For, just as diseases are considered more serious when they affect more important vital organs or functions, so sins are more grave when they affect more radical principles of human conduct.
The precept of annual confession obliges under pain of mortal sin, for its purpose is of vital importance and the Church has always regarded it as a grave obligation.
It may be well to re-state these conditions, but with focal reference to this point--the one vital point of our whole theme.
He sat and talked with me, and sometimes touched my head and face with his hands, moistened with cold water, though declaring even this to be of no vital consequence.
But no higher ideals are to be found in any people than the political ideals of these Russians, and their interest in politics is a keen and vital one.
Not one word of the vital truth--the growing truth in these growing days--for which Russia is hungry.
It is then of vital necessity that they be preserved in their entirety.
To older conductors the Panhandle and the Lake Shore are still as real and as vital as if those beloved names still appeared upon the rolling stock.
The remarkable development of the automobile truck during the past five years has only emphasized the vitalneed of some such universal container.
And this nation may yet be profoundly grateful that it has such a railroad trunk, through the heart of its "vital area.
It is still more vital with our electric interurban properties.
The exposed and bended arm of Cape Cod is a weak point in the nation's "vital area.
They gave their first efforts to moving coal and milk and the othervital necessities for the towns which they served with the rigors of an unusually hard winter to combat.
This is important work, vital training, if you please.
But Droege knows that advance plans are of vital necessity.
The discharge of the debt, therefore, is vitalto the destinies of our government, and it hangs on Mr. Madison and yourself alone.
The sword, however, can never again be sheathed, until the personal safety of an American on the ocean, among the most important and most vital of the rights we possess, is completely provided for.
These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
It was a mental change so animating and vital that Cresswell felt all former estimates of her crumble.
If he upon his arrival had at once noticed a subtle but marked change in Perdita, she now was struck by an equally vital and informing alteration in him.
Marathon and Arbela, Worcester and Valmy, even our own Bunker Hill and Saratoga and Yorktown, fields of undying fame, have not for us a significance so vital and so beneficent as this field of Gettysburg.
No nation which is virtuous and vital will ever be slave to the past; at the command of virtue and of vision it will snap precedent like a reed.
I cannot, even now, persuade myself to relinquish it, without expressing once more my deep conviction that, since it respects nothing less than the union of the states, it is of most vital and essential importance to public happiness.
It was vital to them at once to establish a king, who should restore peace for the common good, punish rebels by force of arms, and justly administer the laws.
In regard to choice of subject-matter, while trying to satisfy the natural demand for certain “stock” documents of vital importance, we hope to introduce much fresh and novel matter.
The stalled peace process and ongoing violence in southern Lebanon could lead to wider hostilities that would disrupt vital capital inflows.
The hostilities have drained away substantial resources vital to Eritrea's economic development.
Its generosity with oil revenues and its moderate foreign policy stance have allowed it to play a vital role in the affairs of the region.
The story is of the choice confronting a girl upon whom two men have a vital claim.
Peterson produced a big strip of heavy canvas which I put to good service by protecting the vital parts of the mechanism.
I saw a chance to obtain her views on a question most vital to me, and I proceeded to do so, but I hope I did not lower myself in her estimation.
She seems young and vital enough to crave all of life's variety.
In that strong box," he told her, "are papers of vital importance.
The Revolution has brought to a head the question of private property in land and the tools of production--that is, the question of vital significance to the exploiting classes.
In the meantime, the executioners were doing their work in Finland and the Ukraine, menacing more and more the most vital centers of Great Russia.
Ere yet their rosy bloom decays: While youth yet rolls its vital flood, Let tigers friendly riot in my blood.
Arteries are long and hollow, with a double skin to convey thevital spirit; to discern which the better, they say that Vesalius the anatomist was wont to cut up men alive.
The vital spirits are made in the heart of the natural, which by the arteries are transported to all the other parts: if the spirits cease, then life ceaseth, as in a syncope or swooning.
So pungently vital to somnambulant mankind at that epoch; to us fallen dead as carrion, and unendurable to think of.
Parings from that outskirt, what are these compared with Silesia, a horrid gash into the vital parts?
For our now as pious as wise King will, especially in one most vital point, take pattern by the King of all Kings; and means to be lord of his subjects only, not of the consciences of his subjects.
These fears were not unfounded; yet thevital interests of the two French colonies were the same, and each needed the help of the other in the prime and all-essential task of keeping the British colonies in check.
The English colonists throve in it because they and their forefathers had been trained in a school of self-control and self-dependence; and what would have been intoxication for others, was vital force to them.
This waste of savage vegetation survives, in some part, to this day, with the same prodigality of vital force, the same struggle for existence and mutual havoc that mark all organized beings, from men to mushrooms.
The Mississippi itself, which may be called the vital organ of the colony, was thus far neglected, being occupied by no settlement and guarded only by a redoubt near one of its mouths.
Tourism continues as a major industry, providing a vital offset to the sizable commodity trade deficit.
Population: Figures are estimates from the Bureau of the Census based on statistics from population censuses, vital registration systems, or sample surveys pertaining to the recent past, and on assumptions about future trends.
That he could read the message, was an evidence of his vital force and infinite determination.
It had struck him on the right arm, and the force of the blow had deprived him of the use of that vital member.
It is therefore essential to present the vital point at the outset, in such form as will enable the reader to grasp it quickly, clearly and easily.
All that is essential is to cover the vital point, leaving details for subsequent narration.
Capitalize the names of federal and state departments and bureaus, as Department of Agriculture, State Insurance Department, Bureau of Vital Statistics.
The stalker should always endeavour to get within a range of 80 yards, to ensure a vital shot at the shoulder.
The vital organs, lungs and heart, are flaccid and anæmic, but show no further sign of disease.
When you see your stag do this, you may be very sure that he is hard hit in a vital spot, and he will not go far.
CAMP GEAR In regard to camp gear, a thing of vital importance, a few hints may prove useful.
It is yet so vital that neither imported government nor imported creeds have quite stamped it out.
It was an old quarrel renewed under conditions which Made the issue more important than ever, for with open war between French and English it became ofvital moment to control points which were, or might be, strategic.
The siege of Quebec and Schuyler's raid on Laprairie open up a subject of large and vital moment--the historical antagonism of New France and New England.
What for Frontenac was a question of political expediency loomed large to the Jesuits as a vital issue of morals.
Despite the eighty years of its existence the colony was still so poor that regularity in the arrival of supplies from France was a matter of vital importance.
But the vital significance of the conflict between New England and New France lies in the contrast of their spirit and institutions.
It is the blossom of which prose is the bud, and comes with sincerity, simplicity, purity of motive, and a vital relation to Nature.
No one who reads Crabbe's writings will deny him genius; no one who reads them with adequate sympathy and attention will deny that his genius is vital with passion and imagination.
His wit, too, is usually pregnant and vital with force and meaning.
Cassava is as vital to these Indians as the air they breathe.
The vital necessity for this was not apparent, for none of this débris was incorporated into the silk of the cocoons, which were clean and homogeneous.
I even began to feel the hot rush of my vital fluid over my arm, and then found that I had dozed for a moment and that all my sensations were imaginary.
They need know only that it is of vital importance and that our meeting must be attended with the strictest confidence.
It is vital that you remember that you are a girl and that I am the head of this family, whose right and duty it is to direct you.
Could any one seek to claim, except on most urgent business, one minute out of these crucially vital hours?
To me it is all more vital than history; more real than chronicle.
It isvital that you remember who is mistress of this house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vital" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
