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Example sentences for "our present"

  • The details of the plan were worked out with great care and ability, and the plan in general seems to me to furnish the basis for a proper solution of our present difficulties.

  • And ingenious and novel as the proposed National Reserve Association appears, it simply is a logical outgrowth of what is best in our present system, and is, in fact, the fulfillment of that system.

  • Another witness to this fact is Ruskin, through a remark which bears in more than one sense on our present subject.

  • On the basis of our present findings it is no longer enough to trace the appearing of the after-image solely to a differential fatigue in the retina.

  • In the stanza following upon this, Traherne makes a statement which is of particular importance in the context of our present discussion.

  • There is, however, an occurrence of this kind also on the purely mineral level of nature, and it is this which has particular significance for our present study of matter.

  • In our present context it suffices to realize that we understand man's earlier view of nature, and with it the one still held by van Helmont, only by admitting levity equally with gravity into his world-picture.

  • Beurnonville, our present Ambassador at Madrid, is the son of a porter, and was a porter himself when, in 1770, he enlisted as a soldier in one of our regiments serving in the East Indies.

  • Our present Minister at Hamburg (Bourrienne) is far from being so nice.

  • A slight depression in business would greatly reduce our revenue because of our present method of taxation.

  • And let us all begin to do something in the direct line of our present talk.

  • It is still too early to attempt scientific method in discussing this problem, nor is our present store of the necessary facts by any means complete enough to warrant me in promising any approach to fulness of statement respecting them.

  • But in our present view of the subject, the geographical revolution which has been accomplished is still more interesting.

  • The deposits of bill-brokers and the profits of bill-broking are increased by our present system, just in proportion as the dangers of bill-brokers during a panic are increased by it.

  • Our present system of deposit banking, in which no bills or promissory notes are issued, was not then known on a great scale, and was not called banking.

  • The gift of 'exclusive banking' to the Bank of England was read in its most natural modern sense: it was thought to prohibit any other banking company from carrying on our present system of banking.

  • He would have greater facility, indeed, than now, for, except with the leave of Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer cannot borrow by our present laws in the open market.

  • I suppose the number of the thousands is dropped in our present copies.

  • Our present copies of the Old Testament want this encomium upon king Jechoniah or Jehoiachim, which it seems was in Josephus's copy.

  • It may be in me a defect of political fortitude, but I acknowledge that I cannot entertain an equal tranquillity with those who affect to treat the dangers of a longer continuance in our present situation as imaginary.

  • Its tendency to promote the interests of revenue will be the subject of our present inquiry.

  • Toby, wearied with the fatigues of the day, slumbered heavily by my side; but the pain under which I was suffering effectually prevented my sleeping, and I remained distressingly alive to all the fearful circumstances of our present situation.

  • But I paid slight attention to a substance of so little value to us in our present situation, as soon as I perceived the indications it gave of Toby's foresight in laying in a supply of food for the expedition.

  • Most of our present-day morality is a matter of custom or convention; and there are those who make a complete identification of the two concepts, morality being simply to them conventional habits of conduct.

  • In our present organization of industry, what are the duties of businessmen: I.

  • If morality were limited to the cases where we can be sure on which side the greater good or lesser evil lies, we should not be shorn of much of our present code.

  • In the light of our present knowledge, the attitude toward liquor demanded by morality of the individual admits of no debate.

  • Our present life is the result of the struggle which was then carried on.

  • In our present condition we ought not to give ourselves airs, for even on the most important subjects we are always changing our minds; so utterly stupid are we!

  • Let us trust for deliverance to the potent interposition of the gods whom our fathers worshipped--those gods who now, perhaps, avenge themselves for our desertion of their temples by our present calamities.

  • Do you really mean that you are indifferent to the horrors of our present situation?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    entire change; our faith; our fathers; our first; our front; our government; our horses; our host; our house; our king; our last; our master; our midst; our mind; our national; our old; our opinion; our people; our religion; our side; our subject; our time; our troops; our voyage; our work; went under