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Example sentences for "speaking generally"

  • Speaking generally, there is nothing duller than a peasant or sharper than a savage.

  • Speaking generally, a hard life, when once we have become used to it, increases our pleasant experiences; an easy life prepares the way for innumerable unpleasant experiences.

  • But, speaking generally, man is not meant to remain a child.

  • Speaking generally, a certain degree of mental instability is a distinguishing feature of the patient with tic.

  • Speaking generally, the patient is directed to perform certain appropriate exercises under given conditions.

  • Speaking generally, we thought the cases closely resembled those in which a long-standing mental torticollis is accompanied with convulsive movements of the limbs.

  • Speaking generally, it may be said that downward movements of the arms are less good than upward ones, and that their synchronous and symmetrical action is accomplished with greater ease than is the operation of one only.

  • Speaking generally, they are, as would follow from optical considerations, conspicuously darker when viewed near the terminator, or when the sun is either rising or setting upon them, than under a more vertical angle of illumination.

  • Speaking generally, a very minute and brilliant crater is located at the end of the streak nearest the radiant point, the streak spreading out and becoming fainter towards the other end.

  • Finally, speaking generally, not only is more time than is necessary spent on squadron drill, but also more than is advantageous.

  • Speaking generally, however, such exercises do not need to be extended materially beyond the limit which can be attained by horses not specifically trained to galloping under full marching order weights.

  • And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established.

  • And, speaking generally, I agree with you, he said.

  • And can the just by justice make men unjust, or speaking generally, can the good by virtue make them bad?

  • Are not the chief elements of temperance, speaking generally, obedience to commanders and self-control in sensual pleasures?

  • Speaking generally, the land of India belongs to village communities in which every family has its right.

  • Has not Herbert Spencer himself assured us that, "Speaking generally, the religion current in each age and among each people has been as near an approximation to the truth as it was then and there possible for men to receive.

  • Some are inclined to sneer at biographies, and to say that, speaking generally, they set forward only the good part of the character of their subjects, omitting all that is faulty.

  • Speaking generally, therefore, he did not expose himself more than he could help.

  • Speaking generally, slavery exists now only in Mohammedan countries (though there are a few exceptions), yet it cannot be called a Mohammedan institution.

  • It is certainly not putting it too strongly to say that the judicial body, speaking generally, did not love the Workmen's Compensation Act.

  • Speaking generally, it is not the most desirable class of trader that makes use of the debt-collecting system of the County Court.

  • Speaking generally, this is quite as it should be, and yet it appears to be rather the satisfaction of external necessities, because such wants are found without being developed out of the Idea of mind itself.

  • Aristotle concludes the seventh chapter with the words: “Speaking generally, the understanding is the faculty which thinks things in their real activity.

  • We will not just now enter into the controversy how far such objects can justly have the attribute of beauty ascribed to them, or how far, speaking generally, natural beauty ought to be recognized as existing besides artistic beauty.

  • Speaking generally, the inference is correct; but very few of the entozoa hitherto found in marsupials correspond, as species, with those infesting man and non-pouched mammalia.

  • Speaking generally, their number decreases with the distance from the abdomen, being, however, more numerous in the anterior half of the body.

  • Speaking generally, the purer the medium into which the ova are transferred, the more rapid will be the movements of the larvæ.

  • Speaking generally, Belgium will probably consume less food than ordinarily, wear less clothes, and consume less luxuries.

  • Speaking generally, the trade union movement as a whole will emerge from the war in straitened circumstances.

  • Speaking generally, industries whose products were required for the army and navy were strained to the extent of their resources.

  • Footnote 1: Speaking generally, it cannot be said that the trade unions faced the crisis with either wisdom or courage.

  • Again and again, they sought his counsel; and, speaking generally, he had always shewn them kindness.

  • Speaking generally, to the churches of the land might have been appropriately applied the language once addressed to the church in Sardis: "I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

  • Speaking generally, these truths, until recently, had been forgotten, and were not preached in the churches and chapels of England.

  • Speaking generally, the churches of the land were sunk into apathy and worldliness, and the people, with few exceptions, were not only regardless of religion, but saturated with infidelity and wickedness.

  • But, speaking generally, the world is still young and growing, and a considerable portion of it unfinished.

  • Speaking generally, the diary has become a sort of fetich, the authority of which ought to be overthrown.

  • Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books?

  • Speaking generally, the older the culture, the more marked is the variation.

  • There is little fear, speaking generally, of the plague ever flourishing under Western civilisation, where the conditions are such that even when it appears there is little to encourage or favour its development.

  • Speaking generally, we may say that they taught the moral goodness of private ownership without insisting upon its necessity.

  • Speaking generally, then, we may say that the capitalist's gain is the consumer's loss, and the question of the justice of interest is a question between the capitalist and the consumer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asked you; became more and more; came away; cavalry regiment; first mortgage; hath given; highway robbery; historical composition; intestinal canal; poor beggar; powdered alum; rough weather; small band; speaking broadly; speaking countries; speaking generally; speaking minorities; speaking peoples; speaking race; speaking races; speaking slowly; speaking thus; speaking very; speaking world; waterborne diseases; with water