Sovereignty is one, and vests not in the General government or in the State government, but in the United States, and allegiance is due to the United States, and to them alone.
The argument is conclusive, and the defence complete, if the Union is only a firm or copartnership, and the sovereignty vests in the States severally.
Piatte took longer to strip, having a couple of flannel shirts and three heavy vests to remove.
The family is patriarchal, women and children are in strict tutelage, and discretion vests in the male head alone.
This information and proficiency in the ways and means of life vests in the group at large; and, apart from accretions borrowed from other groups, it is the product of the given group, though not produced by any single generation.
The Belgium constitution of 1831 jointly vests the legislative power in the king, the Senate, and the Chamber of Representatives.
The constitution, voted by a popular assembly in 1866, vests the executive authority in the reigning king and his council of ministers; the legislative body consists of a Senate and a Chamber of Deputies.
He sold off several more of his fine vests and browsers, his silver-keyed flute and enameled guitar; and a portion of the money thus furnished was pleasantly spent in refreshing ourselves at the road-side inns in the vicinity of the town.
Since military occupation by no means vests sovereignty in the occupant, but only actual authority, this authority may not be called territorial supremacy.
The question has been raised in what way blockade, which vests a belligerent with a certain jurisdiction over neutral vessels and which has detrimental consequences for neutral trade, could be justified.
As the bankrupt's property vests in the trustee for the time being, and passes from trustee to trustee by operation of law, and without any formal act of conveyance, the continuity of the office is thus secured.
The English act vests all the bankrupt's property, whether in the United Kingdom or in the colonies, in his trustee in bankruptcy.
She had been up town to carry the great, black bundle of pants and vests to the factory and receive her small pittance, and on the way home stopped in at the Jesuit Church to say her little prayer at the altar of the calm, white Virgin.
And do the owners of the faded vests and patched coats hide in dusky corners while their only garments are receiving the benefit of Old Sol's cleansing rays?
She allowed 'twould keep us in vests and her in petticuts and thro't bandages for ten years, and I'm not going to begin to waste the minute she's under ground.
Yes, I spotted them vests first thing, I guess it's the first stitch ever they had on that was anyways different.
I was therefore, after further communings, driven back on the astonishing fibre at fifteen shillings; and one of these vests I ordered to be sent to the boat.
Now from her shoulders torn, Her robes with gold bright-glittering, sable vests Her limbs enfolded.
Less fiercely in the Circus wide Rages the bull not, when the scarlet vests To urge his fury fixt, with furious horn To gore attempting, finds elusion still, The unhurt limbs invading.
The temple left, Their heads they cover, and their vests unbind; And o'er their heads as order'd heave the stones.
But it was all complicated with white vests and black vests and sounded like a corn remedy; yet it was the only sartorial foundation we had.
Besides shields the natives wore vestsof buffalo hide, which appeared to be quite impervious to pistol shots.
In the village of the Bakwuru, in which we now prepared to encamp, we found sleeveless vests of thick buffalo hide, which our men secured, as fitting armour against the arrows of the tribes of the grass land.
Forth from the veiling wrappers the gorgeous vests they bore.
On the other hand, the Constitution vests in each House of Congress the power to make its own rules of procedure.
Her dress was three or four short vests of embroidered satin, disposed one over the other, of different colours, or rather different shades of similar colours; for strong contrast was carefully avoided.
It is true, I cannot promise to be all my father and his fathers were; for we wear silk vests for their steel coats, and feathered beavers for their crested helmets.
So that if it be money in her pocket or personal property in the hands of a third party, the title vests at once in the husband.
If selected from the separate property of either, it vestsin that one or his heirs.
If the homestead was selected from the community property it vests absolutely in the survivor.
It has disappeared, and so have two vests of little Fay's that I put in the nursery ottoman to mend.
He had tried the day before, but beyond a jersey and two little vests (which happened to be little Fay's), he had been unable to find anything.
When framed in a particular manner, this law unites, draws together, and vests property and power in a few hands: its tendency is clearly aristocratic.
The Federal Constitution vests all the privileges and all the responsibility of the executive power in a single individual.
A chattel real vests in the husband, not absolutely, but sub modo.
It hung on the slope of the rafters, just opposite the Lady of Shalott's window,--for she considered that her window at which Sary Jane did not make nankeen vests at sixteen and three quarters cents a dozen.
And Sary Jane folded up the shawl, which she could not afford to lose, and came home, and made nankeen vests at sixteen and three quarters cents a dozen in the window out of which the Lady of Shalott had never looked.
As for Sary Jane's voice, when one knew that she made nankeen vests at sixteen and three quarters cents a dozen, that was a matter of no surprise.
But the right vests in the colonel of a cavalry regiment to pass or reject horses intended for officers’ chargers; and Growler ruthlessly cast candidate after candidate for the position of Jellypod’s second charger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
