And the chairman of the committee was instituting a forcible exchange of hats with him, to his manifest disadvantage, for he had just bought him a new beaver.
So you will not think I mean to speak lightly of old friendships, because we cannot help instituting comparisons between our present and former selves by the aid of those who were what we were, but are not what we are.
This being the "incentive" to action, it followed that the office of reason is only to enlighten the search for good or gain by instituting a more exact calculus of profit and loss.
To succeed he must find some positive interest or line of action which will inhibit the drinking series and which by instituting another course of action will bring him to his desired end.
Such as they were, they would be got only by first fighting with desperate ruffians who would rather be killed than taken, and by then instituting a proceeding and obtaining a judgment in a Court of Admiralty.
But in instituting the National Government an entirely different principle was adopted and pursued.
Accordingly, on arriving again at the Golden House, we lost no time in instituting a thorough inquiry into the state of the public finances.
Hence it bears no comparison with the words used by Christ in instituting the Blessed Eucharist.
We have seen them enter upon this undertaking without forming any political bond of a national character, and without instituting any proper national agency.
States on whom they are raised in the general account of revenues and expense; instituting admiralty courts, &c.
My creditors, who had been appeased by the anticipation of the expected harvest, lost faith in my talents, and now counted solely on obtaining bodily possession of me, which they endeavoured to do by speedily instituting legal proceedings.
As soon as he saw me, he felt he must immediately make an appeal to me to use my influence against Rockel, who, accompanied by ordnance officers of the revolutionary party, was instituting a search for guns in this quarter.
The people of the world are soon to receive an object lesson in the stupendous kindergarten we are instituting for their benefit.
The same house will possess the sole right of instituting impeachments: is not this a complete counterbalance to that of determining them?
The honour of instituting this form of charity in Christendom belongs to Spain.
In the following years he spent much time and money in rebuilding Windsor Castle, and instituting the order of the Garter, which he did in order to fulfil a vow that he had taken to restore the Round Table of Arthur.
Thinking is the process of instituting these mutual references; of building up the various scattered and independent building-stones into the coherent system of thought.
To judge value is to engage ininstituting a determinate value where none is given.
Physical knowledge started on a secure career when men had courage to start from the irregular scene and to treat the suggestions to which it gave rise as methods for institutingnew observations and experiences.
And there is very solid ground for instituting the comparison: the sensations, images, etc.
This is one of God's chief ends in instituting marriage, that Christ and his church, under a figure, might be wherever there is a couple that believe through grace.
One of God's ends in instituting marriage is, that, under a figure, Christ and His church should be set forth.
Doth not God, by instituting of a day unto holy duties, make great proof how the hearts and inclinations of poor people do stand to holiness of heart, and a conversation in holy duties?
Lascelles to be conveyed thither by force; and the most astute Bow Street agents were employed in instituting enquiries in every part of the metropolis with a view to find out the dwelling of the individual in question.
Most of the needs set forth in the preceding paragraph can clearly be met in a fair degree by instituting the procedures indicated.
Just at present it is of the utmost importance to secure more trustworthy statistics in order that we may intelligently go about instituting suitable restrictive measures for undesirable human strains.
The greatest obstacle to the tithe system is the difficulty of instituting an efficient method of collection.
But there were other technical as well as practical disadvantages in instituting an appeal from these commissions.
M58 The motive for instituting the eight years' cycle was religious, not practical or scientific.
The vicar prefaced his suggestion by expressing a strong opinion against instituting any further search after Mrs. Jazeph.
Lynceus, too, mentions the fig-trees which grow in Rhodes, in his Epistles; instituting a comparison between the best of the Athenian kinds and the Rhodian species.
You will probably find your friend there eating his dinner and thinking about instituting a search for you.
Screw & Matchem, with a view to instituting inquiries regarding the yacht they had advertised for hire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instituting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
