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Example sentences for "specifically"

Lexicographically close words:
speciem; specierum; species; specific; specifical; specification; specifications; specificity; specifick; specifics
  1. It failed, as its founders in the several synods had failed, in specifically determining the contents of this faith.

  2. I cannot doubt that it comes precisely and specifically within this requirement.

  3. To that I specifically reply, that the language of the statute is entirely inapplicable.

  4. This aid should now be specifically related to the building of their defenses.

  5. We will do that, at any rate, except where the recent amendments to the law specifically require us to give further price increases.

  6. The legislation continuing the use of food subsidies into the new fiscal year should be tied down specifically to certain standards.

  7. Taylor mentions this report, but Richards, who specifically says that he saw the prophet die, does not.

  8. The imports of margarine--that is, of margarine specifically declared to be such--into the United Kingdom are derived almost entirely from Holland.

  9. In dealing with the territories the powers of Congress are general or residuary in character, whereas when it legislates for that part of the country which has been erected into states, its powers are specifically enumerated.

  10. Melanesia is an indication that the two groups are specifically distinct.

  11. Laws specifically define the popular responsibilities and privileges which underlie the Principle of Democracy.

  12. It is also an unsettled point with naturalists, whether several North American birds ought to be ranked as specifically distinct from the corresponding European species.

  13. The fact of the pied birds being pursued and persecuted with much clamour by the other ravens of the island was the chief cause which led Bruennich to conclude that it was specifically distinct; but this is now known to be an error.

  14. Two humming-birds belonging to the genus Eustephanus, both beautifully coloured, inhabit the small island of Juan Fernandez, and have always been ranked as specifically distinct.

  15. Rather we tend to treat them as having equal rights with ourselves, the few specifically national rights excepted, and as having equal claims with our fellow citizens upon our considerate feeling and conduct towards them.

  16. He was too clear-headed to be able to bejuggle himself with the reasoning that he had not been guilty of falsehood because he had never specifically and in word denied the charge of the committee.

  17. This principle is specifically illustrated in the famous Walter Baker cases, of which a brief resumé is given in another chapter.

  18. In some of the states--New York, for example--there are state laws specifically forbidding such unauthorized reproduction.

  19. Article 33 of the Hague Regulations specifically enacts that a commander to whom a flag of truce is sent "may take all steps necessary to prevent the envoy taking advantage of his mission to obtain information.

  20. But even in the case of three the position will be usually found to be specifically stated, as would be the case with any other uneven number.

  21. The arms which in the grant are specifically said to be the arms of Lyons (not of Hamilton) are painted upon a lozenge, with no reference to the arms of Hamilton.

  22. And whilst one generation of a family has an affronte helmet and another using the same crest may have a profile one, it is useless to design crests specifically to fit the one or the other.

  23. When blazoned "proper" it is quite correct to make the legs and feet of the natural pinky colour, but it will be more usually found that a dove is specifically described as "legged gules.

  24. If the family were an untitled Scottish family entitled to supporters, these would descend to Mary unless they had been specifically granted with some other limitation.

  25. The armour is always represented as riveted plate armour unless it is specifically stated to be chain armour, as in the crest of Bathurst, or scale armour.

  26. If any other arrangement of the colours occurs it must be specifically detailed.

  27. Outside British heraldry a lion is always supposed to be rampant unless otherwise specifically described.

  28. Chapeaux, other than of gules lined ermine, are but rarely met with, and unless specifically blazoned to the contrary a cap of maintenance is always presumed to be gules and ermine.

  29. The shining of shoes is outside his ordinary duties, but he has no valid claim for compensation unless specifically requested to perform this service.

  30. It must, however, be specifically stated that Socialism does not involve the concentration of all wealth in the state.

  31. This is specifically true of the closing paragraph, which has been widely admired for its great beauty.

  32. For many years, specifically since 1848, the slave power had been masterful in Washington, while its despotic temper had grown continually more assertive.

  33. The government has had considerable success in attracting international support, specifically gaining the backing of the IMF and the World Bank in securing development assistance loans.

  34. The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of eventual unification - as well as domestic political and economic reform.

  35. Bales = a rod or scourge, and specifically a bow: at 6,a it is the minstrels who are charged to "lay on.

  36. I am informed by Mr. Rivers, whilst young, that they have been ranked by some authors as specifically distinct.

  37. It is so peculiar in many characters that some writers have considered it as specifically distinct; yet, as we now see, when crossed with the Spanish fowl, it yields offspring closely resembling the wild G.

  38. Metzger by culture converted the biennial or winter rape into the annual or summer rape,--varieties which have been thought by some authors to be specifically distinct.

  39. But the wild boars inhabiting these several countries differ so much from each other in external characters, that they have been ranked by some naturalists as specifically distinct.

  40. These hybrids were at one time thought to be specifically distinct, and were named G.

  41. Most botanists look at the garden-pea as specifically distinct from the field-pea (P.

  42. Still more surprising was the fact that most of the inhabitants of each separate island in this small archipelago were specifically different, though most closely related to each other.

  43. From their symmetrical marks, they were at first ranked as specifically distinct, and were provisionally named L.

  44. Another fastigiate oak is said to have been found wild in the Pyrenees, and this is a surprising circumstance; it generally comes so true by seed, that De Candolle considered it as specifically distinct.

  45. One may think of them as the cries attendant on the birth pangs of those aspects of Byron's character and personality which the world knows specifically as Byronism.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specifically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    completely; definitely; detail; distinctly; especially; exactly; explicit; expressly; fully; minutely; namely; notably; particular; particularly; precisely; purpose; separately; special; specifically; wholly