To avoid these irritating and vexatious delays, a proposition has been made to provide for a direct appeal for redress to the Captain-General by our consul in behalf of our injured fellow-citizens.
The man who had been wounded died at the hospital the next day; and his companions appeared but very ill able to provide for themselves, even by those means which had occasioned our being troubled with them in this country.
The office-holder has promised active obedience to the Constitution in every exigency which it has contemplated and sought to provide for.
To refuse to provide for ourselves by useful labor, the apostle Paul teaches us to regard as a grave offence.
I have had large sums of acceptances to provide for, with nothing towards them but what was in the uncertainty of the drapers' hands.
Alfred Hurdlestone would have made a good soldier, but, unfortunately for him, there were several valuable church-livings in the family; and his father refused to provide for him in any other way.
Have you no friends, Mary, who can receive you until your brother is able to provide for you?
But this meeting has determined me to pursue another plan, and leave you to provide for yourself.
If more are required, it is always in the power of Congress, during their term of office, to provide for sessions at any time.
What instruction did the textbooks as printed (239) provide for?
Just what type of education did the Quakers mean to provide for, as shown in the extract from their Rules of Discipline (199)?
The eight days during which the burghers had to feed themselves were soon over, and now it was the duty of the Government to provide for them.
And as each member will have his friends and connections to provide for, the desire of mutual gratification will beget a scandalous bartering of votes and bargaining for places.
It is one of those cases which must be left to provide for itself.
The latter has made requisitions which the former have had to provide for.
To provide for amendments to be ratified by three fourths of the States under two exceptions only.
Neglect to provide for all of this means to incur the risk of future disaster and disgrace.
We are now taking steps to provide for elections in the island and our expectation is within the coming year to be able to turn the island over again to government chosen by the people thereof.
Yet in my judgment it will in the end be advisable in connection with the packing house inspection law to provide for putting a date on the label and for charging the cost of inspection to the packers.
This trip to the Pacific will show what some of our needs are and will enable us to provide for them.
We most earnestly hope that this state of things may continue; and the way to insure its continuance is to provide for a thoroughly efficient navy.
Again and again Washington begged Congress to provide for an army of regulars enlisted for the war, thoroughly trained and paid according to some definite plan.
In 1903, anarchists were excluded and the bureau of immigration was transferred from the Treasury Department to the Department of Commerce and Labor, in order to provide for a more rigid execution of the law.
I was just asking the Lord to provide for me when you knocked at the door.
It was established twelve years since by Doctor Cullis, who in the ardor of his faith and trust gave himself to the work of the Lord, by ministering in Jesus' Name, to the poor consumptives who were unable to provide for themselves.
I had a wife and five children dependent on me, and for many months was unable to provide for them by my own labors.
I said to myself, 'The Lord didprovide for Abraham, but He won't provide for me.
Her husband's death left her destitute, with little children to provide for, and few friends from whom to look for continuous aid.
Now, however, she had a sense of obligation which would not let her rest without saying to him, "It is very good of you to provide for mamma.
I must get my own bread, and I desire to provide for my mamma, so as to save her from any hardship.
He intended to retire on his fiftieth birthday, but before that time had arrived (having five sons to provide for) he reversed his decision, and resolved to continue in business a little longer, and to remain at the head of the firm.
They did not need to provide for to-morrow; their masters provided for them.
It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow, as well as for to-day.
He had a family of eight children to provide for; and he put his sons for the most part into his business.
Congress, then, has the power to provide for organizing the arms-bearing people of the State into militia.
It was not for them to make arrangements for its termination--a calamity which there was no occasion to provide for in advance.
Then I must try to find employment--something that will enable me to provide for myself.
Provide for them if you will, my dear young lady, but believe me you are by no means called upon to divide your property with them.
My own impression is that your uncle did destroy his will, intending to make a different distribution of his money, and to provide for you.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provide for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
