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Example sentences for "safeguard"

Lexicographically close words:
saevit; saevus; safari; safe; safegard; safeguarded; safeguarding; safeguards; safekeeping; safelie
  1. The man who has a sweet smell will be worthier and better able to safeguard his honour than he whose bodily odour is disgusting.

  2. The spiritual nature is no safeguard against error of doctrine or practice; indeed it may be doubted whether a majority of all the spiritual natures in the world would be found in Christian countries.

  3. Education, religious, moral, intellectual, is the only safeguard against so fearful a future.

  4. It was written soon after we had the definite information on the Wednesday that ice warnings had been sent to the Titanic, and when we all felt that something must be done to awaken public opinion to safeguard ocean travel in the future.

  5. All things considered, lifeboats might be the poorest sort of safeguard in certain conditions.

  6. It is an additional safeguard that no ship can afford to be without.

  7. And his truthfulness is that inner lucidity which cannot be self-deceived, the spirit which is a safeguard against fanaticism and hypocrisy, the sunlike warmth of intelligence without which the heart is a darkness full of unclean things.

  8. And that this--which essentially bids us look at an act in the whole of its relations and context--is a safeguard against some forms of moral evil, is certain.

  9. Popular government has demonstrated in its one hundred and twenty-four years of trial here its stability and security, and its efficiency as the best instrument of national development and the best safeguard to human rights.

  10. We could not have considered any proposition for the abrogation of the tripartite control which did not confirm us in all our rights and safeguard all our national interests in the islands.

  11. Let these be overthrown or abandoned, and I know no adequate safeguard against an outrageous oppression of the freedman, which will be Slavery under another name.

  12. When set up for the safeguard of the weak, they are respectable, but on impeachments they are intolerable.

  13. So supreme is this, that it is placed under the safeguard of an oath.

  14. Newman Hall; or it may be some merchant here on business, guiltless of any wrong and under the constant safeguard of the Public Faith.

  15. The direct responsibility of the mayor and councilmen to the citizens will be a safeguard for the increased power given to them.

  16. Will the direct responsibility of the mayor and councilors to the citizens be a sufficient safeguard for the increased power given to them?

  17. Although it is urged that the corrupt element in politics would have unlimited power if they should capture the commission, yet the direct responsibility to the citizens will be a safeguard for the enlarged power, for A'.

  18. Does admission by certificate provide sufficient safeguard for the standards of the college?

  19. A predicate wholly single is a safeguard against meaning two assertions.

  20. Only he came to my sitting-room every morning, as if kneeling with me a few moments, and reading a few short verses, were to be his safeguard for the day, and sometimes he would ask me a question.

  21. My safeguard of an unbroken word is gone!

  22. The fairies were wont to take away infants and their mothers, and many precautions were taken to safeguard them till purification and baptism took place, when the fairy power became ineffective.

  23. We do little to secure to a man a decent privacy, or to safeguard his personal dignity.

  24. They are a safeguard against those utopian schemes which would shatter our world and try experiments in creation out of nothing.

  25. This gliding without motive power is a safeguard to the airman when he flies across country.

  26. To safeguard himself still further he fitted below his machine a shock absorber, which came into contact with the ground first and lessened the force of any impact.

  27. Bradlaugh had the experience of helping to safeguard the peer from the prosecution laid against himself.

  28. In the interval, however, between the payment of the sums by the depositors and the second payment by the trustees, no safeguard was provided beyond the vigilance of the same voluntary and unpaid trustees.

  29. It was a safeguard such as was wanted in Ireland, and it answered admirably.

  30. Nowhere are more tremendous passages written than in this book about the corruptions of that Christianity which yet the writer holds to be the one hope and safeguard of mankind.

  31. But these negative statements only safeguard against mistakes by telling us what to avoid.

  32. Though the discussion of this may be a possible digression, it seems necessary in order to safeguard nurture from a mistake.

  33. Wire masks were the only safeguard from the showers of bullets which everywhere were projected from the small tin scoops.

  34. The reactionary elements would have been only too pleased to see our backs; our presence was a safeguard against the absolutism for which some of them scheme.

  35. In revolutions every rule and safeguard of society is uprooted; the people feel as in an earthquake, nothing is secure, everyone doubts his neighbour.

  36. The whole village, enthusiastic at his resistance, was ready to back up their pastor and to risk anything, for they looked upon that silent protest as the safeguard of the national honor.

  37. These ask only to safeguard appearances as much as possible, and they are satisfied.

  38. They are literally a husbanding of resources, a safeguard against later unprofitable but compulsory expenditure, a repair in the social organism which, like the repair of a leaky roof, may avert disaster.

  39. The city of Boston was right in inscribing on its public library the motto: "The commonwealth requires the education of the people as the safeguard of order and liberty.

  40. Marriage in the early twenties is not only an important safeguard against unchastity; it is physiologically better for the woman and her offspring.

  41. Not only from humanitarian motives, but also from regard for national prosperity and virility, it behooves the State to wage war against preventable illness and safeguard the general health.

  42. This method of checks and counter-checks was thought necessary as a safeguard against tyranny, the bugbear of our forefathers, but is now the enemy of efficiency and the haunt of corruption.

  43. He then continued:-- And yet, when I simply insisted upon some additional safeguard against the return of Rebels to power, the Senator told us that I was asking something new.

  44. For this great safeguard I ask your votes.

  45. It was, that the bill failed in safeguard against Rebels.

  46. I simply ask a new safeguard for the future, that these States, through which so much trouble has come, may be a strength and a blessing to our common country, with prosperity and happiness everywhere within their borders.

  47. Follow this text in its natural and obvious requirements, and you will have security, peace, and liberty under the safeguard of that great guaranty, the Equal Rights of All.

  48. I would do as much as possible, believing that all we do in the nature of safeguard must redound to the good of all and to the national fame.

  49. Fontaine recommended to them that a fort should be built there, when 'it would be a great place for the settlement of French Refugees, and would also prove a safeguard to the commerce of the whole kingdom.

  50. How to prevent and safeguard any ship from such an attempt by day or night.

  51. I have found my reverence for other souls a perfect safeguard against any approach to impurity.

  52. These figures cannot give any clue to the relative extent of inversion in various occupations, but they indicate that no class of occupation furnishes a safeguard against inversion.

  53. The Council’s first reforming decree also seeks to safeguard the treasure of Holy Scripture by forbidding any profanation of it or its use for superstitious purposes.

  54. He also admitted, that, at the outset, he had said things which the Antinomians now urged against the Law, though he also strove to show that he had taken pains to qualify and safeguard what he had said.

  55. Let tyrants fear: I have always so behaved myself, that under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects.

  56. Three-coloured ribbons were extended across the street, and this frail barrier was found sufficient to intimate that the Temple was under the safeguard of the nation.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "safeguard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.