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Example sentences for "optation"

Lexicographically close words:
oppugn; opre; opry; opsonic; opsonin; optative; opted; opteryx; optic; optical
  1. It was to consist of thirty persons, and the number was to be maintained by co-optation into the places of deceased members.

  2. The dangerous right of co-optation was quietly withdrawn, till the members in the end owed their appointment to the sacerdotal chief of the State.

  3. The society is to be limited to sixty members, and the place of each member, on his decease, is to be filled by the co-optation of his son.

  4. In addition to the councillors created by purely popular election, a certain number of aldermen, not to exceed one-fourth of the whole body are chosen by co-optation among the Councillors themselves.

  5. It is hardly necessary for me to add that this co-optation is limited to a very narrow field of operation.

  6. The co-optation of officials is merely a co-optation by elimination.

  7. In fact it is co-optation pure and simple.

  8. All that they can do is that, in the event of a vacancy occurring among the members, they have power by co-optation to fill up the vacancy.

  9. But Lord Randolph Churchill's election by co-optation to a seat upon that body in 1882 had led to an unprecedented division of opinion.


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