Such a thing would be "grievous and ruinous," they said, and would involve delays and great expense.
Many of the stockholders thought it a mistake to involve the Company in the political and religious struggle which was convulsing the nation.
Suddenly shut closely in by four stone walls, he was obliged to wait the slow approach of an ignominious death--a death which would involve the ruin of his family, and the immediate disgrace of his name.
Meanwhile the Indians were pursuing Ferdinando with deer-dogs, and the woods sounded with their shouts; nor could the old man stay them, though he called out as loudly as he could the sad consequences in which they would involve him.
The fatefulness of the tale is true to tragic reality, in which the far results of an ill deed involve the innocent with the guilty.
While not issuing from argument, this assurance may be informed with reason andinvolve the total sum of conclusions which the reasoner has drawn from life.
In a few cases our figures willinvolve a small element of conjecture.
That entry seems toinvolve an equation which can only be solved if 1 virgate = 10 acres.
There are at the least twenty sums set before us which involve the equation: 1H.
We doubt whether there are two sums which involve any one other equation.
The definition of a burgess may involve the possession of a house within or hard by the walls; but the burgesses do not coalesce as being the tenants or the men of one lord; and yet coalesce they will.
Per curiam: The questions raised in these cases are of vast importance and involve far-reaching results.
But I except two matters, and I do so to avoid misapprehension; and I feel free to do so because both involve the administration of the copyright office.
His subjects were impatient of the long continuance of his life and reign: yet all who were capable of reflection apprehended the moment of his death, which might involve the capital in tumult, and the empire in civil war.
That would involve hard fighting and stirring scenes not far ahead.
But evil tempers must express themselves at times, and Judas had craft enough to involve the rest in his misconduct.
But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat's crew being assigned to that boat.
What does Kant mean when he pretends to have demonstrated that the conception of a thing which can exist of itself as subject, but not as mere attribute, does not involve any objective reality?
It does not seem to solve the difficulty to say that the realities denied involve imperfection, and are, consequently, repugnant to God.
Those things only are intrinsically impossible which involve the being and the not-being of the same thing; wherefore they are styled contradictory.
All the objects which we know, whether indeterminately or intuitively, may be affirmed of God, provided they involve no contradiction.
The identity of essence with existence does not involve the necessity of finite things.
The intelligence of God is infinite; and he cannot understand more than he now understands; all progress would suppose imperfection, because it would involve a change from a less to a greater intelligence.
The essence of the necessary being must contain existence; its idea must involve the idea of existence, not only logical and conceptual, but also realized.
Geometrical ideas, properly so called, as distinguished from sensible representations, are not simple ideas, since they necessarily involve the ideas of relation and number.
Does the character of finite, which is met with in all created beings, involve a determinate limit beyond which they cannot pass?
The ideas of identity and unity are simple, those of distinction and number composite; the former involve no negation, the latter imply a negative judgment; "this is not that.
Does the union of the idea of number with the idea of the absolute negation of limit, involve any contradiction which prevents the realization of the conception?
All else contained in them pertains to mere experience, to the order of contingent facts, which involve no necessity, and cannot strictly be the objects of science.
She might prove a failure, and in doing so, involve that of a far greater and a far more important experiment.
Wherever these act upon life, or in any way affect it, they invariably involve it in hostile opposition and sectarian animosity.
As such, it is calculated to involve us in innumerable difficulties.
Only in such a case the question to be agitated would not involve the mere expression, but rather the meaning which is associated with it.
Such a censure, however, does not involve any thing of personal vituperation.
This, however, does not involve any reproach or censure against man's love and enthusiasm, as though they were unreal and founded on an untruth.
And yet these are merely private judgments, which involve an assenting feeling in the individual, but beyond that can not pretend to any valid authority.
The phenomena of the present, therefore, demand our most careful consideration, lest any negligence in this case should inevitably involve us in disaster, and bring on us a natural historical retribution.
It would involve a disclosure of all the most solemn and sacred memories of her life.
He thought, also, that to tell his real name might involve a troublesome explanation, which was not desirable, especially since there was no need for it.
My deciphering was such that it seemed to involve my father in a very heavy charge.
But if she began to seek after Hilda it would be necessary to tell her true name, at least to Obed Chute, and all about her, a thing which would involve the disclosure of all her secret.
By nature she was of an even temper, more willing to be pleased than ruffled, very ready to do a good-natured action, provided it did not cost her much exertion, nor involve expense to Theobald.
All preparations were now completed except to appoint one of their number to apply the torch, an operation which would probably involve certain death.
Ruth never urged any request that might involve serious hazard to her husband, and for many months the latter had even ceased to speak on the subject.
This moderate heat does not necessarily produce the cooked taste nor, as we shall see, does it involve an expense which need raise the price.
I have no morbid curiosity concerning your affairs, but this thing would involve me almost as much as yourself, by its very nature.
If among the cigars still remaining untouched there were others similarly poisoned, the case might involve a set of facts quite different from those which reason would adduce if the one cigar only had been loaded.
We cannot positively say that the felling of the woods in a given vegetable province would involve the final extinction of the smaller plants which are found only within their precincts.
The operations of the lumberman involve other dangers to the woods besides the loss of the trees felled by him.
Nor can such a course become less right or expedient because it must perforce involveus in laborious, extensive, and prolonged examination of a vast store of varied and voluminous testimony.
It will not include therefore any notice of editions like that of Valpy, or of Bloomfield, or Alford, or Wordsworth, in which the textual treatment did not assume prominence or involve advancement in this province.
To carry out the plan of colonization may involve the acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "involve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
