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Example sentences for "generally accepted"

  • The principles then enunciated are the generally accepted rules of the present day.

  • This position seemed to be one which could be generally accepted.

  • The rules of the Declaration of Paris have been so generally accepted in practice that there is little possibility that they will be disregarded by the civilized states of the world.

  • This is, however, by no means the only instance of a special code, divergent in certain points from the moral rules generally accepted in the community where it exists.

  • But to adopt the reckoning of longitude from zero to 360 degrees would involve a very considerable change, and I think it may be doubted whether it would be generally accepted.

  • I question, for myself, whether any other plan than that it proposes would be generally accepted.

  • He did not contribute any new ideas to that science, or introduce any noteworthy correction of the views, either as to method or doctrine, generally accepted by the dominant school of his day.

  • His life is obscure, but it is generally accepted, that in the persecution of the Pythagoreans at Crotona and Metapontum he escaped and went to Thebes, where he came under the influence of Philolaus.

  • It never succeeded in establishing itself as a generally accepted manual of love, and in the eyes of many it served to stamp the subject it dealt with as one that lies outside the limits of good morals.

  • This theory is not, however, generally accepted by Semitic scholars.

  • Northern Arabia is generally accepted as their primitive home.

  • The words "generally accepted" imply that money has a peculiar social character, is not an ordinary good.

  • In the data regarding this movement given by different authorities, many discrepancies appear, as there is no generally accepted rule by which to determine the selection of the companies to be included in the lists.

  • Socialism is a word of manifold meanings no one of which is generally accepted.

  • Money may be defined as a material means of payment and medium of trade, generally accepted as the price-good and passing from hand to hand.

  • This cannot occur without some means for recording these opinions in generally accepted terms.

  • In the fourth century this meaning was generally accepted: Macrobius, Somn.

  • This religion never formulated a coherent system of generally accepted dogmas.

  • According to a generally accepted symbol, the spirit animating man was a spark, detached from the fires shining in the ether; it partook of their divinity and so, it was believed, had descended to the earth to undergo a trial.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    barium chloride; considerable thickness; disembodied spirit; existent being; generally about; generally accepted; generally adequate; generally admitted; generally applied; generally believed; generally called; generally found; generally preferred; generally regarded; generally termed; generally understood; generally used; got him; grandmother said; larger quantity; paused again; pretty house; shall turn; sweet cousin; under command; your country