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Example sentences for "holds good"

  • With regard to the same laws governing both light and heat, we shall see that this fact also holds good.

  • There are conditions under which they do not correspond to the actual truth of things; in this case the summum jus summa injuria holds good, and the infringement of the right appears morally justified.

  • A glance at the Reichstag will show how completely this conviction, which is forced on us by a study of German history, holds good to-day.

  • The law of shifting holds good, as illustrated by the constant movement of attention, even when it is "sustained", and by the alternation between two activities when we are trying to carry them both along simultaneously.

  • The reasoning processes discussed up to this point have taken their start with the particular, and have been concerned in a search for the general principle that holds good of the given particular case.

  • The law of advantage holds good, as illustrated by the fact that some distractions are harder to resist than others.

  • Man, like every other part of Nature, is objectivity of the will; therefore all that has been said holds good of him.

  • For it holds good of inward as of outward circumstances that there is for us no consolation so effective as the complete certainty of unalterable necessity.

  • In consequence of his originality, it holds good of him in the highest degree, as indeed of all true philosophers, that one can only come to know them from their own works, not from the accounts of others.

  • Law, where it rests upon contracts between equals, holds good so long as the power of the parties to the contract remains equal or similar.

  • Here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum holds good, and that with decisive force.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aid him; begin again; being unwilling; born children; could judge; great quantities; hair brush; her age; hold their; holds good; holy priesthood; make use; mere question; provided that; rose color; soft parts; stern necessity; this singular; three fathoms; tolerably well; understood only; unless perhaps