How many people content themselves with speaking, and believe that it exempts them from acting!
The root of the evil is in the mistaken idea that high station exempts him who holds it from observing the common obligations of life.
The fifthexempts the clergy from paying a share in the compensation for homicide, though of kindred to the guilty person.
I was, of course, far from stating, as a general rule, that Government authority exempts all who act under it from penal consequences.
Mr. Bowles rightly maintains that the United States has not acceded to the Declaration as a whole, or to its second article, which exempts from capture enemy property in neutral ships.
Our exempts work on the forts; our rangers are few and scattered, and Colonel Harper knows not where to turn for a runner or a rifleman!
I found the lovely place almost deserted, save for a few old men of the exempts working on a sort of fort around Colonel Clyde's house, and a few women and children who had not yet gone off to Schenectady or Albany.
The term ANY OTHER HUMAN WILL exempts the sovereign himself from this restriction, who may annul his own acts, as may also his successor, who enjoys the same right, having the same power and no other.
If there be any mistake, although it may confer no right, it exempts the party from all penalties.
The name of Exempts or Exons is manifestly borrowed from that of the officers in the old French Garde du Corps, who were styled in their commissions Capitaines Exempts des Gardes du Corps.
Little was done, however, at West Point, but military companies of exempts were organized in several towns.
At this time the aged and those who ordinarily would be regarded as exempts were pressed into the service.
The law exempts only periodicals, other than newspapers, printed in Canada, and devoted exclusively to the above objects.
The lawexempts only those which come within the foregoing definitions.
In still other cases a "grandfather clause" in the state constitution exempts from the educational test all who are descendants of persons voting before the Civil War.
A pardon fully exempts the individual from the punishment imposed upon him by law; a reprieve, on the other hand, is simply a temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence.
Footnote: The Sixteenth Amendment exempts the income tax from this rule.
Oregon exempts one gun or revolver to each white citizen over sixteen years of age, in addition to the other exemptions.
As to persons earning more than seventy-five dollars per month the law exempts sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents per month and holds the balance subject to debts.
It exempts the administration of that period from the imputation of extravagance, which the unexplained exhibition of the aggregate expenditures might have drawn upon it in the minds of uninformed persons.
All modern laws admit that, at least under certain circumstances, idiocy or madness exempts a person from criminal responsibility.
And as the character of the British merchants exempts them from any suspicion of practices pernicious to the publick, why should they be restrained?
As his open defence of the present royal family in the late rebellion, exempts him from the imputation of being disaffected to the crown, the only crime with which he can be charged is disaffection to the minister.
Winder's place) reports that of the exempts and citizens taken from the streets to the front, last week, a majority have deserted.
It appears that this corps was formed almost exclusively from exempts from military service.
The Count got in without any further hesitation; and the exempts then addressed the driver who was sitting motionless on his box.
When they came out into the garden the chief of the exempts noticed the coach, which was still standing at the door.
A grave illness exempts from the saying of the canonical Hours.
A grave fear exempts from the saying of the Office.
Others hold that such recitation is both valid and licit, as the office of one day and its obligation have no bond with the office of another day, and that any reasonable cause exempts from all sin or fault (Gury, n.
Even very defective sight, although not total blindness, exempts from the obligation of saying the Office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exempts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
