The result being that to raise on farms the food for a million men, women and children, a greatly reduced staff in the field suffices to-day in comparison with the number required thirty or forty years ago.
Steinheil showed that a single wire suffices if its terminals are soldered into plates buried in the ground.
This and similar expressions might lead one to suppose that Mozart had neglected composition during these years, but a survey of the works which are known to us suffices to dispel this idea.
Christ are infinite and that His satisfaction suffices to blot out all the sins of the world, and thus they, too, hold the Bible doctrine of the appropriation of Christ’s merits by means of their own good works (1 Peter i.
The bursting charge is very small, but it suffices to break the shell into about 30 pieces, which pursue their forward course without too much dispersion.
The mere malice of the intention suffices to make the will evil: and therefore too, the will is as evil as the intention is evil.
This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.
The desire of the separated soul is entirely at rest, as regards the thing desired; since, to wit, it has that which suffices its appetite.
A lesser cause suffices to hinder the use of reason, than to destroy life: since we observe that many ailments deprive one of the use of reason, before depriving one of life.
If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments": whence it seems to follow that the observance of the commandments suffices for entrance into life.
When that which conduces to an end is sufficient to conduce thereto, then one such thing suffices for one end: thus one remedy, if it be efficacious, sufficessometimes to restore men to health, and then the remedy needs not to be repeated.
For when one thing suffices for a certain purpose, it is superfluous to employ others.
This suffices for the Replies to the Second and Third Objections.
Further, one conclusion sufficesboth for an act and for a habit of scientific knowledge.
Consequently that which suffices for the perfection of human law, viz.
This sufficesfor the Reply to the Second Objection.
But the very nature of the will suffices for it to be directed naturally to the end, both as to the intention of the end and as to its conformity with the end.
A very little consideration suffices to show that there is something quite incomprehensible in the public ministry of Jesus taken as a whole.
It is surprising what little knowledge suffices to warrant writing about theological matters in the name of "objective research.
The natural light of his intellect, further illuminated by grace, suffices to give him a true intellectual certainty of his faith, based upon these motives and similar ones, even without scientific studies.
The mere appeal to this infallible being suffices to settle all problems, to silence every contradiction; woe to him who dares open his profane mouth to utter an If or a But!
It suffices our present purpose to consider Poetry as the sort of thing the poets write.
But for our purpose it suffices that in our literature we possess a number of works to which the title of classic cannot be refused.
To be convinced of this truth, it suffices to observe that the pretended magicians are, and ever have been, anything but learned; on the contrary, they are very ignorant and illiterate men.
One alone suffices to render evident the truth of the catholic dogmas.
This suffices to supply heat to the piki stone and the boiling pot, and enough to keep a fire on the hearth in the kiva.
After this it suffices merely to grant freedom to the child's genius in order that it may take its own flight.
In his exercises with the square and cube of the numbers he easily will discover that to multiply by ten it suffices to change the position of the figures--that is to say, to add a zero.
In spite of this spontaneity and independence, which we may thus attribute to the antagonistic impulse, there still remains the question whether it suffices to account for the total phenomena of hostility.
Short as this analysis is, it suffices to show that this complex is not identical with that which rests on sentiments of sympathy which have their source in mere likeness.
It suffices to state here that the object throughout is to secure uniformity by allowing both the work and the tool to rotate, and exercising no pressure by the fingers.
Then turn down the oxygen till it only suffices to clear the smoky flame, and commence to heat the proposed joint by a current of hot air, moving the flame round the joint.
The method of treatment above described suffices to render coils of manganin constant for at least a year (in 1892 the tests had only been made for this time) within a few thousands per cent.
A drop of rouge and about three drops of water are put on the plate, and with the soft polisher about one minute suffices to clean up all the scratches and leave a beautiful black polish on the metal.
By this arrangement the effective heating surface is greatly increased; and the passages being large, natural draught generally suffices to maintain proper combustion.
The levity of the gas, in conjunction with weights attached to the ends of chains working over pulleys on the framework surrounding the holder, suffices to raise the holder.
The spark is intensely hot, and suffices to ignite the compressed charge in the cylinder.
So long as the internal heat suffices to keep the body fluid, the liquid itself sees to it that all interstices are filled.
Very little telescopic aid suffices to disclose the Martian polar phenomena in this their more salient characteristics and convince an observer of their likeness to those of the earth.
The amount of devotion manifested by these people is very small; the most trifling circumstance suffices to distract their attention.
The veriest trifle suffices to breed a quarrel among old or young, and then they kick one another with their feet--a very graceful practice for women or girls!
It is not high, and half an hour suffices the traveller to reach its summit, which is crowned by a spacious and beautiful convent, probably the handsomest in all Palestine, not even excepting the monasteries at Nazareth and Jerusalem.
It is characteristic of a state of frictionless mechanical equilibrium that an indefinitely small difference of pressure suffices to upset the equilibrium and reverse the motion.
Similarly in thermal equilibrium between bodies at the same temperature, an indefinitely small difference of temperature suffices to reverse the transfer of heat.
But higher up every thousand feet of elevation sufficesto prolong appreciably the life of the snowy cover.
But not pressing these questions, it suffices to point out the necessary implication that changed functions of organs do, in some way or other, register themselves in changed proclivities of the reproductive elements.
The one case of the division of labour suffices to prove this.
It suffices that molecular unions, either between atoms of the same kind or between atoms of different kinds, will finally take place.
On this unity of mineral character it is, that this Scottish formation is concluded to be contemporaneous with the lowest formations in Wales; for the scanty paleontological evidence suffices for neither proof nor disproof.
My salary suffices only to pay my semi-annual rent, after which there remains only a few hundred florins.
This trait suffices to show you why I often prefer foreign publishers to local; I love straightforwardness and uprightness and am of the opinion that the artist ought not to be belittled, for alas!
For aesthetics it suffices that they do move us; to all further inquisition of the tedious and stupid it can be replied that, however queer these things may be, they are no queerer than anything else in this incredibly queer universe.
The state of mind of a person in love or rapt in contemplation suffices in itself.
This alone suffices to make it nugatory; it is worse than nugatory because the emotion it suggests is false.
Sometimes the image takes a green color; it suffices then to wash the proof in water rendered alkaline by a few drops of aqueous ammonia to obtain the normal color.
To fix, it suffices to wash in water, renewed three or four times.
Pyrogallol 5 parts Water 500 parts After the development, which requires but a few moments, it suffices to wash the material to fix the image by eliminating the soluble compounds.
To strip off it sufficesto imbue the paper with alcohol in order to dissolve the shellac.
Light decolors it rapidly, and ten or twelve minutes’ exposure through a positive cliché suffices to well impress it, that is, to reduce in the whites the iron perchloride to the state of protochloride.
To that effect it sufficesto draw with lithographic ink, then to cover the paper with aniline brown, and, after drying, to wash it with turpentine oil which dissolves the lithographic ink without altering the aniline.
A certain temperature must be attained, and that temperature suffices in complete darkness.
No fixing is necessary; it suffices to wash in several changes of waters.
To obtain the black tone it suffices to immerse the proof on its removal from the ammoniacal in a solution of tannin at 5 per 100 of water, and when toned, to wash it in a few changes of water.
Again, the correct delineation of the projection of a regular geometrical figure, as a cube, suffices to give the eye a sense of relief.
First in rank and potency is the far-famed attar-gûl, of which one pure drop suffices to scent for years the stuff on which it is poured.
This is considered a frightful indignity, and one which, when seriously threatened, usually suffices to still the veriest shrew.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
