities.

  7. Now, while it was important that Army supplies reached the other side in good condition, it was soon seen that of even greater importance would be the economy that might be effected in shipping space by the scientific packing of goods.

  8. Much work was done in standardizing supplies of all classes, so that quantity-production methods could be used in their fabrication, thus promoting economy and stimulating the rapidity of supply.

  9. Without going into the details of how this economy was effected, one typical instance may be cited.

  10. In no respect did the packing service effect greater space economy than in the packing of clothes for the American Expeditionary Forces.

  11. You are concerned with the environment in which tree crops must find a place in our economy and in our culture, because, as I understand it, your interest goes beyond mere economics to the full use of trees.

  12. Further than that, the TVA is fully aware that watershed protection cannot be achieved except within the economy of the region.

  13. The mighty mass of human achievement and human failure, in intellectual research, in moral endeavor, in social economy and government, lapses into order before him, and distributes itself among the provinces of determinate laws.

  14. With what consistency can the advocates of such an economy accuse its opponents of dealing lightly with sin, of deluding men into a false trust, and administering seductive flatteries to human nature?

  15. In this light He is a Being with moral preconceptions and an economy for bringing them to pass.

  16. But it is not safe to forget that those who have never known their brother-men except in the light of oppressors may have some crude notions on political economy which a milder experience might change.

  17. Such is the economy of living beings, that the very actions which are subservient to their preservation, tend to exhaust and destroy them.

  18. The courier, who used to play an important part in the economy of the old French Malle-Poste, was the most irritable man I ever saw.

  19. The whole economy of the Malle-Poste was curious.

  20. His father had but a very small fortune, and was anxious that his son should early learn that economy ensures independence, and sometimes puts it in the power of those who are not very rich to be very generous.

  21. He had been told that 'gentlemen should be above being careful and saving'; and he had unfortunately imbibed a notion that extravagance was the sign of a generous disposition, and economy of an avaricious one.

  22. He had always an eye to the comfort of the soldier as well as to economy in the expenditure of the public money.

  23. Industry has there taken place of idleness, and economy of dissipation.

  24. The danger as regards theories of political economy is the obvious one of their abstract conclusions being applied to concrete things.

  25. There has probably been as much folly uttered by political economy as against it, which is saying something.

  26. If Mill then was an original thinker in logic, metaphysics, and the science of economy and politics, it is clear that he had not learnt these from her lips.

  27. This arrangement had worked well until the time of the events now to be told, and it had the recommendation of economy in money and men when economy was more than usually imperative.

  28. But the fact remains that to-day the nation is spending 180 millions or so a year on alcohol, while the Government calls on the people to exercise the greatest economy that the war may be waged to the end.

  29. Strict economy was imperative during the days which followed and it became no uncommon occurrence for Andy P.

  30. Lamb discouraged the idea for the present on the grounds of economy and advised a sterilizing apparatus instead, which Dr.

  31. Side note: Economy of Method] The third element of good technique is Economy and Directness of Method.

  32. I think I may now say that the chief element of style is Economy of Means.

  33. I have finished Harriet Martineau's political-economy story, which I liked exceedingly.

  34. As it required great economy to make both ends meet, there seemed no possible chance of his being able to meet the note at maturity.

  35. The old man used to lecture me about economy till I got sick of hearing the word.

  36. Economy Bosnia and Herzegovina Economy - overview: Bosnia and Herzegovina ranked next to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as the poorest republic in the old Yugoslav federation.

  37. The economy is skewed and economic outcomes are distorted.

  38. Compare this to Alan Greenspan Congressional testimony this summer: "While bubbles that burst are scarcely benign, the consequences need not be catastrophic for the economy .

  39. In Macedonia, a savings bank named TAT collapsed in 1997, erasing the economy of an entire major city, Bitola.

  40. Their size and all-pervasiveness sometimes threaten the national economy and the very fabric of society and incur grave political and social costs.

  41. Political Economy begins by classifying social action under a law of Supply and Demand.

  42. Their system of life was that of domestic economy in perfection.

  43. If a clear-headed lecturer on political economy could also be appointed, perhaps in time our industrial fellow-countrymen might come to understand that strikes are always a mistake, and the masters, that fair play is a jewel.

  44. Coinciding with these practical witnesses, the theorists on political economy who were consulted on the occasion--such as Mr Babbage and Mr J.

  45. Therefore, overseers are perfectly justifiable in having recourse to all the industrious methods that sound political economy can suggest to shake off the taxation imposed upon their parishioners by improvidence and vice.

  46. They haven't no more philosophy or political economy about 'em than that," said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.

  47. There was an absent, uneasy expression in his eye as he begged her not to consult economy at the expense of her own comfort.

  48. Passive economy thinks day and night of the way to save a half-penny; active economy broods no less intently on the way to earn a dollar.

  49. On such occasions she put her economy aside, and the satisfaction she felt in finding, an opening for all her energies made her positively amiable.

  50. For each scene and season--each pleasure and place--ought to be trusted to itself in the economy of human life, and to be allowed its own proper power over our spirit.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "economy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.