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Example sentences for "the supreme"

  • But the charge of highway robbery, which bore a singular resemblance to the final catastrophe in Queensland, he resisted to the utmost, and showed that his experience in the Supreme Court at Dunedin had not been lost on him.

  • Employment must be given to all the forces within the space of the supreme decision, and every reserve (active force available) which is only intended for use after that decision is opposed to common sense.

  • By one theoretical school an attempt was made to systematise another material element also, by making the subsistence of troops, according to a previously established organism of the Army, the supreme legislator in the higher conduct of War.

  • Convinced at length of the death of Commodus, he accepted the purple with a sincere reluctance, the natural effect of his knowledge both of the duties and of the dangers of the supreme rank.

  • Their municipal corporations, formed after the perfect model of the capital, * were intrusted, under the immediate eye of the supreme power, with the execution of the laws.

  • The general control of the finances was intrusted to their care; and though they seldom had leisure to administer justice in person, they were considered as the supreme guardians of law, equity, and the public peace.

  • The letters of the new princes were modest and respectful, excusing the necessity which had obliged them to accept the Imperial title; but submitting their election and their fate to the supreme judgment of the senate.

  • We shall proceed on the assumption that freedom is the supreme aim of a good social system; but on this very basis we shall find the Anarchist contentions very questionable.

  • Liberty is the supreme good in the Anarchist creed, and liberty is sought by the direct road of abolishing all forcible control over the individual by the community.

  • It is the individual in whom all that is good must be realized, and the free growth of the individual must be the supreme end of a political system which is to re-fashion the world.

  • Has it done it without asserting the General government as the supreme, central, or national government?

  • The division of the supreme powers of government between the States in their united capacity and the States in their individual capacities.

  • Logic and historical facts are here, as elsewhere, coincident, for creation and providence are simply the expression of the Supreme Logic, the Logos, by whom all things are made.

  • These pontiffs acknowledged, in their turn, the supreme jurisdiction of the metropolitans or high priests of the province, who acted as the immediate vicegerents of the emperor himself.

  • One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

  • A Scripture name of the Supreme Being, by which he was revealed to the Jews as their covenant God or Sovereign of the theocracy; the "ineffable name" of the Supreme Being, which was not pronounced by the Jews.

  • An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.

  • Alas, the supreme scoundrel, alike with the supreme hero, is very far from being known.

  • Some rigid Calvinists had from the doctrine of reprobation drawn the consequence that to pray for any person who had been predestined to perdition was an act of mutiny against the eternal decrees of the Supreme Being.

  • The old Speaker and a quorum of the old members came together, and were proclaimed, amidst the scarcely stifled derision and execration of the whole nation, the supreme power in the commonwealth.

  • Then she spoke of a vacancy in the Supreme Court--she knows the Keeper of the Seals.

  • At the third stage they are brought before a bench of twelve councillors, and in case of any error or informality the prisoner committed for trial at the Assizes may appeal for protection to the Supreme court.

  • It was not merely simony; it was as to who should be the supreme master of Germany and Italy, the emperor or the pope.

  • His paramount obligations as an archbishop were, according to all the ideas of his age, to the supreme pontiff of Christendom.

  • He was a man whom everybody loved and trusted, yet one not unmindful of his duties as the supreme ruler of his abbey, enforcing discipline, while favoring relaxation.

  • They indeed owned their allegiance to the Pope, as the supreme head of the Church, but their fealty was becoming a mockery.

  • The supreme miseries of the people led them to political revolts and insurrections,--blind but fierce movements, not inspired by ideas of liberty, but by a sense of oppression and degradation.

  • Would it forgive him who had overturned the consecrated altars, displaced the ritual of a thousand years, and revolted from the authority of the supreme head of the Christian world?

  • Thus was born the second great idea of the Reformation,--the supreme authority of the Scriptures, to which Protestants of every denomination have since professed to cling.

  • Russia entrusted to you, O Tsar, the supreme power, and you were as a God upon earth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sitting posture; the age; the constitution; the deep; the heaven; the length; the man; the next; the old; the salt; thee good; then drop; then goes; then indeed; then looking; then returned; then rinse; then sent; then shall; then took; then verily; then will; there has; there must; these laws; whether thou