One of the mysterious processes accompanying digestion, the secretion of free muriatic acid by the coats of the stomach, obtains a probable hypothetical explanation through the same law.
The other is a law which obtains “between the specific gravity of substances in the gaseous state, and the atomic weights.
In ascribing those motions to a general law which obtains between all particles of matter, and in identifying this with the law by which bodies fall to the ground.
Accordingly, a large proportion of the erroneous thinking which exists in the world proceeds on a tacit assumption, that the same order must obtain among the objects in nature which obtains among our ideas of them.
And, finally, the order of succession or of co-existence which obtains among effects necessarily depends on their causes.
We need only shut our eyes and listen to music, to have a conception of a universe with nothing in it except sounds, and ourselves hearing them: and what is easily conceived separately, easily obtains a separate name.
The movement may be traced by the change in outline of the cell and by the change in position of any granules that it may have taken in; for particles which touch the creature sink in and are surrounded; thus it obtains its food.
A plant secures its nourishment from much simpler elements than is the case with animals; for example, it obtains its carbon from the carbonic acid gas in air and water.
A saprophyte is an organism that obtainsits nutrition from dead organic matter.
A plot to assassinate Robespierre and Collot d'Herbois fails of success; the former obtains a guard for his person.
The executive directory obtains a grant of three milliards, to be at its discretion distributed among the different offices.
The French envoy at Naples demands and obtains an audience of the King.
The Duke of Orleans obtains leave to go to England.
France, and found refuge there during 64 years, obtains alms of the convention, viz.
The man who saved Collot d'Herbois from assassination, obtains a pension of 1500 livres a year.
Robespierre obtains decrees to admit the existence of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the soul; and for the establishment of decadary festivals.
Lanjuinais obtains a decree for freedom of religious worship.
The belief that Mozart selected the severer musical forms for his overture in order to prefigure the serious mood in which he approached the opera, obtains confirmation from his employment of them again at the solemn moment of trial.
And what, if such person obtains a restoration after they have been actually adjudged in order to give effect to the bequest of freedom?
But even as he speaks, the other theory gradually obtains ascendency in his mind, until it becomes strong enough to induce him to follow the spirit.
The reason lay in the demand for the London Christmas beef that had sent its stimulus all this distance--an emphatic proof of the closeness of touch that now obtains between the River Plate and the British Isles.
Within the frontiers of each perfect liberty obtains to continue existence as it is led in the country from which the immigrants came, and thus each is provided with its own churches and institutions.
The aspect of the country in the immediate neighbourhood of where the observer has taken his stand will be green in the main, although the unbroken verdure by no means obtains throughout.
It is true that, owing to the difference in the size of the two towns, Montevideo usually obtains the tail-end of a visit the most part of which has been spent in Buenos Aires.
I have so frequently laid stress upon the narrowness of the home commercial ideas in this respect that still obtains in so many quarters that I am glad to be able to quote the words of another that admirably fit the case.
The place, as a matter of fact, is an important dairy centre, from which Montevideo obtains a considerable proportion of its butter, milk, and cheese.
Though wrought out more frequently when Colonia really lived, it obtainsstill amongst the ruins.
But the character of military service is not repeated, but is "recognized and approved" in the man who obtains the emperor's forgiveness after offending him.
Hence, too, it is that some say with probability, that by entering a consecrated church oneobtains forgiveness of venial sins, just as one does by the sprinkling of holy water; alleging the words of Ps.
Therefore, he that is in mortal sin, by taking the sacrament heaps sin upon sin, rather than obtains forgiveness of his sin.
Therefore it stems that a manobtains a greater sacramental effect if he receive it from a good minister.
Therefore if no body obtains a higher place than a spirit in the order of natural bodies, then there will be no place above every spiritual creature.
No man obtains eternal life unless he be free from all guilt and debt of punishment.
That man obtains the perfect state who honours by his proper work him from whom all things have issued, and by whom this All was spread out.
By believing in Christ he at once obtains some share of a better spiritual life, and the hope of a future life which shall be perfectly holy and happy.
What is still more important than even this matter of feeling is the practical discipline which the character obtains from the occasional demand made upon the citizens to exercise, for a time and in their turn, some social function.
But let us also co-operate with the graces and favors which she obtains for us.
The holy Mass obtains for us all graces and blessings, temporal and spiritual.
The author of the usage which obtains in Thessaly was Heliodorus, bishop of Tricca in that country, under whose name it is said that erotic books are extant, entitled Ethiopica, which he composed in his youth.
In Asia Minor Basil of Cæsarea was the great promoter and organizer of the ascetic life; and his rule still obtainsthroughout the East.
This practice now frequently obtains since the world has learned to use the Gospel to conceal its malice and knavery, to adorn it with the name of a divinely appointed office.
Indeed, such excess of covetousness obtains that the public robbing and stealing, and the faithlessness and fraud, of the meanest hirelings, servants and maids everywhere can no longer be restrained.
On the Bon Matsuri, or All Souls' Day, the Japanese have a custom somewhat similar to that which obtains in Roman Catholic countries on the 2nd of November.
The Japanese idea of patriotism is something totally different to that which obtains in the West.
No foreigner has any electoral rights, but if he becomes a naturalised Japanese subject he obtains all the privileges appertaining to that position.
And although the wise man has, by so doing, to undergo hardship and work, he can still be happy, even if he therein obtains few pleasures.
But such lawful married life obtains through the observation of holidays and honorable dignity, and is not disturbed by the storm of threatening danger.
Gudrun's noble attendant, Hildeburg, by piteous entreaty obtains permission to participate in the grievous work of her royal mistress.
All the silver that Nueva-España obtains now comes from its own provinces, or is brought from the provinces of Perú.
The individual who obtains most votes is proposed to the general government as being first on the list; he who follows him in the number of votes, in the second; and the actual pedanéo [i.
This system obtains from one end of the Union to the other.
The main object of the political jurisdiction which obtains in the United States is, therefore, to deprive the ill-disposed citizen of an authority which he has used amiss, and to prevent him from ever acquiring it again.
When a nationobtains self-government it undertakes a new responsibility.
The sole important exception is in Canada, where "the church can compel by law the payment of dues by Roman Catholics, and thus obtains great privilege from, while independent of, the State.
His theoretical education, whether he has profited much by it or not, is now superseded by a more practical one, in which he obtains a most rapid proficiency.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obtains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
