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Example sentences for "perative"

Lexicographically close words:
peraps; perate; perated; perating; peration; peraventure; percale; percase; perceave; perceaved
  1. Having demonstrated the strength of coöperative hunting, he organized easily a squad of the bravest and most active of the men as special hunters of large game.

  2. These are the Civil Service Supply Association, the Civil Service Coöperative Society, and the Army and Navy Stores.

  3. In a coöperative store, competition between buyer and seller does not exist; and the same is true for borrower and lender in a building and loan association and for employer and employee in a coöperative factory.

  4. The history of these societies has been marked by a large number of failures, and they have lacked the moral elevation of the coöperative movement in its other phases.

  5. After the great strike of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, in 1852, a series of iron workers' coöperative associations were formed.

  6. With 1869, however, began a series of annual Coöperative Congresses which, like the annual Trade Union Congresses, have sprung from the initiative of workingmen themselves and which are still continued.

  7. Nevertheless, productive societies more or less consistent to coöperative principles exist in considerable numbers and have even shown a distinct increase of growth in recent years.

  8. The shareholders are the retail coöperative societies, which supply the capital and control its actions.

  9. From the union of the two motives of voluntarism and individualism springs another and a more familiar type of religion, that of coöperative spiritual endeavor.

  10. The women were not as coöperative as she had expected them to be.

  11. In addition, teachers and inspectors employed by the state give instruction as to farming, marketing, and the use of coöperative agencies, while the railroads are owned by the state and operated with an eye to the development of agriculture.

  12. We want to reconstruct society, and we must go to work without delay, and work ceaselessly for the coöperative Commonwealth, the ideal of the future.

  13. To get in and keep in does not seem any sort of an object to any one that will contemplate the possibilities of the Coöperative Commonwealth.

  14. Encouragement by the Board of Agriculture of coöperative societies of farmers-- For the buying of seed and fertilizers.

  15. Government would change its character, and would become the administration of a great coöperative society.

  16. L was friendly and coöperative throughout the test.

  17. On the same occasion he was given the Coöperative General Culture Test, by Dr.

  18. The coöperative purpose or result is thus the test of useful, as contrasted with wasteful or harmful, competition.

  19. The only league that can be trusted by peoples willing to live and let live, is one that is controlled by a coöperative spirit.

  20. What more do we need than fair competition to constitute the coöperative international life which we dreamed yesterday and now must consider, not merely as a dream, but as the only alternative to a future of horror?

  21. To the coöperative group, however, this test will not be the ultimate ethical test.

  22. Yet coöperation for protection of liberty and justice is liable to fall short of humanity's hopes unless liberty and justice be themselves defined in a coöperative sense.

  23. And when under modern conditions labor is considered as a commodity to be bought and sold in the cheapest market by an impersonal corporate employer, there is a strong presumption against the coöperative attitude on either side.

  24. In 1907 the farmers' coöperative demonstration work, which has also been mentioned, was inaugurated.

  25. For six years the National Labor Union continued to hold conferences and carry on its propaganda; but most of the coöperative enterprises failed, political dissensions arose, and by 1872 the experiment had come to an end.

  26. They waged more strikes than they could carry on successfully; their coöperative experiments failed as those of other labor groups before them had failed; and the rank and file could not be kept in line.

  27. In philosophy, the Knights of Labor were socialistic, for they advocated public ownership of the railways and other utilities and the formation of coöperative societies to own and manage stores and factories.

  28. They built irrigation works by coöperative labor and granted water rights to all families on equitable terms.

  29. The purchase of supplies and the sale of produce were carried on through a coöperative store, the profits of which went to the common good.

  30. Above all, it sought to eliminate the conflict between capital and labor by making workingmen the owners of shops through the formation of coöperative industries.

  31. Here let me say that first impressions in this case gave no index to the manly, brave spirit that was in him, which, true as steel, bore to the end witness to his belief in the truth and the divinity of the associative and coöperative ideas.

  32. In order to economize labor, and dignify the laborer, it is absolutely necessary that men should cease to work in the present isolated, competitive mode, and adopt that of coöperative union or Association.

  33. In the replies of the Council and of the Assembly recognition is made of the coöperative movements of the North Carolina and Virginia forces.

  34. On the 7th of July, General Lee wrote to the president of the Virginia Convention that an opportunity offered for a coöperative movement.

  35. Coöperative selling has been undertaken and found profitable.

  36. Each woman in this coöperative organization must keep her goods up to a certain standard, for an inferior lot of goods sent to a large firm might ruin a reputation.

  37. Machinery logically and irrevocably involves the coöperative action of individuals.

  38. Schools and churches and all sorts of coöperative enterprises testify to the new racial self-respect, while a genuine Negro drama has begun to flourish.

  39. As yet there was no racial consciousness, no church, no business organization, and the chief coöperative effort was in insurrection.

  40. There has been some beginning in coöperative effort; thus the Bassa Trading Association is an organization for mutual betterment of perhaps as many as fifty responsible merchants and farmers.

  41. By 1700 the only coöperative effort on the part of the Negro was such as that in the isolated society to which Cotton Mather gave rules, or in a spasmodic insurrection, or a rather crude development of native African worship.

  42. But even when the necessity exists and is recognized it takes time to build up a strong coöperative association.

  43. Irish agriculture, bases his whole conception of a desirable polity for the Irish State upon coöperative communities, and considers coöperative societies as a prerequisite to rural organization.

  44. If the farmers are organized for coöperative selling, they will be benefited by the better local markets, which are the backbone of the agricultural economy of so prosperous a country as France.

  45. If this takes place, as I hope it will, the rural laborer, instead of being a manual worker using primitive implements, will have the status of a skilled mechanic employed permanently by a coöperative community.

  46. The whole movement came to be called "the farmers' coöperative demonstration work.

  47. The efficiency test must, therefore, rule more strongly against operators of the tenures, whose characteristics are opposed to successful coöperative effort on their part.

  48. The good fruits of coöperation had already appeared in the evolution of a scientific and logical scheme, long before such coöperative action had been frowned upon by the law and the courts.

  49. Classifications, on the other hand, do not originate with particular railways at all; but are issued for them by coöperative bodies, known as classification committees.

  50. There are also a number of other coöperative local railway committees, each dealing with the special concerns of its own territory, and representing the joint interests of the railways therein included to all the world outside.

  51. Since his time, by reason of coöperative action for a generation, the confusing maze of railway lines has now been reduced to a single comprehensive system.

  52. The world's literature is too vast and complex to be completely catalogued, whether on the coöperative plan, or any other.

  53. The publishing activities of the times are taking on a certain coöperative element, which was not formerly known.

  54. Poole, and was contributed to by many librarians on a coöperative division of labor, in indexing, under direction of Mr. Wm.

  55. A very important cause of former poverty was the vast waste of labor and materials which resulted from domestic washing and cooking, and the performing separately of innumerable other tasks to which we apply the coöperative plan.

  56. And when he preaches the necessity of the coöperative commonwealth, he does it with a Yankee twang.

  57. But they imply the destruction of war; and it now seems possible that Russia will stand before the world, at least until the radical elements fall before conservatives, as the most prominent champion of coöperative peace.

  58. As to the influence of autocracy, the advocate of peace must admit that it is by nature hostile to his system of coöperative peace.

  59. Probably he has not used it as I am going to use it, but it works his way; for it shows that a tremendous fate threatens, unless some coöperative movement is established to avert it.

  60. The personnel of coöperative movements, I believe, is the main feature.

  61. In undertaking to explain the advantages of a coöperative community store, a writer was confronted with the problem of handling a considerable number of figures.

  62. It should be said, however, that coöperative associations among the farmers are growing at a rapid pace.

  63. The Grange and the Farmers' Alliance are primarily coöperative associations for the purpose of benefiting their members in the purchase of goods and in various other directions, and they are fast increasing in numbers and influence.

  64. During these years a number of small unions were formed, some as far west as Detroit and Chicago, but in almost every case the union later became a coöperative society.

  65. She tried to save what she could out of the wreck of the union by forming the Coöperative Linen, Collar and Cuff Factory, and obtained for it the patronage of the great department store of A.

  66. The mixed local does not, as a general rule, offer the best training-class for new girl recruits, in which they may obtain their training in collective bargaining or coöperative effort.

  67. The very first principles of coöperative action and mutual responsibility are unknown to the great majority of the young workers.

  68. It maintained a coöperative tailoring shop, backed by the support of such coöperative advocates as George Lippard, John Shedden, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

  69. Their capacity for coöperation is seen in their establishment of their own coöperative stores.

  70. But great hope is to be placed in the coöperative movement, with the gradual establishment of factories and stores by organizations of the workers themselves.

  71. Our property in land and instruments was well divided among many or all; we produced the peasant; we maintained the independent craftsman; we founded coöperative industry.

  72. The Guilds from true coöperative partnerships for the proper distribution of the means of production, and for the prevention of a proletariat with its vile cancer of capitalism, tended to become privileged bodies.

  73. In America a few of the productive coöperative companies are found operating small factories.

  74. On the frontier a coöperative spirit manifested itself frequently in mutual helpfulness, in house raising bees, husking bees, threshing bees, and other similar gatherings.

  75. Therefore, whether losing or making money, they nearly all cease to exist as coöperative enterprises.

  76. In the period beginning 1867 many coöperative stores were founded in America by farmers in the Grange movement, who operated also grain elevators, warehouses, and steamboat lines.

  77. The coöperative principle has been embodied much more successfully and on a larger scale in America in the form of producers' selling organizations or of consumers' coöperative stores.

  78. Coöperative schemes thus suffer from the workers' inability to appreciate the functions of enterprise and management.

  79. The most notable developments were those of the California Fruit Exchange and of coöperative societies of the Northwest for marketing grain.

  80. The local producers' selling coöperative society is composed of farmers who as enterprisers own and carry on their own separate businesses; they are not, as in the other case, wage workers.

  81. Building and loan association is the name applied to a coöperative organization of persons with the purpose of collecting regularly from members small sums which are loaned to some members for the purpose of building or paying for homes.

  82. This selection is made hard in coöperative shops by jealousies and rivalries, and by politics among the workmen.

  83. The coöperative stores, both in Great Britain and on the Continent, have continued to develop mainly among the industrial classes in urban centers.


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