A civil war breaks the bonds of society and Government, or at least suspends their force and effect; it produces in the nation two independent parties, who consider each other as enemies, and acknowledge no common judge.
Clause of section 293: "A civil war breaks the bands of society and government, or at least it suspends their force and effect.
It suspends its nest in a slender horizontal fork at 10 feet or more from the ground, and appears, like its frequent neighbour Dicrurus longicaudatus, to prefer a bamboo-clump to breed in.
He suspends his strokes at hearing exclamations above; then screams in the shrill treble of female voices.
At sight of Crozier hesuspends the deal, his face suddenly turning pale, while a spark of angry light flashes forth from his eyes.
The priest lights two more lanterns, and suspends them upon hooks attached to a pair of pendent ropes about a yard apart; then he pulls up both together slowly.
The ropes are passed at each end over an iron eye, the upper one of which is hitched over a hook on the cross bar, and the other receives the hook which suspends the bar.
The stimulus of conversation suspends the terror that haunts my mind; but when I am alone, the horrors I have suffered from laudanum, the degradation, the blighted utility, almost overwhelm me.
The savage man Suspends his stroke; he looks astonished round; No human hand is near: .
The Swiss veto has the same effect, as it suspends legislation only when opposed by a majority of the whole electoral body, not by a majority of those who actually vote upon it.
Though he never suspends the severity of his moral judgment in consideration of the purpose or the result, yet he is induced by a variety of arguments to mitigate its rigour.
Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded upon us by Authors ancient and modern, that an Adamant or Diamond prevents or suspends the attraction of the Loadstone: as is in open terms delivered by Pliny.
If we ask the Agnostic whether he suspends judgment concerning the existence of the gods of any savage peoples, the reply is in the negative.
Streets cross at right angles, and at every corner stands a lamp-post rudely made from jungle wood, from which suspends a lantern ingeniously fashioned from an American petroleum tin.
Each diver's attendant has charge of two ropes slung over a railing above the side of the boat: one suspends the diving-stone, and the other a wide-mouthed basket of network.
The Philosopher, to improve this Hint, suspends different Weights by Strings of the same Bigness, and found in like manner that the Sounds answered to the Weights.
If one House suspends its session, the other House shall do likewise during the same period.
He concluded that alcohol entirelysuspends the transformation of food while it remains in the stomach.
The fundamental law to which we refer is, that all vital phenomena are accompanied by, and dependent upon, molecular or atomic changes; and whatever retards these retards the phenomena of life; whatever suspends these suspends life.
Executed in the same manner as fire at will, except that each man, after having exhausted the cartridges then in the rifle, suspends firing.
His poets wrote about him: The lord of lone splendour an instant suspends His course at mid-noon, ere he westward descends; And brief are the moments our young monarch knows, Devoted to pleasure or paid to repose!
The pictur'd fane of Tell suspends his oar; Confused the Marathonian tale appears, 350 While burn in his full eyes the glorious tears.
The pictured fane of Tell suspends his oar; Confused the Marathonian tale appears, While his eyes sparkle with heroic tears.
Father of family finds things bad,--freezes, orsuspends animation of family, and puts them on shelves until times mend.
Man has wife who makes things unpleasant at home,--freezes or suspends his animation till she comes round.
Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
An Isthmian victor suspends his bit, bridle, spurs, and whip to Poseidon.
Withered crowns and revel-cups are laid upon the shrine of Lais; Anchises suspends his white hair to Aphrodite, Endymion his bed and coverlet to Artemis, Daphnis his club to Pan.
This flask he then suspends from his kitchen roof above the itaka frame or hanging-shelf that in almost all kitchens is placed above the fire-hearth.
This horn hesuspends by a string from his neck or shoulder whenever he takes it with him on a journey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
