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Example sentences for "parity"

Lexicographically close words:
parishioners; parishoners; parit; pariter; pariterque; parium; park; parka; parkas; parked
  1. At this stage gold and silver must part company and the Government must fail in its established policy to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other.

  2. It is, however, declared in the act to be "the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio or such ratio as may be provided by law.

  3. It was, however, declared in the act to be "the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio or such ratio as may be provided by law.

  4. If both gold and silver are to serve us as money and if they together are to supply to our people a safe and stable currency, the necessity of preserving this parity is obvious.

  5. This law insists upon the "maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.

  6. This is an exact reversal of the policy which safe finance dictates if we are to preserve parity between gold and silver and maintain sensible bimetallism.

  7. It yields the value true if the previous read operation produced a parity error; otherwise it yields the value false.

  8. It yields the value true if the previous write operation produced a parity error; otherwise it yields the value false.

  9. There is not the slightest parity between the passive and active powers of the water and those of the oxygen and hydrogen which have given rise to it.

  10. It is true that there is no sort of parity between the properties of the components and the properties of the resultant, but neither was there in the case of the water.

  11. And by a parity of reasoning, Congress could exclude from the mails matter relating to gambling transactions which might be forbidden under the police power of the state, although such matter, on its face, would be harmless.

  12. At common law, the committee argued, the king could not sanction a nuisance; by parity of reasoning a nuisance may be denied governmental encouragement.

  13. In the attainment of this purpose we necessarily claim parity of treatment, under the conventions, throughout the Empire for our trade and our citizens with those of all other powers.

  14. Upon which you remark, "that if the infinite is to make no demands upon the finite, by parity of reasoning, the great and strong should scarcely make them on the weak and small.

  15. If the Infinite is to make no demand upon the finite, by parity of reasoning the great and strong should scarcely make them on the weak and small.

  16. But you insist that "if the infinite is to make no demands upon the finite, by parity of reasoning, the great and strong should scarcely make them on the weak and small.

  17. And, by parity of reasoning, I now adduce it as equally strong evidence of natural selection having been the cause of adaptive structures, independently developed in all the different lines of descent.

  18. And, by parity of reasoning, in whatever degree such a state of matters were found to prevail, in that degree would the theory in question have been discredited.

  19. Now, by parity of reason, we are entitled to invert this order, and to express what is unimportant by some word indicating the mere fashion or external manner of an object as opposed to its substance.

  20. The election of Mr. Cleveland in 1892, upon the platform framed by him, naturally created distrust as to the ability of the government to maintain the parity of the different forms of money in circulation.

  21. Bimetallism could only exist where the market value of the two metals approached the coinage value, or where a strong government, with a good credit, received and paid out coins of each metal at parity with each other.

  22. If silver bullion did not decline in market value it could, if necessary, be coined without loss, and thus the parity of the notes with gold could be readily maintained according to the declared policy of the law.

  23. In lieu thereof, however, a clause declaring that it was the purpose of the government to maintain the parity of the metals was inserted.

  24. They must be treated as United States notes, and maintained at par with gold coin, or the parity of our coin and currency will be endangered.

  25. The minor coins of silver, were received and paid out without question at parity with gold coin, because the amount was limited and they were coined by the government only as demanded for the public convenience.

  26. In the meantime let the United States stand upon its strength and credit, maintaining its money, different kinds of money, at a parity with each other.

  27. France and the United States maintain the parity between the two by carefully limiting the coinage and receiving and redeeming silver coins as the equivalent of gold.

  28. Silver, of which there was a superabundance in the mines, was to be coined at the ratio of sixteen dollars of silver for every one of gold in circulation, and the parity of the two metals maintained by fiat of government.

  29. Cowperwood, no less than other men of wealth, was opposed to what he deemed a crack-brained idea--that of maintaining a parity between gold and silver by law.

  30. But it is to France that the world is indebted for maintaining the parity through those years of alarm and panic.

  31. And, by a parity of reasoning, the gold standard will make us as fanatical as the Turks, as superstitious as the Spaniards, and as hot-tempered and revengeful as the Moors.

  32. It would indeed be little to the purpose to prove that she had maintained the metals at a parity by free coinage, if, in the meantime, her people had suffered loss.

  33. We desire to restore the parity of gold and silver by perfectly "natural causes" set in operation by "artificial means.

  34. By parity of non-sequitur, we are, therefore, to surrender the active is building.

  35. In a clause of superb ambiguity they announced that it was "the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio or such other ratio as may be provided by law.

  36. The Specie Problem--the Parity of Gold and Silver.

  37. I presume that the Philadelphia school board is about on an intellectual and moral parity with the trustees of Baylor--haven't the remotest idea whether merde means maggots or moonshine.

  38. By a parity of reasoning a mad house should mean a house that is mad; and provided that each word retain its natural meaning and its natural accent, such is the fact.

  39. Good illustrations of the parity and disparity of accent may be drawn from certain names of places.

  40. He admitted that the whole question of parity of entrance standards was highly controversial.

  41. On the committee's behalf, Fahy agreed to reword the recommendation on schooling for all qualified Negroes within eighteen months of enlistment and to discuss further the parity issue.

  42. Although the Navy and the Air Force had agreed to reexamine the matter, they had consistently opposed the application of enlistment parity in the past, and the Secretary of Defense's Personnel Policy Board had indorsed their position.

  43. General Marshall agreed that racial parity could not be achieved at the expense of commissioning unqualified men, but he was equally adamant about providing equal opportunity for all qualified candidates, black and white.

  44. George Marshall's decision to establish a parity of enlistment standards for the services.

  45. He wanted Johnson to concentrate his attack on the parity question.

  46. It wanted Secretary Johnson to make "a strong representation" to Fahy against the suggestion that there be a parity of scores for enlistment in the services.

  47. For years the Army's demand for a parity of enlistment standards had been opposed by the Navy and the Air Force and had once been rejected by Secretary Forrestal.

  48. Yet the parity of enlistment standards was a vital part of the committee's argument for the abolition of the Army's racial quota.

  49. The question of parity of enlistment standards aside, the Navy's program generally followed the suggestions of the Fahy Committee, and Chairman Reid urged Johnson to accept it.

  50. The restoration of silver coinage was the method by which they desired their protection, and they asserted that Congress could coin all the silver and yet maintain it at a parity with gold.

  51. It opposed the free coinage of silver, asserted that all money must be kept at a "parity with gold," and pledged itself to work for an international agreement for bimetallism.

  52. In that city he formed his early friendship with Leonardo da Vinci, which Sanzi says was cemented by parity of age as of affection; and it is singular how little such sympathy can be traced in their genius or works.

  53. A metaphor, then, is not to be considered as an argument, but as an assertion that an argument exists; that a parity subsists between the case from which the metaphor is drawn and that to which it is applied.

  54. But obedience was on a parity with valour.


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