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Example sentences for "retention"

Lexicographically close words:
reteined; reteining; retell; retelling; retenir; retentive; retentiveness; retenu; reth; retiarius
  1. Hence, to its power of prostrating the muscular energy, it owes its efficacy in preventing retention of urine.

  2. This defect may be due to the retention of at least one alto trombone, whereas the Germans now use either three tenor trombones, or two tenor and one bass.

  3. Now the anaerobic bacteria are supplied along with the sewage, and the retention of their services offers practically no difficulty as long as an ample allowance of space and time is given them in which to carry on their labours.

  4. The retention of the Republican form of Government in China will be a great future obstacle in the way of a Chino-Japanese Alliance.

  5. This extraordinary growth was produced wholly by the retention of the rain-water in the ditches, whence it filtered through the whole soil and supplied moisture to the roots of the trees.

  6. The retention of the surface-waters upon or in the soil can hardly be accomplished except by the methods already mentioned, replanting of forests, and furrowing or terracing.

  7. Lastly the commission should consider the working of the franchise and the constitution of electorates, including the important matter of the retention of communal representation.

  8. If employed with hospitals, depots of mounted units, and as clerks, et cetera, they may be retained after termination of hostilities until services can be dispensed with, but such retention shall in no case exceed six months.

  9. At the final session of the conference she renounced her claim to the island of Crete, and promised to rectify her Thracian frontier, but insisted upon the retention of Adrianople.

  10. This, likewise, is something unheard of in the normal presentation course, where it is above all a question of selection and retention of the "proper" presentation element.

  11. It would rather seem that as we learn to control our impulses by intellectual activity, we more and more reject as vain the formation or retention of such intense wishes as are natural to childhood.

  12. It is simply this," said Mobbles; "is he eligible for retention or merely available for release?

  13. X staying if retained, but available to go if eligible; also eligible for retention if available.

  14. The two extremes, heat and cold, may be the causes of retention and detention.

  15. State if you know if any such ligation would cause swelling by retention of blood in the spleen, liver, kidneys or other organs of the abdomen and pelvis?

  16. Only in the retention of the county court were O'Conor's views sustained; and this came largely through the influence of Arphaxed Loomis, the material part of whose amendment was ultimately adopted.

  17. Martin Van Buren, who figured as a sort of peacemaker, proposed the retention of the Chancery and Supreme Courts, and the creation of circuit judges.

  18. It was commonly believed at the time, therefore, that a desire to please Clinton and possibly to gain the favour of Federalists in the event of their future success, influenced him to support Platt, conditional on the retention of Clinton.

  19. They have always opposed the introduction of new ideas, and have fought for the retention of old ones.

  20. From the point of view of citizenship the retention of religion in State schools is a manifest injustice.

  21. Where the belief in the Christian after-life really exists, the retention of a conviction of the saving power of Christianity is a condition of sanity.

  22. The debate which followed, however, clearly showed that the majority in the upper House were in reality fighting, not for more information, but for the retention of the purchase system.

  23. Is it attributable to the action of the Establishment principle--to the retention of Parliamentary grants, or to the multiplication of political privileges?

  24. The possession of these feathery garments was essential to their retention of the power of transformation.

  25. But the English government became convinced that the Indian trade demanded the retention of the Northwest, and she did in fact hold her posts there in spite of the treaty of peace.

  26. The needs of the central government lead to its retention of the more profitable modes of procuring revenue.

  27. The reader should remark the retention of this and other documents by Bourrienne, which forms one of the charges brought against him farther on.

  28. In the end this retention of the forests was used by Napoleon with great dexterity as a means of placing them under personal obligation to him for restoring this species of property.

  29. Those who accomplish most, however, compare favorably with others in length of days and retention of health.

  30. If the retention and increase depend on individual production, they will respond to the compulsion.

  31. There have been three cases of prolonged retention of the dead in rooms occupied as living and sleeping rooms.

  32. Liddell, whose recent statement has even attracted Parliamentary attention and led to a question in the House: Prolonged Retention of a Dead Body in a Room occupied by a Family.

  33. Prolonged Retention op a Dead Body in a Room occupied by a Family.

  34. The retention of the surface waters upon or in the soil can hardly be accomplished except by the methods already mentioned, replanting of forests, and furrowing or terracing.

  35. This extraordinary growth was produced wholly by the retention of the rain water in the ditches, whence it filtered through the whole soil and supplied moisture to the roots of the trees.

  36. A deadly fire from the neighboring forts made the retention of the southwest peak impossible for the gallant men who had won it.

  37. The retention by Russia of that portion of the railroad line through northern Manchuria connecting the Transsiberian road with Vladivostock.

  38. But it is difficult to attribute the refusal of the House of Commons to sanction William's retention of his body-guard to any worthier motive than mere jealousy of the foreigner.

  39. This Ridge, rising sixty feet above the city, covered the main line of communication to the Punjab, upon the retention of which our very existence as a force depended.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retention" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnegation; consistency; declension; declination; declining; denial; deprivation; disagreement; disclaimer; disobedience; dissent; holding; inhibition; keeping; maintenance; memory; nay; negation; negative; obstinacy; persistence; prehension; preservation; recantation; rejection; repression; repudiation; retention; stubbornness; suppression; tenacity; tightness; toughness; viscosity