It is from that time a system of wickedness, in which bad ends are promoted by bad means, and one crime operates in subordination to another.
M-- operates in a state of trance; but there are other noted psychometers, such as Mme.
It operates at once as a drawback upon the commercial prosperity of the country, and as a potent incentive to fraudulent practices.
There is another consideration, which, with most men of the Prairies, operates seriously against their reconciliation to the habits of civilized life.
If any cause operates to add or remove electrons at one point there is an immediate diffusion of electrons to re-establish equilibrium, and this electronic movement constitutes an electric current.
Plans for an elaborate system of state railways failed, and the state now owns and operates only 1,700 miles, mainly, in the southwest.
Belgium controls and operates all her lines, but as the latter are short and the area of the state small, there are no difficulties in the way of excellent management.
Sympathy probably operates more or less in the mind of each individual of the human family.
How either of these laws operates we are not permitted to know, but we can as safely infer the one as the other, from what is open to our observation.
We find, then, that in the animal kingdom there is a perfectly clear and pronounced division between the modes in which the reproductive system is constructed and by which it operates in the continuation of the species.
This we should expect to be the case after we have learned the great fact that Nature operates upon a uniform principle up to the point where variations and departures are to supervene.
He says, namely, that the determination of value by labor-time holds good for commodities “only as can be increased in quantity by the exertion of human industry, and on the production of which competition operates without restraint.
The token of value operates only in so far as it represents the price of one commodity as against that of another within the sphere of circulation, or in so far as it represents gold to every owner of commodities.
He would have seen, that it was affirmed, on the one side, that the strongest motive operates to produce a choice; and that this was denied on the other.
Now this cause is motive, the strongest motive; for this is that which operates to induce a choice.
If there be any meaning in words, or any truth in the definition of the Edwardses, then to say that one thing operates to produce another, is to say that it is its efficient cause.
There are other countries, such as Egypt, India and Algeria, where the law of Islam operates side by side with other legal systems.
There are certain formal preliminaries to a valid marriage in England, such as the publication of banns, or the procurement of a common or special license which operates as a dispensation with the banns.
And it does seem as though this principle, if it operates in nature at all, offers a ready and simple explanation of all such secondary variations.
Sexual selection operates only on individuals that are already capable of reproduction, and does so only in relation to the attainment of reproduction.
The municipality owns and operates its water-works.
The municipality owns and operates its electric-lighting plant.
The governor operates either to admit gas wholly, or to cut it off completely, so that the variation in power is obtained by varying the number of the explosions.
The municipality owns and operates the water-works; the water-supply comes from a spring 2 m.
Another large continental gas engine, known as the Oechelhauser, operates on a modified Clerk cycle and is shown in sectional plan at fig.
The company that operates those cars prefers to discriminate--and it does discriminate.
It operates the entire sleeping-car service and by far the larger part of the parlor-car service on all but half a dozen of the railroads of the United States and Canada, with a goodly sprinkling of routes south into Mexico.
It operates in every National court and in every State court.
The Senate will perceive that this Act operates not only in the National but in the State jurisdiction.
Before showing how this fixity is established in human transactions, in which it is little thought of, let us first of all see how it operates in a transaction of which it is the special object.
Of all these circumstances, that which operates in the greatest number of cases is the inequality of instruction.
After all, it appears to me that Political Economy has discharged her duty when she has proved that the great and just law of the /mutuality of services/ operates harmoniously, so long as human progress is not conclusively arrested.
I fancy that the jingle of the bells operates as a stimulant.
It operates on a steam pressure of 90 pounds per square inch, and it is reported that the original did likewise.
When these two attributes are conjoined; when profuse active vigor operates on a field that has an unceasing charm for the mind, we then see human nature surpassing itself.
In its turn each tool operates on the work in its forward traverse; it then retires while the turret automatically moves through one-eighth of a circle, when the next tool emerges for its task, and so on.
On the other hand, the free intercourse with his cotemporariesoperates most favourably.
By a less harsh application of the same principle, the Bank of England operates upon its reserve by lowering or raising its rate of discount, and thus encouraging or discouraging applications for loans.
Elasticity of quality, on the other hand, operates with a gold cover always above the 40 per cent.
In substantially his own words the Chicago examiner operates under the following conditions: The examinations extend to all the associated banks of Chicago and to all non-member institutions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
