Self-perpetuating boards of trustees have elected to their membership a certain number of mature alumni.
In being governed undemocratically from without by a self-perpetuating body of directors, Wellesley is of course no worse off than the majority of American colleges.
This accomplished the end which was designed by nobody but reached by everybody, that of breaking down the feeling of national unity and perpetuating feelings which it had been the aim of patriots to obliterate.
Formerly, the universal mode of perpetuating named Hollyhocks was by the troublesome process of cuttings, or by grafting buds on roots of seedlings in houses heated to tropical temperature.
All three were of signal service in devoting their knowledge of Greek to perpetuating and popularizing the Greek classics with the aid of the newly-invented art of printing.
These purely vegetative actions of plants, what might almost be called their bread and butter activities, would never lead to perpetuating their kind.
This may have the merit of ingenuity, but in connection with it Webster makes a sounder observation when he compares New England perpetuating old English idioms because of her isolation, to an internal village contrasted with a city.
From these considerations he proceeds to lay down a "Plan of Policy for improving the Advantages and perpetuating the Union of the American States.
The good man proposed as a condition of his gift that the old management by an Education Society and its appointed Trustees must give way to a board of self-perpetuating Trustees.
We give them just enough of the forms of justice to enable them to add the pretext of legal trials to their other modes of perpetuating the most atrocious iniquity.
He urged secession for the purpose of extending and perpetuating for ever the peculiar institution.
The so-called Confederate States, the new power, organized for the avowed purpose of extending and perpetuating African slavery, was now in full blast.
Mount Regnier[5] Christians have dubbed it, in stupid nomenclature perpetuating the name of somebody or nobody.
This is as pure Indian as the other, and Winthrop's popularization of the word was a public service, as perpetuating one of the most significant of our Indian place-names.
Such is an inkling of the infamous means that have been resorted to, from time to time, for the purpose of upholding and perpetuating in America the accursed institution of slavery.
There is but one way for the oligarchy to perpetuate slavery in the Southern States, and that is by perpetuating absolute ignorance among the non-slaveholding whites.
To oppose this, to prevent what he thought was a tyrannical abuse of authority with the intent of perpetuating itself, he was willing to put to question the fundamental authority of the government to pull down the whole structure.
Is there no crime in perpetuating these evils among their innocent offspring?
In the course of his observations he showed that the system of duties progressively increasing, as proposed by the noble lord, would be one of the most effectual modes of perpetuating the Slave Trade.
Types were persistent, family features standing strong for centuries and perpetuating themselves from generation to generation.
The French academy, actuated by a servile spirit of adulation, caused a medal to be struck on the occasion, which, instead of perpetuating the glory of their prince, served only to transmit their own shame to posterity.
The Caracci not only resolved to paint justly, but to preserve the art itself, by perpetuating the perfect taste of the true style among their successors.
Sir John Finett, like a man of genius in office, and living too in an age of diaries, has not resisted the pleasant labour of perpetuating his own narrative.
There is no other writer who is so capable of perpetuating for us, in a work of art, a style of thought and manners which railways and newspapers will soon render as palæozoic as the mastodon or the megalosaurians.
At the best, the State, or the government, is an instrumentality for making peace, not for perpetuating it.
Peace established by the State, an armistice--the State is an instrumentality for making peace, not for perpetuating it, 7.
So that long before I became a doubter, I felt that the historical argument could never be useful to people generally, either in producing faith where it was not, or in perpetuating it where it was.
He formed a Church, employing the social instincts and affections of His followers as a means of perpetuating and extending His beneficent influence in the world.
In the late 1960s there was some evidence that social mobility was slowing down and that the society was beginning to stabilize into self-perpetuating social groups.
In effect the Politburo is a self-perpetuating body, and any change in membership is dictated by the members themselves.
We must ascertain the cause if possible, remove it, and thus prevent it from perpetuating the disease.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetuating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
