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Example sentences for "result"

Lexicographically close words:
restroom; restructure; restructured; restructuring; rests; resultado; resultant; resultants; resultat; resultats
  1. Their speedy extermination will probably be an indirect result of Californian discoveries, and of the prodigious growth of the Anglo-Saxon race on the northern continent of America.

  2. I have gone carefully through files of the most authoritative foreign circulars, and, with respect to American cotton particularly, the unvarying result has been to find prices considerably higher than in the British market.

  3. We are threatened with far more serious consequences than the result of the imposition or the non-imposition of a 4s.

  4. So far as regards the operations of British merchants in the produce of Brazil, Cuba, and other foreign tropical produce, the result has been almost equally disastrous with that attending the trade with our own possessions.

  5. The same result is found to have resulted upon Cuban and other foreign sugars.

  6. It cannot be rendered much more efficient than it is until the classes are increased in size and as a result the work differentiated and specialized.

  7. On the basis of the present enrollment of 40 or 50 carpenters the class would dwindle to three or four, with the result that the per capita teaching cost becomes prohibitive.

  8. As a result only a small proportion of the boys who begin as apprentices finish the apprenticeship term of three or four years.

  9. The result is that the work is much less efficient than it might well be.

  10. One result of this situation is that the men change employers more than any other workers in industry.

  11. The relatively small result now obtained is not the fault of the schools, but is due mainly to the fact that the field of vocational evening instruction is treated by the school system as a mere side line of the technical high schools.

  12. Violation of the strict rules laid down for the operation of trains on the part of employees may result in reprimand, suspension, or dismissal, according to the gravity of the offense.

  13. As a result they fall out of school without having had those portions of the work in reading, drawing, mathematics, and elementary science which would be of most direct use to them in their future work.

  14. As a result the automobile manufacturers are turning out one of the most complicated and most efficient machines known to modern industry with a working force composed chiefly of semi-skilled labor.

  15. An attempt to form separate classes for each of the eight largest trades in the city would result in two classes of not over five pupils, three classes of not over 10 pupils, and only one of over 13 pupils.

  16. As a result the problem of supplementary instruction at a later age, when he wakes up to his need for it, becomes much more difficult than if trade-extension training had been taken up at once when he entered employment.

  17. The result is, that the cattle go right in; the experiment fails.

  18. These will result from only the least addition to the pressure of slavery upon them.

  19. He is worthy of Massachusetts, and worthy to lead the new movement of the people of that State, which the result here so fitly inaugurates.

  20. He appealed to the people by voice and pen, and as the result he and a companion in his disunion views were elected to the proposed Southern Congress over two secession candidates.

  21. A long controversy was the result of this bold decision, and retaliatory measures were tried by the State of Virginia, but Governor Seward remained firm to the end.

  22. The result was, that the preliminaries of a duel were arranged, but fortunately, by the interposition of friends, an amicable adjustment of the difficulty was arrived at.

  23. The result reminded him of a conference between Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith.

  24. Sir, I trust that the result of this discussion will show that the American Senate will sanction no breach of compact.

  25. The breach between himself and Jackson was on the question of the removal of the deposits, and the result was that Mr. Bell went over to the Whigs.

  26. The result of the election was the triumph of Mr. Douglas by four hundred votes.

  27. It is the result of deliberate thought in him--and if it is mistaken policy, then of course it is to be set down as a blunder, not a vice.

  28. The American organization was shivered to atoms, and no man contributed more to that result than General Wilson; and in doing it he but redeemed the words he had uttered while his election to the Senate was pending.

  29. The senator thinks that this result is not attributable to the ordinance.

  30. This result of the congressional campaign seemed to disgust him with public political life, and he quietly withdrew to private life.

  31. She died before the year was out from the result of an accident on the ice.

  32. The result was a decree nisi with heavy costs.

  33. The meeting was not regularly organized, but everybody said what he or she had to say, and the result was a great deal of clamor, and a general increase of indignation against Uncle Pete.

  34. This view of the case created a sensation, and much interest was shown in the result of Jim's calculations, which were made by the aid of a back of an old letter and a piece of pencil furnished by Susan.

  35. The result was at last announced as three hundred and nineteen, which, although not precisely correct, was near enough to satisfy the company.

  36. Beyond all things, I have been warned of the danger which would result from giving him reason to suspect our design.

  37. The strength that was in Gaston's face might puzzle a keen reader of character as to whether it were native, or the result of years of well-fought battles.

  38. Upon them he had worked his fanciful designs, and the result was most satisfactory.

  39. Jude was struggling to digest it; but the result was simple.

  40. My own happiness was twisted out of shape by what I saw was to be the result of my gain over his loss.

  41. The result is that the rates are lower for the throughout distance than to and from some of the intermediate places.

  42. It does not appear to your Committee that such a result would be either just or reasonable.

  43. The result was that in one State after a trial of about two years, the law establishing such a tribunal was hastily repealed.

  44. An American writer points out that the following would be the result of applying the principle of equal mileage rates, or of basing rates on cost of service:-- 1.

  45. But the Railway Clearing House Classification, which is the result of this continual effort to adapt charges to new conditions, answers reasonably, if not perfectly, the requirements of trade.

  46. Even if the home trade were not injured, the result of equal mileage rates must be to increase the cost of production of many articles manufactured at a distance from ports of shipment.

  47. The result would be that cheap and heavy products could be no longer transported over the distances that are now carried.

  48. The companies interested have been compelled to incur great expense in procuring returns and information, and the result has in general been only approximately accurate.

  49. One curious result would be brought about by charging per wagon--there would be a return to practices some forty years ago given up in England as needlessly costly and unsuitable to business.

  50. To all railway companies the result of establishing a system of equal mileage rates would not be the same.

  51. The result of such a course as is recommended would be, to say the least, problematical, as the suggested reasons for it are not unknown to the managers of railway companies, and have been carefully considered by them.

  52. The result is that a considerable portion of the traffic is carried under special agreements, under conditions such as the following, viz.

  53. But what would be the result if they put in force such a right?

  54. She's the result of the men and women who blazed the wilderness trail into Tennessee, and she has Huguenot puritanism contending with cavalier graces of spirit in her nature.

  55. Yes, get up early and have a good morning's walk," said Mary, with the result that the lamp was extinguished after candles had been lit.

  56. She chirruped again, and failing to obtain any reply, she made a quick motion with one hand, the result being a sharp rap as if a tiny stone had struck the vestry door to make a second sound as it fell upon the stone floor.

  57. There could only be one result to such intercourse as this.

  58. The figure started forward out of the darkness and caught her arm, with the result that Dally uttered a little affected squeal.

  59. As a result of a large number of experiments with different materials, we still rely upon the use of ethyl alcohol of known water-content.

  60. Consequently, as a result of this experience, in planning the calorimeters for the Nutrition Laboratory it was decided to design them for special types of experiments.

  61. A very careful consideration was given to possible sites in a number of cities, with the result that the laboratory was constructed on a plot of ground in Boston in the vicinity of large hospitals and medical schools.

  62. The result thus far leaves nothing to be desired as a vessel for this purpose.

  63. The earlier attempts to secure this result involved the use of enameled-iron soup-stock pots, fitted with special enameled-iron covers and closed with rubber gaskets.

  64. As a result of these experiments it has been possible to make correction for the slight temperature changes in the calorimeter.

  65. In the early experimenting, it was found impracticable to use piping of very small size, as otherwise stoppage as a result of sediment could easily occur.

  66. The logarithm of the total volume is recorded as a result of the addition of these three logarithms enumerated, and from this logarithm is expressed the total volume of air in liters.

  67. This procedure we have followed as a result of the recommendation of Dr.

  68. It seems to me, on the contrary, that then we should find ourselves compelled to admit that Charlotte Bronte had fallen very much in our esteem as a result of the publication of these Letters.

  69. Heger; and this was the result of my constant endeavour to be very careful to avoid the accent he disliked, when speaking to him.

  70. What was done with us was the result of circumstances that I cannot but regard as fortunate, in my own case at any rate.

  71. Harriet responded with perfect frankness to the invitation; and the almost inevitable result followed.

  72. Much that is doing is in compliance with treaty stipulations, and hence is well done, whether it have any practical result or not.

  73. In the one matter, the result is fortunately secure; nor will it be remembered against us, in diminution of our honor, that we procrastinated and sought to evade the issue, and for a time made terms and compromised with wrong.

  74. It is not even essential to the result of a dispersion of these tribes that the law should pronounce their dissolution as political communities.

  75. They hang about the settlements and military posts, begging and stealing; and, unless some prompt measures be taken to bring them under the care and control of an agent of the government, serious trouble may result at any time.

  76. The result of the year's campaign satisfied all reasonable men that war with Indians was useless and expensive.

  77. The result has been bickerings and faction quarrels, prejudicial to the peace and advancement of the community.

  78. But the final result would have been the same; Atlanta was doomed--by Sherman's force of three to one.

  79. More because of the fearful slaughter and the mournful fact that it was the result of a failure to deliver orders at the proper time.

  80. Finally the private dispatch announcing the result of the lawsuit sped over the wires, and as soon as he heard it he telegraphed his friend in San Francisco: "Am tired waiting.

  81. I pass to the last and most weighty theory, that the agreeableness in objects which we call beauty is the result of the association with them of agreeable or interesting ideas.

  82. When the reviewer talks of the non-interference of Government with regard to the productive industry of the country, he altogether omits mention of that most stringent interference which is the direct result of taxation.

  83. The result is an extent of illegitimacy enough to corrupt the whole rising population.

  84. You buy a million and plant your woodland, and the result is horror.

  85. It was the result of his cogitations over recent events.

  86. The result was meagre and unconvincing: money was coming to him, he was soon to make a voyage, and--he would never marry.

  87. For instance," he went on, "I feel sure it was the result of no mere chance that you became familiar with the terrors of what you term Higher Space; for Higher Space is no mere external measurement.

  88. The result was that at the end of fifty days I was cured and as sound as a fish in the water.

  89. The result was that I enjoyed a very pleasant night, far more to my satisfaction than if I had passed it with Faustina.

  90. In its own proper place I shall relate how, though he had these statues excellently cast, he obtained a result quite contrary to his imagination.

  91. My companions, brave and adventurous young men, made signs to me to draw my sword; but it flashed through my mind that if I drew, some terrible mischief might result for persons who were wholly innocent.

  92. The result was that in my irritation I more than once made up my mind to make off without asking leave.

  93. The result of this was that I began to recover from my physical depression, which had reached a very serious degree.

  94. The result of this casting greatly pleased his Excellency, who often came to my house to inspect it, encouraging me by the interest he showed to do my best.

  95. Clem was Catholic and Bill Protestant, and the result was a strange medley of prayers for Cinthie.

  96. But Poppy had no time to enjoy the result of her labour.

  97. The result in this case was the usual one when the weaker party succeeds in maintaining itself against the superior power of the stronger.

  98. The result was that a formal compact was concluded between Dubois and the musician, which granted the violinist considerable emoluments, but bound him and his family by oath to maintain the most absolute secrecy concerning the child's origin.

  99. The result was different, and now the longing for the brilliant Brussels on the hill was doubly strong.

  100. If scientific discipline is not supplemented by a truly humanistic or religious discipline the result is unethical science, and unethical science is perhaps the worst monster that has yet been turned loose on the race.

  101. The result is the type of sentimental misanthropy of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter.

  102. The beautiful soul does the right thing not as a result of effort, but spontaneously, unconsciously and almost inevitably.

  103. With the elimination of the ethical element from the soul of art the result is an imagination that is free to wander wild with the emancipated emotions.

  104. Some of the earlier exponents of the sentimental drama, like Diderot, were not so certain as one might expect that the discarding of traditional decorum in favor of “nature” would result practically in a reign of pure loveliness.

  105. This type of romanticism did not result in any recovery of the supposed primitive virtues, but it did bring about a revaluation of the received notions of morality that can scarcely be studied too carefully.

  106. As a result of these eighteenth-century influences, nature had, according to Carlyle, become a mere engine, a system of cogs and pulleys.

  107. In that field imagination and the analytical intellect were actually pulling together in the service of perception with the result that man was constantly gaining in power and utility.

  108. As a result of the Taoist influence China had from a very early period poets and painters for whom the landscape is very plainly a state of the soul.

  109. As a result of its supreme emphasis on humility Christianity from the start inclined unduly perhaps towards this type of paradox.

  110. Most of the romanticists indeed showed themselves very imitative even in their attempts at uniqueness, and the result was a second or third hand, or as one is tempted to say, a stale eccentricity.

  111. But the more the element of proportion in beauty is sacrificed to strangeness the more the result will seem to the normal man to be, not beauty at all, but rather an esoteric cult of ugliness.

  112. The old statesman was as keen as ever, receiving every day all sorts of deputations, advising, warning, encouraging, and quite confident as to the result of the elections.

  113. To touch the radioscope that was trained on Earth, would result in an instant change taking place in my body as it lay in the laboratory, and this would be disastrous.

  114. Taking my place in the forward part of the car, I was greatly relieved to find that my hand instinctively sought the levers, and operated them with a judicious care that could result only from long experience.

  115. Then, to my amazement, he said: "The result is what I fully expected.

  116. I now made a complete examination of all the batteries and coils of my instrument, as failure in any of these might result most seriously.


  117. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "result" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accomplishment; aftermath; answer; artifact; attend; calculation; child; coinage; composition; concoction; consequence; corollary; creation; creature; decoding; deduction; denouement; derivation; determination; develop; development; disentanglement; displace; distillate; distillation; effect; emanate; end; ensue; essence; event; eventuality; explanation; extract; fare; fate; finding; follow; fruit; handiwork; harvest; interpretation; invention; issue; judgement; legacy; manufacture; masterpiece; mintage; offshoot; offspring; opera; opus; originate; origination; outcome; outgrowth; output; overtake; precipitate; product; production; prove; purpose; ramification; reason; reflection; repercussion; replace; resolution; result; resultant; sequel; sequence; solution; solving; stem; succeed; terminate; termination; track; trail; transpire; turn; unfold; unraveling; untangling; upshot; whole; work; working; distillate; distillation; effect; emanate; end; ensue; essence; event; eventuality; explanation; extract; fare; fate; finding; follow; fruit; handiwork; harvest; interpretation; invention; issue; judgement; legacy; manufacture; masterpiece; mintage; offshoot; offspring; opera; opus; originate; origination; outcome; outgrowth; output; overtake; precipitate; product; production; prove; purpose; ramification; reason; reflection; repercussion; replace; resolution; result; resultant; sequel; sequence; solution; solving; stem; succeed; terminate; termination; track; trail; transpire; turn; unfold; unraveling; untangling; upshot; whole; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    result from; resulting from; results from