Sometimes a fortunate struggle of a live fetus will greatly aid in rectifying the position.
To those acquainted with the toil, fatigue, and discomfort of embryotomy, no discussion is necessary so long as there is a prospect of success from the simple and generally easier method of rectifying the faulty position of the calf.
Let us also set about rectifying the causes which threaten the overthrow of our government.
The rectifying of the mind is realized when the thoughts are made sincere [3].
The cultivation of the person results from the rectifying of the heart or mind [2].
And knowledge must be thus perfected before we can achieve the sincerity of our thoughts, and the rectifying of our hearts!
What means and helps for instruction and self-examination you may hereafter have is uncertain; but one thing is certain, that the time is short, your opportunity for rectifying mistakes in so important a concern will soon come to an end.
I was thus particular in rectifying the date of this letter, because it gave me an opportunity of explaining the grounds on which it was written, which were, indirectly, an answer to his present hints.
By rectifying their ideas, it will tend to that conciliation which is absolutely necessary to the peace and prosperity of both nations.
In writing to him at the end of the century, evidently in answer to a request, Locke proposes a scheme for rectifying the calendar.
I relate the true history of the transaction to enforce my appeal to my fellow housekeepers, all over the land, to join hands in a measure which would, I am persuaded, go far toward rectifying a crooked system.
A dear friend, in whose judgment I have put much faith, put it well when she gave her reason for rectifying only the glaring disorders of her boy's apartments while he was out of them, and letting the rest go.
At this instant the medium resistance, M, aids the rectifying quality of the gaps, GM, by shunting out the low frequency current of the alternator.
The cylinders are made of an alloy that contains metal of low boiling point which gives the rectifying effect, and metals of high boiling point which cannot vaporize in the presence of the one of low boiling point.
It is a rectifying effect, and before the pressure again reverses, the arc vapor in the gaps has cooled to a non-conducting state.
The night was passed by the soldiers in strengthening their positions, and by the Rear-Admiral in rectifying his order to meet the expected attack.
Naturally, an order taken up under such conditions needed somerectifying before further battle.
Yet we are content to hunt for the motives of this inconsistency of belief and action, instead of rectifying it!
She complains of being tired out with the labor of rectifying the disorders of John's bachelor establishment.
The opposing the opinions, and rectifying the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us.
An Extract Of A Letter not long since written from Rome, rectifying the Relation of Salamanders living in Fire.
An Extract of a Letter from Rome, rectifying the Relation of Salamanders living in Fire.
I should esteem my self a very happy Man, if my Speculations could in the least contribute to the rectifying the Conduct of my Readers in one of the most important Affairs of Life, to wit their Choice in Marriage.
In the preceding labour for the rectifying of the language, preference had been given to French words of Latin origin.
Arguing thus, the copyist took the opportunity of rectifying the omission, written from the standpoint of a Pharisee, and therefore designating the Lord as merely a wise man.
By rectifying the faints at a very gentle heat, most of the alcohol and water first pass over together with only a little fusel oil, whilst the latter forms the residuum in the still.
By allowing the product to stand for some days over chloride of calcium or quicklime, and again rectifying it along with one of these substances, perfectly pure ether may be obtained.
Another plan is to filter the spirit successively through 6 or 7 separate vessels containing pine or willow charcoal before rectifying it.
They show how much such a genius needs to apply to itself the balancing and rectifying criticisms of a sober wisdom.
But I have not thanked you, dearest Lady Anne, for your kindness in regard to a principal object,--that of rectifying false impressions.
Such an offensive was only possible on account of the comparative weakness of the Turkish trenches, a defect which they lost no time in rectifying later on, when a period of sullenness set in.
Some were firing, others were cooling, waiting a target, or refitting, rectifying some temporary trouble caused by a bullet or a shell.
During the excavations for the "Correction des Eaux du Jura," some remarkable discoveries were made, especially while deepening and rectifying the lower Thielle between Nidau and Meyenried.
To remedy these defects the Swiss Government entered on the gigantic project of rectifying and deepening the entire waterway from the junction of the Lower Thielle with the Aar to the mouth of the Broye in Lake Morat.
The word and the Spirit of God are the chief agencies in rectifying our standards of judgment, and so of enabling conscience to make absolutely right decisions.
Education has its chief effect, not upon the conscience, but upon the moral reason, in rectifying its erroneous, or imperfect standards of judgment.
Men are often unwilling to take the trouble of rectifying their standards of judgment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rectifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: balancing; compensating; compensatory; offsetting; penitential; reparative; retaliatory
