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Example sentences for "elaborate system"

  • When Italy asserted her nationality, and fought for it in 1870, Ireland sent out a brigade to fight on the side of the Pope.

  • The sick should be sent to existing Poor Law or County hospitals, strengthened by the addition of cottage hospitals in certain districts, while children must be boarded out.

  • This was framed to annul the Taff Vale decision, making the unions immune from suits for tortious acts and providing an elaborate system of arbitrating labor disputes.

  • An elaborate system of espionage was instituted, and the suspects weeded out.

  • It was during this agitation that the government established an elaborate system of labor exchanges--"Bourse du Travail.

  • An elaborate system of social castes imposed by the teachings of Brahmanism has made the introduction of western methods of education and civilization somewhat difficult to carry out.

  • Thus, by means of an elaborate system of canals, goods are transferred by water, from one river-basin to another, so that practically all the navigable streams of western Europe are connected.

  • Plans for an elaborate system of state railways failed, and the state now owns and operates only 1,700 miles, mainly, in the southwest.

  • Convicts with more than six years to serve are transported to the Andaman Islands, where the penal settlement is organized on an elaborate system, permitting ultimately self-support on a ticket of leave and even marriage.

  • In 1836 the state legislature passed a law providing for an elaborate system of public improvements, consisting largely of canals and railways.

  • Behind her invading armies stretched an elaborate system of railways through her northern provinces.

  • The last named was so called because it was an elaborate system of trenches and redoubts in an angle between two roads.

  • Companies halted one by one in Armentières to put on gum-boots, and an elaborate system of dumps had been arranged in the vicinity of Tissage Dump.

  • The men were required to complete an elaborate system of wiring in rear of the subsidiary line and in front of some pill-boxes, and also to finish other defences which were being constructed in Nouvel Houplines itself.

  • An elaborate system of flags and identification marks was also evolved.

  • It was little more at that time than a question of identity, until Paul himself developed it into an elaborate system of theology.

  • Jesus did not appear with a ready-made theology, and imposed no elaborate system of doctrine upon his disciples.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    between decks; could feel; elaborate report; elaborate system; found upon; four divisions; give instruction; good only; good right; judicial authority; lateral line; like thine; little supper; manual labour; mechanical inventions; might get; more abundant; passive voice; quite naturally; said her; totally depraved; various diseases; would endeavor