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Example sentences for "our system"

  • Let us not despair that the same mighty energies and regenerating forces will be able to assign a docile and not untractable race its appropriate place in our system.

  • Sovereignty in this country is in the people, but the States have certain rights, and those rights are absolutely necessary to the maintenance of our system of government.

  • They are now, and have been all the time, as much attached to our system of free republican government as those who abuse them for disloyalty.

  • Now we felt the imperfect organization of our system.

  • I have yet to reply to the main ground on which you and your coadjutors rely for the overthrow of our system of slavery.

  • Though we prefer the term slave, yet if this be its true definition, we must protest against its being applied to our system of African servitude, and insist that some other term shall be used.

  • And this is no inconsiderable compensation of the evils of our system; and would so appear, if we could form any conception of the immense amount of misery which is elsewhere thus inflicted.

  • Our system is not simple as yours, but more effective, for yours depends on thought ideas, not altogether universal.

  • The directional devices quickly spotted it as emanating from the third planet of our system.

  • Your system also has a large planet, slightly smaller than the largest of our system, but yet attractive.

  • More elasticity, more fluidity, as it were, is sadly needed in our system of public school education before this evil will be to any great extent modified.

  • We cannot stop the progress of our system of free education, nor would we be willing to do it.

  • If they were accompaniments of our system of education, I do not believe that American girls would break down under the brain-work that any University course for men, in our country, imposes.

  • There is, indeed, one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system, altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic appearances of the surface of our planet.

  • Our system commits no such violation of the laws of nature.

  • He was the means which brought about our system of coins, doing away with the old English pounds, shillings and pence, substituting the dollar and fractions of a dollar, even down to a cent.

  • The negro, by nature or by the curse against Canaan is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.

  • This measure was strongly opposed by Jefferson, and its passage had a marked effect on our system tending to centralize authority.

  • There is reason, therefore, to expect a long continuance of our system.

  • The division of governments into departments, and the division, again, of the legislative department into two chambers, are essential provisions in our system.

  • Of our system of government the first thing to be said is, that it is really and practically a free system.

  • The conversation extended to the United States--our system of Government as contrasted with theirs, etc.

  • Although I hope to be able to prepare a record of the private and personal history of the founding of our System of Public Education, and of the vicissitudes through which it passed, as requested by Dr.

  • It expresses so much of what is singular and noteworthy in the history of the country; it suggests so many of the things that we prize most highly in our life and in our system of government.

  • After the Civil War had settled some of what seemed to be the most difficult legal questions of our system, the life of the Nation began not only to unfold, but to accumulate.

  • I have been telling him something about our system of distribution, and perhaps he might like to see it in practical operation.

  • But this is aside from the purpose, for, though this plan would, I fancy, be practicable enough, it is no part of our system.

  • By our system, the manufacturer sold to the wholesaler, the wholesaler to the retailer, and the retailer to the consumer, and the goods had to be handled each time.

  • This principle of secondary choices as to occupation is quite important in our system.

  • In our system, when we speak of a fifth, we mean a fifth upward.

  • In temperament setting by our system, if the fifths are properly tempered and the octaves are left perfect, the other intervals will need no attention, and will be found beautifully correct when used in testing.

  • The first two columns cover the tones of the two octaves used in setting the temperament by our system.

  • For instance, if in the seventh step of our system, we tune E a little too flat, it sounds all the better when used as third in the chord of C, as we have shown in the experiment mentioned on page 94 of this lesson.

  • Political equality is but the corollary and logical result of that maxim of our system, set forth in our Declaration of Independence, that 'government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.

  • The Southern confederacy denies the truth of our system, and asserts that political equality is a fiction and foolishness.

  • Directly opposed to this idea is the organization of the Southern confederacy--the essential and substantial antipodes of our system.

  • Is it, as foreigners assert, the fatal defect of our system to fill our highest offices with men whose views in politics are bounded by the next district election?

  • Third, there are but FIVE tables in the metric system proper, these taking the place of from twelve to fifteen in our system (or lack of it).

  • In our system one is likely to avoid sixteenths or thirty-seconds on account of the labor of calculation.

  • In our system a mechanic after making a complicated calculation with common fractions is as likely as not to get his result in sixths, or ninths, etc.

  • It seems to have the flexibility required in meeting the irregularities that we see in our system.

  • In the first place, for the hypothesis to be applicable to our system, it is requisite that the primary and secondary bodies should revolve, both in their orbits and round their axes, in one direction, and nearly in one plane.

  • As soon as our system shall be extended over this commerce, a revenue of considerable amount will be at once collected, and it is not doubted that it will be annually increased.

  • We have enjoyed the blessings of our system of well-regulated self-government for near three-fourths of a century, and can properly appreciate its value.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our system" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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