This, I believe, consists in obtaining with the proper instruments the angular distance between the moon and some one of the stars.
Such a result is inevitable if the grants are made in favour of persons or Companies who cannot themselves use the land or collect its produce, but must depend for obtaining it upon the natives, who are allowed to deal only with the grantees.
All legally-established bodies have powers of obtaining money, as by rates; but the example of the independent schools and church restorations has amply proved that money will be forthcoming for proper purposes without resort to compulsion.
If they succeed in obtaining the abolition of these semi-feudal survivals, they will have conferred a substantial benefit upon the community.
Taken in this way it may safely be considered that there would be no difficulty in obtaining access to water.
Each pocket is made to take a certain size spool, the end of the thread being run through the cloth front for obtaining the length for threading a needle.
If difficulty is found in obtaining a circular piece of glass, the bottom may be made square and square glass used.
Jacques van Arteveldt succeeded inobtaining most advantageous terms for the Flemings.
Simon de Montfort, and summon these representatives to Parliament for the purpose of obtaining from them more easily grants of money.
The peasants failed in obtaining those results for which they had struggled.
The archers, like the other soldiers, were recruited from the people; and if the mass of the people were not practised in archery, there could be no hope of obtaining skilful archers.
After obtaining the promise he went back to the library, where Mary and Sir Thomas Ducaine had returned, and announced his success.
An idea had come to him which might be of service in obtaining news of Joseph.
No journalist in London had yet succeeded in obtaining an interview or a definite statement with the extraordinary being who had appeared like a thunderbolt in its midst.
But Brother Smith refused to seal him or let him be sealed, giving as his reason for refusing, that Gillespie had exercised the rights of sealing without firstobtaining orders to do so.
He had known of others obtaining wives by committing adultery and then being sealed to avoid scandal.
It was the policy of Joseph to hold the city lots in Nauvoo at a high price, so as to draw money from the rich, but not so high as to prevent the poor from obtaining homes.
The Post-Office is a very shrewdly managed department of the public service; it has brought to perfection the art of obtaining maximum results with a minimum expenditure.
Obtaining goods on false credit, and raising money on them.
When the question arose of the appointment of Catholic chaplains in the Crimea during the war, it was Manning who approached the Minister, interviewed the Permanent Secretary, and finally succeeded in obtaining all that was required.
The town was now closely surrounded, and every chance of obtaining fresh supplies was cut off.
At length it appeared that the Inopportunists were dragging out the proceedings in the hope of obtaining an indefinite postponement.
From a remote antiquity wars had been engaged in for the purpose of obtaining a supply of labour, the conqueror compelling those whom he had spared to cultivate his fields and serve him as slaves.
For ethics, in such an application, ends either in the attempt at the procurement of extreme personal sanctity or the obtaining of individual pleasure--the foundation of patriotism is sapped, the sentiment of friendship is destroyed.
Djafar may thus be considered as having solved the grand alchemical problem of obtaining gold in a potable state.
Indeed, he regarded them as living beings; obtaining an argument from the phenomena of amber and the magnet, supposed by him to possess a living soul, because they have a moving force.
A chemist reads with interest Djafar's antique method of obtaining nitric acid by distilling in a retort Cyprus vitriol, alum, and saltpetre.
Melmoth and Mr. Langton, after a short private conversation, had summoned the landlord, in the hope of obtaining some clew to the development of the mystery.
Melmoth, after each had communicated his and her intelligence, without obtaining audience of the other.
For a moment, there seemed a probability of obtaining such a reply to this observation as the youth had intended to elicit.
Actuated by the fear of a cruel death, and tormented by the infamous bishop, Atahualpa consented to be baptized, in hopes of obtaining a release from so dreadful a punishment.
We have already alluded to the intercourse which was begun between Rome and China, during the reign of Marcus Antoninus, for the purpose of obtaining silk.
Alfred even extended his views to India, whether stimulated by religious views, or by the desire of obtaining its luxuries, is uncertain; perhaps both motives operated on his mind.
From this period till the conquest, England was prevented from engaging in commerce by the constant irruption of the Danes, and by the short duration of their sovereignty after they had succeeded in obtaining it.
We have applied this remark to India exclusively, but it might be extended to almost all the names of places that occur in Ptolemy, though, as respects India, his obtaining the native appellations is more striking and useful.
France, instead of obtainingthem indirectly from the Dutch.
He succeeded in obtaining possession of this valuable island, and thus improved and enlarged the commercial advantages of Egypt.
It is advantageous indirectly, in so far as by stimulating and encouraging internal trade, it increases wealth, and with increased wealth comes the increased desire of obtaining foreign produce, and the increased means to gratify that desire.
I esteem it a fortunate occurrence, most fortunate, which brought me to East Angels this evening to pay my respects to Mistress Thorne, thus obtaining for myself, in addition, the pleasure of your acquaintance.
She could not conceive the idea at first of a person like Lucian living on with contented enjoyment, day after day, without any fortune, any hope of inheriting one, or any effort towardsobtaining one.
Mrs. Thorne, not having succeeded inobtaining "definite" information from the Rev.
A classical style, a refined tone, and an adequate acquaintance with the chief authors of Ancient Rome and of Modern France, were requisites, without which even a periodical essayist would have had small hope of obtaining a hearing.
There need be no limit assigned to the time at which a candidate would be free to qualify himself forobtaining this diploma.
The confusion at Gizeh station in obtaining our tickets and getting the donkeys into the train was something tremendous.
I am told there are large numbers who prefer any shifty mode of obtaining a living so long as they can wear a black coat and avoid honest labour.
Another form of extortion is to be found in the impossibility, in many hotels, of obtaining information as to the sailing of river-boats, departure of trains, etc.
We were shown the various processes of obtaining the gold from the quartz, and were rather surprised at the somewhat primitive character of the machinery employed.
I have obliged hardly any one; I have never learnt how people succeed in obtaining the management of a tobacco shop for those in whom they are interested.
This could only have been effected by obtaining from the Court of Rome a canonical institution, and this the Imperial Government did not care to have.
Confession is the telling of our sins to a duly authorized priest, for the purpose of obtaining forgiveness.
One of the old submarines succeeded in obtaining its objective and was blown up to the destruction of the piling of the approach to the mole.
The German Government was evidently keenly disappointed in its hopes of obtaining food supplies from this region.
When it is considered that for the five independent valuations for raising rates on property there are in England and Wales more than one thousand valuation authorities, the hopelessness of obtaining uniformity is apparent.
With all their drawbacks, and they are not few in number, these stamp duties afford a ready means of obtaining a good revenue without increasing unduly the general burdens of taxation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
