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Example sentences for "instruction"

Lexicographically close words:
instructe; instructed; instructer; instructeth; instructing; instructional; instructions; instructive; instructively; instructiveness
  1. The will is in the safe, the letter of instruction at the lawyer's.

  2. The will has been read, but there is a sealed packet of instruction for Floyd, still in the lawyer's hands.

  3. The instruction is given in either case; and it is the instruction with which we are concerned.

  4. But since these things had been mixed up together, the instruction part, however unnecessary, should certainly be carried out in a workmanlike fashion.

  5. Hence the hour of instruction was largely taken up with confused sound and fury.

  6. When Samson opened his eyes and awoke to the state of the case, he found himself wholly without a single scholar to whom instruction could be given.

  7. This is equivalent to saying that Hunker Court became again an exceedingly lively place of instruction and amusement on a Sabbath afternoon.

  8. The council of public instruction at Constantinople has established a medical and polytechnic school; in both, French, English, and German teachers are employed.

  9. There is ground for believing that Soleri, who was married in Vercelli, and who lived in Casale, had a share in the instruction of the celebrated Caccia, surnamed Il Moncalvo, who gave to Monferrato its brightest days of art.

  10. He had studied design among the Florentines, the best masters in Italy; and he composed for the instruction of youth a small treatise, entitled Diffinizione o sia Divisione della Pittura, which he published in 1607.

  11. He was the intimate friend of Cambiaso, whose life he wrote; and to him he committed the instruction of his son Cesare.

  12. Peruzzini, of Ancona, a scholar of Simon da Pesaro, was also patronised by the court, and was created a cavalier, and contributed by his lectures to the instruction of youth.

  13. His design is not very correct, nor sufficiently select; we there see a naturalist who follows neither Sorri nor any other master; but one who, after the example of that ancient master, derives instruction from the multitude.

  14. He accordingly took Robert from his labors as under viewer in the West Moor Pit, and in October, 1822, sent him for a short course of instruction to the Edinburg University.

  15. By this instrument he left to trustees the sum which has been named, the interest of which should be expended for maintaining free public lectures for the instruction of any who should choose to attend.

  16. If you be to converse with the ignorant and ungodly, turn your discourse into a compassionate way of instruction or exhortation.

  17. Ancient people, whose words should be grave and wise, and full of instruction to suppress the levity of youth; childhood and youth is vanity; but age should not be so.

  18. The Mother's Catechism;" designed for the instruction of children, and for the assistance of mothers in discharging their duty in that respect.

  19. When called by the voice of his brethren to expound the Word in public assemblies, he gladly embraced all opportunities for further instruction out of Holy Scripture and of witness to God.

  20. Meanwhile he went on with his daily search into the Word, where he found instruction so rich, and encouragement so timely, that the Scriptures seemed written for his special use--to convey messages to him from above.

  21. Their short stay in each place made them unable to lead on new converts to higher attainments in knowledge and grace, and there seemed to be a call for some instruction fitted to confirm these new believers in the life of obedience.

  22. Andrew Downing's education was largely acquired from self instruction although he attended the schools of his native town and the academy in the adjoining village of Montgomery.

  23. The Pennsylvania College is similarly occupied, and the instruction of its students is neglected for the present.

  24. These works indicate that the instruction in the law was improving.

  25. But the fidelis experimentator has considered that the eagle, and the stag, and the serpent, and the phoenix prolong life, and renew their youth, and knows that these things are given to brutes for the instruction of men.

  26. Evidently, however, the method of grammatical instruction had to vary with the needs of the learners and the teachers' skill.

  27. The soul needs instruction and guidance; and God in creating the world for man surely had in view his most important interests, which were not those of his mortal body, but those of his soul.

  28. The persons who came for legal instruction were not boys getting their first education in the Arts.

  29. So whenever educated mediaeval men were drawn by the ambitions or moved by the finer joys of human life, it lay in their path to seek instruction or satisfaction from some antique source.

  30. Friends quickly brought this about, the old man being miserly and yet desirous of instruction for his niece.

  31. But a brief reference to the successive incidents and topics of instruction will show how the Commedia touches every key of saving doctrine.

  32. Yet with the most serene king there is call for exhortation rather than threat, for advice rather than command, for instruction rather than the rod.

  33. So there was none in the elementary logical instruction of the schools before the twelfth century at least.

  34. Scattered information touching all the early mediaeval periods shows that there was no time when instruction in Roman law could not be obtained somewhere in western Europe.

  35. During the war against Napoleon he sought refuge in Kunersdorf with the Itzenplitz family, where he occupied his time with botany and the instruction of young Itzenplitz.

  36. Jules Simon, who was Minister of Public Instruction in 1872.

  37. It has only been in modern times that the progress made by the Anglo-Saxon and German nations has placed, at all events, primary instruction in France somewhat in the rear of other countries.

  38. Jules Simon retired from his post as Minister of Public Instruction under M.

  39. Under Louis Philippe the question of gratuitous instruction and compulsory attendance got no farther, notwithstanding the fact of such men being in power as Victor Cousin, Villemain and Guizot.

  40. As has been shown, the progress made in the system of secondary instruction in France is but slow: indeed, it may be compared to that of certain pilgrims, who in fulfillment of their vows take three steps forward and two backward.

  41. Sainte-Barbe, the most celebrated of the free colleges of Paris, sends its pupils to the course of instruction at the Lycee Descartes.

  42. It is here that young men speaking the English language are specially educated for the priesthood, the whole of the instruction being given in English and the management being in the hands of British and Irish ecclesiastics.

  43. Secondary education in France is now composed of two branches of instruction mingled, which if separated might, according to M.

  44. The instruction of the upper classes was at that time in the hands of religious societies or congregations.

  45. Their plan of instruction is the same as that adopted in the secular primary schools, except that religious instruction and exercises of course play a larger part with them than with their lay brethren.

  46. His Lordship, it seems, "has no Instruction on that Subject.

  47. I will add that your Letters will certainly be profitable to me; for I shall gain that Intelligence and Instruction from them which will enable me the better to serve the Publick in the Station I am placed in here.

  48. Then he quotes Origen: "Several come to church only on solemn festivals, and then not so much for instruction as diversion.

  49. Items of Instruction Concerning the Consecration of Property.

  50. Many opened their houses to us, in order that we might have an opportunity of meeting with our friends for the purpose of instruction and explanation.

  51. No; for when men receive their instruction from Him that made them, they know how he will save them.

  52. This class, to the number of about sixty, met for instruction once a week.

  53. Later used for instruction ship because of high factors of safety.

  54. The plan was this: He proposed that he be given instruction in secret service work and then be returned to America, where he would pose as a loyal American, get in the army, and serve as an under cover man for Germany.

  55. The rites he performs give all the instruction of admonition that is useful at that moment, and this instruction does not disturb our individual devotion.

  56. This instruction and training is received by the Catholic almost with his mother's milk.

  57. These have the additional advantage of speaking out, as it were, a whole instruction at a glance.

  58. You forget, Hester, that every individual that is born into the world is born ignorant and helpless; and yet every individual must realize instruction ere ignorance can be banished.

  59. A certain amount of instruction is even necessary to understand the conventional meaning of many.

  60. Public instruction is in the worst state.

  61. For let it be known that no such instruction can possibly be given unless these certain conditions are complied with, and rigorously carried out during the years of study.

  62. He was then sent back to Italy, with a detailed instruction from Louvois,[40] upon the manner of executing the articles of the treaty.

  63. Pomponne: an instruction which was given to the aforesaid Lestang, when he left the Court: the full power given to M.

  64. Asfeld, who goes to Venice, for an affair which he will communicate to you himself, and of which you will have had, before his arrival, a more particular instruction by my letters.

  65. The performance only showed how thorough had been her instruction in solfeggio at the Conservatory.

  66. He was a famous teacher and pupils gladly paid him twenty francs an hour for instruction on the violin.

  67. They were thankful and would be delighted to place her under his instruction if they could go too, and be near her all the time.

  68. And then she went home, well pleased that the master had approved of the method of instruction she had pursued.

  69. If she then exhibited merely a talent for the art, the instruction could be dropped and no harm or serious loss of time would come from it.

  70. She could not have instruction from others.

  71. Paris offered the only field for instruction and Paris meant a very great deal of money.

  72. Massart too, gave his consent and said he would resume her instruction without charge when she returned.

  73. If, when the year's instruction was finished, the child really showed a decided genius for the violin it might be well to talk about Paris.

  74. She had the advantage of Massart's private instruction three times a week and exhibited an aptitude for the work that advanced her quickly to the head of the class.

  75. The normal and preparatory departments of the university were opened on the first of May, under the instruction of Rev.

  76. The work of the Army consists of study and practice, instruction and drill.

  77. The instruction given at the universities, moreover, reacted upon the lower schools, raising their standard and supplying them with competent teachers.

  78. He used to visit them in their own apartment when he had any leisure, inquire as to their progress, and like a second Tobias, give them excellent instruction .

  79. In order to acquire instruction the student must abstain from pleasure and not allow himself to be hampered by material cares.

  80. Even after the efforts of the Twelfth Century, instruction remained a luxury for the common people; it was the privilege of the ecclesiastics and even they did not carry it very far.

  81. A papal instruction of 1335 required every Benedictine and Augustinian community to send boys to the universities in the proportion of one in twenty of their residents.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instruction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplishment; account; acquaintance; acquisition; admonition; advice; advocacy; announcement; assignment; attainment; bidding; briefing; bulletin; caution; caveat; charge; command; commission; communication; communique; consultation; counsel; data; datum; decree; dictate; direction; directive; directory; discipline; discourse; dispatch; doctrine; dope; edification; education; enlightenment; evidence; exercise; exhortation; exposition; facts; goods; guidance; guidebook; harangue; homework; homily; idea; illumination; info; information; injunction; instruction; intelligence; know; knowledge; learning; lecture; lesson; light; mention; message; monition; moral; morality; notice; notification; opinion; order; orientation; parley; pedagogy; precept; preparation; prescript; prescription; presentation; proof; proposal; publication; publicity; recital; recitation; regulation; release; remonstrance; report; rule; schooling; scoop; sermon; sidelight; sophistication; statement; suggestion; talk; task; teach; teaching; thought; training; transmission; tuition; tutelage; tutorship; warning; word


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    instruction publique; instructions were