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Example sentences for "operative"

Lexicographically close words:
operation; operational; operationem; operationes; operations; operatively; operatives; operator; operators; operatur
  1. This assembly, as before stated, could neither originate public measures, nor amend such as were submitted to them; but none of a certain grade could become operative until adopted by the comitia.

  2. Since no public measure of essential importance could become operative until it received the sanction of the popular assembly, this fact alone shows that the people were sovereign, and not the council, nor the military commander.

  3. And so one grey morning his co-operative society dissolved.

  4. It is the dissolution of a co-operative society.

  5. Human Nature itself, as an operative force, has changed.

  6. The question may arise as to how I can control the sinking of the crewless consorts, holding as they would only supplies, and having none of the operative mechanisms that constitute a necessary functional part of the fighting undersea boat.

  7. Yes, it's truly pretty clear That the State feels the co-operative leaven.

  8. Lord Rosebery, at Congress of Delegates from the Co-operative Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, meeting at Glasgow.

  9. I am wearing a pair of Co-operative trousers.

  10. As to the operative words, any expression showing an intention to pass the estate is effectual.

  11. Not that a co-operative society can begin by saying absolutely what those principles in their purity would dictate.

  12. For the early history of the co-operative movement we have to look chiefly to Great Britain, and British co-operation acknowledges as its founder Robert Owen (q.

  13. Great controversy has prevailed as to the state subsidies given to co-operative credit.

  14. State help has also been given to the co-operative bank of the French workmen's productive societies.

  15. Harm has undoubtedly been done in certain cases by forcing co-operative societies, whether from political motives or merely mistaken policy.

  16. As a means they had been founding co-operative societies, which are sometimes called "union shops" to distinguish them from the later growth of societies of the Rochdale type.

  17. As to the old Norman theory that England was a conquered land, it had gradually ceased to exist as an operative force, under kings who, like Henry II.

  18. Its standards have also been upheld with varying success in great co-operative undertakings, such as the Dictionary of National Biography, the Cambridge Modern History, and Messrs Longmans' Political History of England.

  19. A better market system, co-operative selling, and education are the promising remedies.

  20. He has come forward and done valuable work in relieving famine and distress by floods, in keeping order at fairs, in helping pilgrims, and in promoting co-operative credit.

  21. The reasons that make complete responsibility at present impossible are likely to continue operative in some degree even after a decade.

  22. In other words, the new law is to be deemed to be operative for that purpose immediately.

  23. Of this pamphlet a friend told him that he saw three copies on the table in the Guards' Club, and that he heard that captains in the Guards were going to the co-operative shop in Castle Street and buying coats there.

  24. There are some to whom nothing has any real interest, or real meaning, except as operative in a given person; and it is they who best appreciate the quality of soul in literary art.

  25. These are teeth having their whole operative surfaces formed of one continuous involute curve.

  26. Heads c and d are almost invariably finished when used on operative parts of machines, as are also e and F.

  27. The lathe has an elevating slide rest self-acting feed traverse and self-acting cross feed, both feeds being operative in either direction.

  28. X is a frame or box containing and holding the operative part of the tooth, and resting on two guides C D.

  29. His joy on account of the success of the Co-operative Steel Mills could not banish his intense grief.

  30. A Co-operative Supply Bureau was organized and managed in the interests of the workmen, to furnish food, clothing, and all the necessary comforts of life at about cost prices.

  31. When these hazards become actively operative as causes, harmful results ensue.

  32. Sarcognomy is the true basis of medical practice, while anatomy is the basis only of operative surgery and obstetrics.

  33. Another scheme has been proposed by a company of Chicago Knights of Labor, who "have gone to Tennessee to found a co-operative colony.

  34. They are pioneers, these sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-operative leagues.

  35. The one thing they fear more than mail-order houses is that farmers' co-operative movements may get started.

  36. I mean they know we won't be hinting around that if we had a co-operative bank, we could get along without Stowbody.

  37. Thus the spirit and the intent of the church law to make the wife a servant of the husband, subject to and controlled by him, and engrafted in common law, is a part of statute law operative in these United States to-day.

  38. Moses is the personification of this faculty inherent in and operative from the eternal ego, the dual being, which is "the Lord" of the Bible.

  39. Even now, the United States Weather Bureau has over four thousand co-operative observers, who work without pay, who work with their hearts behind their duties.

  40. This is an official co-operative observer's station of the Weather Bureau.

  41. Instruments in shelter, as supplied to each co-operative observer.

  42. Of course, boys, it's especially important for this work that there are a number of co-operative observers, because frost is not a widespread general phenomenon.

  43. He begins his great work by examining into the permanent causes of error, as these were likely to be operative even after the reformation of science.

  44. Does an operative in a cotton-factory produce nothing but cotton goods?

  45. The principle of co-operation, spontaneous or concerted, is the basis of society, and the object of society must ever be to find the right place for its individual members in its great co-operative scheme.

  46. This was abandoned by Chapman, who published the first work in English on operative midwifery.

  47. Churchill's Researches on Operative Midwifery, and a copious analysis of his Essay on Premature Labour, in the American Journ.

  48. Professor Kilian, in his work on operative midwifery, has collected the results of no less than 161 cases of artificial premature labour.

  49. A unique feature of our business, moreover, is the Co-operative Bureau, which you will find a decided help in building up your business.

  50. When the operative was through talking, he came out and saw Ted.

  51. Yes, we will soon know," was the reply, "who is the operative in that district and whether Chicago or Milwaukee is the point to cover.

  52. Socialists are quite convinced that the whole problem would be solved were private capital to be converted into co-operative or public capital.

  53. But on the socialistic principle these factories must be owned, not by private capitalists, but by the State, or at any rate by co-operative societies of some kind.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    operative commonwealth; operative credit; operative measures; operative movement; operative societies; operative society; operative store; operative stores; operative system