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Example sentences for "private individual"

  • Let me answer by an analysis:--Every nation has the same interest in international, law as a private individual has in the laws of his country.

  • We are one of the nations, and we as a nation have precisely the same interest in international law as a private individual has in the laws of his country.

  • He considered himself as standing on that floor, not as a private individual, but as a Representative of New York; and as holding a trust which he was not authorized to abandon before a constitutional decision should be made.

  • St. Just, at the age of twenty-four, and merely a private individual, is already consumed with suppressed ambition.

  • Assembly, at the worst, will suspend him from his functions, and that he will return to the Tuileries as a private individual.

  • There, at least, one is lost in the crowd; one is protected by an incognito against the outrages of the commonalty; one can live there as a private individual.

  • Napoleon, taking no notice of the last stipulation, now promised to go to England, not as Emperor, but as a private individual.

  • If I am of any use, the benefit to be gained from my services will be just as great while I am a private individual.

  • Steuve, agent from the Court of Russia, who lived at Altona apparently as a private individual, profited by the irritation produced by the measures adopted at Hamburg.

  • To such overtures made to a private individual, who wished to preserve no connection either with the army, of whom nine-tenths have served under me, or any constituted authority, the only possible answer was a refusal.

  • The consequences of this extraordinary partnership between a King and a private individual remain to be stated.

  • Not essentially different is the case in which a private individual or a corporation acquires land with sovereignty over it in countries which are not under the territorial supremacy of a member of the Family of Nations.

  • Footnote 119: The question how far concessions granted by a subjugated State to a private individual or to a company must be upheld by the subjugating State, is difficult to answer in its generality.

  • And also in intestine quarrels, such as are common in that nation, every one avoids as sacrilege wounding any descendant of Arsaces, whether in arms or living as a private individual.

  • That to the protection of that power the republic, embarrassed as it was, fled for succour, just as a private individual in distress.

  • Moreover it is not the business of a private individual to summon together the people, which has to be done in wartime.

  • For it is not the business of a private individual to declare war, because he can seek for redress of his rights from the tribunal of his superior.

  • It's a reward of AL500 offered by a private individual.

  • You don't call Mr. Reginald Boyd a private individual in this here case, do you?

  • Inspector Robson instantly straightened himself; he was no longer a private individual, but an officer of the law prepared for duty in whatever complicated shape it presented itself.

  • The State, consequently, in relationship to them and to all collective persons, is what it is with respect to a private individual, neither more nor less; its title to intervene between them is not different.

  • Likewise the axiom, that it is never lawful for a private individual to kill any one whatever.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    currently vacant; great and; great calm; just kind; must conclude; private cabinet; private capital; private charity; private collection; private detective; private dining; private hands; private houses; private inquiry; private interests; private land; private letters; private marriage; private practice; private schools; private sector; private theatricals; private view; private wealth; soon made; waiting upon