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Example sentences for "for life"

  • Again, I ask Congress to pass a juvenile crime bill that provides more prosecutors and probation officers to crack down on gangs and guns and drugs and bar violent juveniles from buying guns for life.

  • With a judge, who, being human, is also likely to err, but whose tenure is for life, there is no similar way of holding him to responsibility.

  • What is said above applies with equal force to fraternal and benevolent organizations which contract for life insurance.

  • Oswald already knew that the earl had been appointed Constable of England, for life, and now heard that the lordship of the Isle of Man had since been conferred on him.

  • I forget which of the Senators first proposed the Consulate for life; but I well recollect that Cambaceres used all his endeavours to induce those members of the Senate whom he thought he could influence to agree to that proposition.

  • It should be recollected that we were now in the year which saw the Consulship for life established, and which, consequently, gave presage of the Empire.

  • It is for life, because it is most agreeable with the inclination of mankind that friendship, esteem and love should be permanent.

  • Their persons are so superiorly charming and preferable in whatever can recommend them to be notice of mankind, that the German youth often visit Saxony in quest of companions for life.

  • If he marries the lady who cost him all this trouble and attendance, he shuts her up for life: If not, she becomes the object of his eternal hatred, and he too frequently endeavors to revenge by poison the success of his happier rival.

  • For a given order of society no doubt he was out of place--for life in general, well, he could not say.

  • Beauty," was his reply to himself, for life at bottom, in spite of all its teeming terrors, was beautiful.

  • He could not face the weight and significance of the social theory that this was for life--that if he married her today he would have to live with her all the rest of his days.

  • They are the very scum of the great cities of England--desperate men who are usually sentenced for life, and therefore have no hope of mercy; and many of them desire none.

  • I'm an Ohio boy, and just looking round the world to see how it's made afore I settle on dad's farm, and tie up for life.

  • Yes--all of you shall be provided for, for life.

  • Let me resume it then, to wear it for life.

  • I am Gunther's for life, and for death, which is the birth of immortality!

  • Neither spoke to the other; what had they to say to one another--they whom policy had chained together for life?

  • Alas, how can we part with fortitude, when our parting is for life!

  • I have not chosen lightly, and do not fear because it is for life," was its unspoken language.

  • It is for life," she whispered; "and I am but young and foolish; shall you never regret?

  • When Bonaparte was contriving the Consulship for life, and, in the Irish way, forced the Italian Republic to volunteer an offer of the Consulship of Italy, by a deputation to him at Paris, I happened to be there.

  • The Queen commands me to say that you are provided for for life; and that, on the first vacancy which may occur, she intends fixing you at Court.

  • The Queen, embracing me, exclaimed, 'That will be for life, for death alone can separate us!

  • I think it will send them to penal servitude for twenty years or for life.

  • I should think all the world must feel as if I ought to be shut up for life," said Rachel, dejectedly.

  • Colonel Keith is certainly not fond of you personally, and rather wonders at Alick, but he has never doubted that this is the genuine feeling that is for life, and that it is capable of making you both better and happier.

  • Besides, if all else fails, he may petition for pardon or for life imprisonment.

  • Some nymphs there are, too conscious of their face, For life predestined to the Gnomes' embrace.

  • If a person is convicted, the court may remove him from office, or disqualify him to hold any office in the state, for a time, or for life; or may both remove and disqualify him.

  • The less aggravated cases of murder, are in some states distinguished as murder in the second degree, and punished by imprisonment for a long term, or for life.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for another; for good; for half; for the simple reason; for whom; forbidden fruit; forced march; forcible resistance; foreign authors; foreign bills; foreign commerce; foreign devil; foreign governments; foreign matter; foreign money; foreign parentage; foreign port; foreign powers; forest life; former navigators; former note; formerly written; forty shillings; forty weeks; hold him; utter astonishment