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Example sentences for "middle course"

  • There was a middle course open to them—the retention of their position at Gundamuck; but it seems to have found no favour in their eyes.

  • It seemed to the Envoy, at this time, that there was no middle course to be pursued.

  • We are convinced that you have no middle course to pursue with safety and with honour.

  • Greek: Ariston metron]--A mean or middle course is best.

  • Happy they who 10 steadily pursue a middle course.

  • In medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course.

  • In every chapter Suarez propounds the arguments of doctors on either side of the problem, ending with his own determination, which is frequently a middle course.

  • He desires a middle course, neither to oppress nor to be oppressed: neither to command, nor to be commanded--like Otanes among the seven Persian conspirators.

  • No middle course, or neutrality, is open to you.

  • I prefer a middle course: I wish neither to rule, nor to be ruled, but to be a freeman: and I consider freedom as the best guarantee for happiness.

  • The ministers determined to adopt a middle course, and appoint a commission of inquiry.

  • As this would have been complete ruin, Pitt yielded to a middle course, and determined to request that the inquiry might be referred to a select committee.

  • The Earl of Ripon and the Duke of Richmond pursued a middle course--they wished the bill to go into committee in order to restore it to its original state; if unsuccessful there, they would vote against the third reading.

  • It was with this subject that government next dwelt, and in doing so they adopted a middle course--conceding much, but not conceding all that was required of them.

  • Moreover, there is no middle course; you must either make no demands on him at all, or else you must fashion him to perfect obedience.

  • A child has only two distinct feelings, joy and sorrow; he laughs or he cries; he knows no middle course, and he is constantly passing from one extreme to the other.

  • There is no middle course; he must rule or obey.

  • Neither speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between.

  • They nevertheless decided, on account of the Refutation, to adopt a middle course.

  • Thus they escaped from their difficulty by a middle course; and this time it was really the true one.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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