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Example sentences for "increasing the"

  • During teething there is generally much torpor of the bowels; here, then, castor oil is a very appropriate and useful artificial means of increasing the frequency of the alvine discharges.

  • The dose is from five grains to ten for an infant, increasing the quantity to fifteen grains or twenty to children of nine or ten years of age.

  • In the healing of ulcers the matter is first thickened by increasing the absorption in them; and then lessened, till all the matter is absorbed, which is brought by the arteries, instead of being deposed in the ulcer.

  • Neutral salts certainly increase the smarting in making water, by increasing the acrimony of the urine.

  • He has already cabled you that he approves of increasing the delegates to the Annual Convention to 19.

  • In 1918 Michigan, South Dakota and Oklahoma fully enfranchised them, increasing the number of equal suffrage States to fifteen.

  • By increasing the number of equal suffrage States through referring a State amendment to the voters.

  • The river falling made the current in these bayous very rapid, increasing the difficulty of building and permanently fastening these bridges; but the ingenuity of the "Yankee soldier" was equal to any emergency.

  • Tom Jordan afterward was ordered to Zanesville, to take charge of that rendezvous, under the general War Department orders increasing the number of recruiting-stations.

  • On the contrary, the causes which led to the retirement of Lord Shelburne, had the effect of increasing the reputation of that ex-minister, and of endearing him to the public.

  • The scheme of increasing the number of partners in a bank by way of security was treated by opposition as visionary, since it was not on numbers, but on prudence, and their mode of conducting business, that their credit depended.

  • It is now quite evident that the financial necessities of the Government will require a modification of the tariff during your present session for the purpose of increasing the revenue.

  • In my last annual message I took occasion to recommend the immediate construction of ten small steamers of light draft, for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of the Navy.

  • I respectfully suggest to Congress the propriety of increasing the number of judicial districts in the United States to eleven (the present number being nine) and the creation of two additional judgeships.

  • Education, the groundwork of republican institutions, is encouraged by increasing the facilities to gather speedy news from all parts of the country.

  • But modern science has proved that it is in the capillaries that animal heat is generated, and it is believed that alcohol lessens instead of increasing the power of the body to bear the cold.

  • After the second year, no more pruning is needed, except to reduce the side shoots, for the purpose of increasing the fruit.

  • If a company unit is delayed while crossing an obstacle, the head slackens the pace or halts until all of that unit has passed; it then resumes its place in the column, increasing the pace, if necessary.

  • An example of increasing the depth of beaten zone is seen in Fig.

  • Such marches are generally made by increasing the number of marching hours.

  • All rushes should be made under covering fire, and when a unit rushes forward the adjoining unit or units make up for the loss of fire thus caused by increasing the rate of their fire.

  • That by broadening the blades or increasing the number of sections, the diameter of the propeller may be proportionately diminished without the sacrifice of engine power.

  • In the case of solutions, if the absorption of the solvent is negligible, the eflect of increasing the concentration of the absorbing solute is the same as that of increasing the thickness in the same ratio.

  • By using logwood alone blue blacks can be dyed, by increasing the proportion of fustic a greener tone can be obtained, while by the use of a larger proportion of Chromotrop a redder tone of black is the result.

  • By increasing the quantity of dye-stuff in proportion to the material, fine deep shades of green can be dyed.

  • Strong soap liquors have also some influence in the direction of increasing the felting, therefore soap should not be used if it can possibly be done without.

  • The bald proposition therefore is that American industries can and ought to be protected by increasing the prices of the products of such industries.

  • To illustrate the cost of protection to the consumer, consider its operation in increasing the price of two or three of the leading articles protected.

  • Not the one here suggested of increasing the manufacture of goods of finer quality, for, aside from the impracticability of the plan, this will only aggravate the difficulty by adding to the aggregate stock in the home market.

  • A tumbler of one-third milk and two-thirds good grit gruel taken three times a day will have greater influence in increasing the quantity of milk than any conceivable amount of stimulant.

  • The thirst is seldom considerable, and sometimes there is an actual aversion to drink as well as to food, apparently from its exciting or increasing the sickness.

  • Philip the Fair, his method of increasing the revenue, 216.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another manner; arrived safely; became highly; being composed; being vanquished; change horses; funeral procession; good painting; hath written; increasing efforts; increasing number; increasing the; increasingly used; knop under two branches; leading part; medical examination; mortal eyes; must allow; omne vivum; personal experiences; pleasant journey; sont point; this class; used interchangeably; usually given