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Example sentences for "thoroughgoing"

Lexicographically close words:
thorough; thoroughbred; thoroughbreds; thoroughfare; thoroughfares; thoroughly; thoroughness; thoroughwort; thorow; thorowe
  1. We certainly expected a stronger adverse case than any which the thoroughgoing opposers of Darwin appear to have made out.

  2. He also believes, however, that these thoroughgoing conversions were less numerous in New Testament times than they had been before.

  3. In its thoroughgoing form this interpretation also is to be rejected.

  4. Thus, long before the Christian era, there had been a thoroughgoing identification of the gods of Greece with the gods of Rome.

  5. Charlemagne's interest in his villas, or private farms, was due therefore not less to his financial dependence upon them than to his personal liking for thrifty agriculture and thoroughgoing administration.

  6. In brief, any plan for judicial control meant the exclusion of rate regulation in any thoroughgoing way.

  7. In short, the Wisconsin plan provided for thoroughgoing administrative control, that is to say, with strict limitation of judicial review to the determination of points at law.

  8. The Commission declined to interfere in this case, anticipating the necessity for a thoroughgoing revision of all such rules which, it is obvious, almost invite manipulation of rates and improper discrimination.

  9. In reality it stands for a more thoroughgoing and consistent application of the test of experience.

  10. It is not alone in history, however, that New England's thoroughgoing admiration for herself has served to disturb the attainment of truth by the rising generation of Americans.

  11. They were reserved and did not dull their palms with entertainment of each new-hatch'd comrade, but when they did accept one it appeared to be a thoroughgoing performance.

  12. The qualities which the Prince has shown in the course of his youthful development, as well as his oath, are a pledge to me that he will be a thoroughgoing officer and a faithful servant of his Fatherland.

  13. He, unfortunately, departed from the standpoint of the thoroughgoing historian and Assyriologist and penetrated into the region of theological and religious conclusions and hypotheses, which were hazy and bold.

  14. Each judgment process means a new and more or less thoroughgoing redetermination of the self and hence a fixation of the ethical value of the conduct whose emergence as a purpose gave rise to the process.

  15. The truth is that there is constant interplay and interaction between the various phases of the inclusive judgment-process, or rather, more than this, that there is a complete and thoroughgoing mutual implication.

  16. This economic isolation of the United States was reflected in an equally thoroughgoing political isolation.

  17. The thoroughgoing way in which this stripping was accomplished is discussed in detail by J.

  18. That a comprehensive, thoroughgoing program of health education and physical education is absolutely needed for all boys and girls of elementary and secondary school age, both rural and urban, in every state in the Union.

  19. He detaches the Logos idea from its connexion with Stoic materialism and attaches it to a thoroughgoing Platonism.

  20. Drawing upon Gassendi for his psychological atomism and upon Hobbes for a thoroughgoing nominalism, he reproduces, as the logical conclusion from Locke's premises, the position of Antisthenes.

  21. Oscar Wilde's epigrams, and more particularly his fables, are examples of a thoroughgoing naturalist's insolent indifference to any form of restraint.

  22. When religion has thus acquired a clear-sighted and thoroughgoing indifference to the natural order, then, and then only, it begins to be potent within that order.

  23. But, as a matter of fact, it is as offensive to the thoroughgoing humanist as it is to the sincere religionist.

  24. Mrs Besant has told in her "Autobiography" how earnestly he impressed on her the need of the most thoroughgoing and ever-renewed preparation for the great work of instructing the people.

  25. The catching-up of these and their cooerdination with the new interest must in any event amount, as has been contended, to a thoroughgoing reorganization.

  26. It occupies the position of an emancipated empiricism or a thoroughgoing naive realism.

  27. It is where real and thoroughgoing change in the manner of life is hopeless that irregular intemperance of various sorts appears to bulk relatively largest as an economic evil.

  28. During the morning De Martens, Low, Holls, and myself had a very thoroughgoing discussion of the Russian, British, and American arbitration plans.

  29. He seemed uncertain whether it was best for Great Britain, under these circumstances, to support a thoroughgoing plan of arbitration; but, on the whole, seemed inclined to try it to some extent.

  30. This led to a curious proof that even in the thoroughgoing body that now constituted the Commons there was still a difference between most thoroughgoing and moderately thoroughgoing.

  31. Rymer came forward as a thoroughgoing exponent of classicism, and at the beginning of the next century Dennis, Gildon, and Addison carried on the discussion.

  32. Consequently, while the majority of eighteenth century tragedies retain some Elizabethan practices, there is not one of importance that is a thoroughgoing representative of the old methods and technic.

  33. We find here a thoroughgoing distinction between soul and body, which is quite Numenian, and dualistic.

  34. Nicene Creed, by the addition of the Filioque clause, became trinitarian in a thoroughgoing way; and not until fifty years later that Augustine, again in the West, fully expressed a philosophy and psychology of the trinity.

  35. Cornaro says that it was the neglect of hygienic laws which made him all but a dead man at thirty-seven, and that the thoroughgoing reform of his habits which he then effected made him a centenarian.

  36. In any evolutionary classification of governments the American system occupies an intermediate position between the old type of absolute monarchy on the one hand and thoroughgoing democracy on the other.

  37. Everywhere the movement toward democracy has been and is now being energetically resisted by those who fear that thoroughgoing popular government would deprive them of economic or political privileges which they now enjoy.

  38. It is safe to conclude that a large proportion of those who desired to see American independence established did not believe in thoroughgoing political democracy.

  39. The Hebrew found a more positive value in the emotional side of conduct, and at the same time worked out the conception of a sincere and thoroughgoing interest as lying at the very root of all right life.

  40. This process of constant readjustment is, however, far less thoroughgoing in its effects on mores than the three great methods of securing a broader organization of industry.

  41. As if these differences in attitude based on disposition and occupation were not enough, we have a thoroughgoing difference in the attitude of men and women toward the very institution which invites them.

  42. The most thoroughgoing is that parent and children really stand concretely for the two factors of continuity and individual variation which confront each other in so many forms.

  43. For a thoroughgoing presentation of the other side of the controversy, see, in addition to the works of Bousset and Reitzenstein, Loisy, Les mysteres paiens et le mystere chretien, 1919.

  44. The modern school of comparative religion is entirely correct in insisting upon the thoroughgoing supernaturalism of the Pauline gospel.

  45. Paulinism is a redemptive religion in the most thoroughgoing sense of the word; it finds salvation, not in a decision of the human will, but in an act of God.

  46. The thoroughgoing character of this helplessness suggests, however, some compensating power.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thoroughgoing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absolute; arrant; assiduous; black; born; classical; clean; clear; complete; comprehensive; congenital; consummate; crass; decided; definitive; detailed; diligent; downright; egregious; elaborate; exhaustive; flagrant; glaring; gross; industrious; infernal; intensive; intolerable; omnibus; omnipresent; operose; outright; painful; painstaking; perfect; pervasive; plain; plumb; positive; precious; profound; pronounced; proper; pure; radical; rank; regular; right; ruddy; sedulous; sheer; shocking; stark; straight; superlative; surpassing; sweeping; thorough; total; ubiquitous; unbearable; unconditional; unconscionable; undeniable; unequivocal; universal; unmitigated; unqualified; unrelieved; unreserved; unrestricted; unspoiled; utter; veritable; wholesale