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Example sentences for "given the"

  • In Illinois members of the lower house of the state legislature have long been chosen as follows: Each state senatorial district is given the right to elect three assemblymen.

  • Second, important consideration is given the demands of justice or equity in the particular case in hand, regardless of precedent.

  • Were He to pronounce water to be wine or heaven to be earth or light to be fire, He speaketh the truth and no doubt would there be about it; and unto no one is given the right to question His authority or to say why or wherefore.

  • To none is given the right to protest against anyone concerning that which hath befallen the Cause of God.

  • Unto no one is given the right to deviate from the laws and ordinances of God.

  • The means of the government are at present insufficient to educate all of the eight hundred thousand children who, it is believed, would attend school voluntarily if given the opportunity.

  • Tribes like the Mandayas would, if given the opportunity, advance as rapidly as have the Bukidnons, but such opportunity has not been given to them to any considerable extent.

  • Woolen garments effectually absorb the perspiration and should be given the preference.

  • On this account, throughout the period of pregnancy particular care should be given the teeth.

  • Traveling by boat is less tiresome than traveling by rail and, if equally convenient, the boat should be given the preference.

  • This skill is however always more quickly acquired, when a rule like the following is given the apprentice at the beginning of his training.

  • Their arrival was the occasion of another joyful meeting on the part of the colored people who came to see the "suptender, and express their great joy over the new start that was to be given the school.

  • The secret of this unflagging and ever increasing interest, is found in the large place, given the Bible in all her teaching work.

  • The Mormon communities resounded with fervent praises to God that He had, through His servant, Apostle Smoot, given the opportunity to His living oracles to speak to an unrighteous people!

  • We must be set free to perform our duty to the country solely as citizens of the country, before we could expect to be given the right to perform it at all.

  • The election of two Republican Senators from Utah had given the Republicans a scant majority of the members of the Upper House, and the bills that I had fought in the Lower House were now before the Senate.

  • One member of the family is given the privilege of thinking of some specific object anywhere in the universe.

  • You Know Me One of the group is given the privilege of starting the game by assuming he is some well known character, and makes the statement, "I am the man who invented the lightning rod".

  • Come-She-Come One member of the group is given the opportunity to select some object in plain sight in the room, to be guessed by the others.

  • The one first guessing Benjamin Franklin is given the opportunity of continuing the game by assuming he is some other prominent character.

  • I See Red One pupil is given the privilege of thinking of some object in the room, of which he discloses the color to the rest of the pupils.

  • Making out the total cost of a cake, a loaf of bread, a jar of fruit, or a number of sandwiches, given the cost of the main materials and fuel used.

  • Extra heat may be given the food, after it is put in the cooker, by placing heated stone plates above and below the dish that contains the food.

  • Making out the total weekly or monthly expenses of a household, given the items of meat, groceries, fuel, gas, etc.

  • They are then ready to be given the responsibility of managing any ordinary range.

  • To you, men and women of this Trust-ridden community, is given the opportunity to reap the full benefit of to-day's atonement.

  • Choose some one to be your leader and let him direct you until to each of you is given the opportunity to vote for the laws that you may desire.

  • They foresee that the crucial test is to be given the Institution of Popular Government and they wisely align themselves on the side of the people.

  • At length the hour arrives in which the men are to be given the names of the transgressors.

  • John Tullis, if given the opportunity, can sweep the city clear of them.

  • St. Petersburg and Berlin were not to be given the opportunity to gobble up these extremely fine securities.

  • You will not deprive--" "In time they will be given the choice of serving me as policemen or serving the world as examples of folly.

  • Last year the Grand Duke Paulus volunteered to provide the money for the construction of the line from Edelweiss north to Balak on condition that Russia be given the right to use the line in connection with her own roads to the Orient.

  • And as I look back, Mr. Hodder, what occurred seems to me absolutely inevitable, given the ingredients, as inevitable as a chemical process.

  • I'm afraid it's given the child a taste for--for self-adornment.

  • The waters stored for ages in the four great lakes, given the opportunity, rush over Niagara Falls into Ontario.

  • And then to cap the climax, to make the attitude of the rebels even more ridiculous in the minds of thinking people, Mr. Ridout is given the floor.

  • At school the child is given the habit of perseverance.

  • In school he is given the habit of application; that is, of keeping his attention fixed on one subject.

  • At school the child is given the habit of orderliness.

  • The only question was whether the victims of the catastrophe would suffer in silence or would cry aloud; and the answer to that question, given the characters of the victims, could easily be predicted.

  • The fear of impending pecuniary embarrassment may sometimes have given the sound of revelry a hollow ring.

  • This is one case where an unsuitable gift is inexcusable for ample opportunity has been given the donor to study the needs and desires of the hostess.

  • If there is a guest of honor, or a lady whom the hostess wishes to show deference to, she is given the place to the right of the hostess.

  • Simple entertainments, given the spirit of good fellowship and hospitality, are always appreciated and tend to substantially strengthen friendships.

  • It was plain to the members of the Constitutional Convention that hopeless confusion would arise if the States should also be given the right to coin money, pass ex post facto laws, etc.

  • The President is given the power to direct the further extension of the "classified service," that is, those positions that are to be filled by persons who have passed the best examinations.

  • A ship of the first class is given the name of a State; one of the second class that of a principal city or river, and the names for ships of the third class are selected by the President.

  • Given the axes of a conic in position, and also a tangent with its point of contact, to construct the foci and determine the length of the axes.

  • Given the axis of a parabola and a tangent, with its point of contact, to find the focus.

  • Given the tangent at the vertex of a parabola, and two other tangents, to find the focus.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "given the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bring thee; came nigh; dark forest; fine flavor; foure dayes; given area; given away; given back; given effect; given from; given internally; given length; given number; given over; given period; given place; given state; given substance; given the; given them; given three; given time; given twice; given weight; given year; what seemed