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Example sentences for "set aside"

  • They may be powerless to produce conviction in some now, as they were powerless to produce conviction in some then: but they cannot be set aside by an insinuation.

  • And this statement, as it has never yet been found untrue, so am I unable to anticipate by what possible evidence it can ever be set aside as false.

  • Again, it is not to be denied that the theory of the Semitic origin of the cuneiform writing encounters obstacles that cannot easily be set aside.

  • The story forms the point of departure, but its original purport is set aside to a greater or less degree, necessary modifications are introduced, and the moral or lesson is distinctly indicated.

  • Allatu could not be set aside, for the belief in her power was too strongly imbedded in the popular mind; but a male consort could be given her who might rule with her.

  • On the other hand, Anshar could not be set aside, for he survived in popular tradition.

  • Those of the antients, who considered the matter more carefully, have made no scruple to set aside their [553]pretensions.

  • All the common departments of the Deities are to be set aside, as inconsistent and idle.

  • To all which I repeatedly made answer; that it was by no means my intention to set aside any of the writers, he mentioned: whose merits, as far as they extended, I held in great veneration.

  • In a scientific lecture the senses are altogether set aside; in an aesthetic address it is wished to interest them.

  • Their opposition is as old as the beginning of culture, and till its end can hardly be set aside, save in the individual.

  • What bold impiety, therefore, did it seem, even to men of liberal and enlightened minds, for any one to rise up and assert that all this testimony of the Bible and of the senses was to be set aside!

  • God has subjected the world to the government of laws, and he will not interfere with, counteract, set aside, or give a supernatural force to those laws, to meet particular exigencies.

  • The mass of evidence in favor of the divine inspiration of the Bible is too great to be set aside by any thing short of scientific demonstration.

  • And hence, it seems to me, the language of the prophet should not be allowed to set aside, or modify, the plain meaning of the apostle.

  • Common sense allies itself with reason, in order to make that selection of ideas which personal interest can either set aside entirely or modify by illogical inference.

  • It is the habit of reasoning to determine that which it is wise to undertake, thus permitting us to judge what should be set aside.

  • The material is neither red nor green; orange and violet must be set aside, as well as all the subordinate shades.

  • The simplest and perhaps the only one likely to be successful I set aside without a moment's hesitation.

  • Every day we set aside a portion of the dried meat and biscuit which formed the chief part of our food, until at last we had as much as could be carried easily.

  • But," I exclaimed, striving to appear calm, "that will be set aside now.

  • In the case of reserve life insurance a considerable part of what is not returned is, however, set aside as reserve virtually held in trust for the policyholders.

  • Absolutely nothing, unless thereby its [honesty] truthfulness can be set aside.

  • And there were a thousand things which you already had, to be packed, and as many more to be set aside, to be destroyed, or sold, or given away.

  • And I had so many things to set aside, that I came to look with suspicion on almost all my creed.

  • There is that to which we are bound of necessity, for instance to love God, and so forth: and by no means may such a good be set aside on account of obedience.

  • For there is in man a natural inclination to set aside a certain time for each necessary thing, such as refreshment of the body, sleep, and so forth.

  • Therefore obedience, for whose sake the good of other virtues is set aside, is better than other virtues.

  • If what has been done has any force at all, it can easily be set aside by law.

  • A man with a bottle of spirits might prove to be an angel of mercy, a being of beneficence, and if he would share with a craving fellow-being his rare good fortune, why should not all feelings of disapprobation be set aside?

  • There were formalities which should not be set aside.

  • For the purposes of the present investigation, however, the whole story must be set aside.

  • The old theory that God desired to test our faith, and that there would be no merit in believing if the evidence were such as to commend itself at once to our understanding, is one which need only be stated to be set aside.

  • Set aside to raise for two hours and then pull the sides down to the centre of the dough and punch down.

  • Set aside to mould and then serve with fruit whip.

  • Beat to thoroughly mix and then cover and set aside overnight to rise.

  • Set aside to cool and then ice with water icing.

  • Well, sir, all these proceedings can be, and must be set aside.

  • Your letters of administration will be set aside, as a matter of course, even should you presume to oppose us,--which I should hardly think advisable.

  • Dear child, your Ich would be set aside by living to others, who only seek to make you happier.

  • She did not think Mervyn in earnest, nor suppose that he would encumber himself with a companion who could not be set aside like a governess, and was of an age more 'proper' and efficient than agreeable.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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