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Example sentences for "viva voce"

  • We will try a little ~viva voce~, Mr. Pucker.

  • The "act" is kept in the same way as that for the medical degree, and includes a viva voce examination.

  • Such negotiations may, therefore, take place viva voce or through the exchange of written representations and arguments, or both.

  • During viva voce negotiations it happens sometimes that a diplomatic envoy negotiating with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs reads out a letter received from his home State.

  • The more important negotiations are regularly conducted through the diplomatic exchange of written communications, as only in this way can misunderstandings be avoided, which easily arise during viva voce negotiations.

  • The viva voce vote was to be taken at the Township elections in April, 1844.

  • The votes of the electors were to be given viva voce.

  • The clerks of election were charged with keeping a record of these viva voce votes.

  • Whether these subjects are to be handled viva voce or in writing must be left to the decision of the teacher.

  • If this is done the viva voce practice will gain in definiteness and precision without in the least preventing spontaneous questions being asked ad libitum.

  • Except in elections, voting is viva voce, and an abstract of proceedings is published regularly in the official gazette of the Republic.

  • Prior to 1872 candidates were nominated viva voce at the "hustings," an outdoor platform erected for the purpose; but nowadays nominations are made in writing.

  • Viva voce was still (and is to the present day) important, because it was the direct successor of oral disputation.

  • The examination involves a little viva voce, and it was said, that, if a man did his viva voce well, none of his papers were looked at but the Paley.

  • The Count de Montmorin, who was compromitted in this rumor, took an opportunity to mention publicly, that neither viva voce, nor by letter had he given the least surmise that would authorise it.

  • You can have the fullest confidence in him, and as he knows I place the most absolute in you, it would be trifling to swell a letter with news or observations, of both which he can viva voce satisfy you.

  • In the month of May, I answered in writing the instructions he gave me at Cadiz, as I did viva voce at Aranjues in April, before he entered Madrid.

  • There is a written examination of six hours, and a viva voce examination of an hour and a quarter.

  • The duke then enters a hall where a viva voce examination takes place on the art of fortification.

  • The theory is, that during each recitation, every cadet of the section attending it, shall receive a thorough viva voce examination illustrated on the blackboard, and there is not much practical variation therefrom.

  • It is now the afternoon of the second day of the viva voce examinations in honors.

  • The week's paper-work passed off uneventfully; then comes the viva voce work for the candidates for honors.

  • You may go in and watch the torture yourself if you are so minded, for the viva voce schools are open to the public.

  • It is a dreadful task that of answering examination papers--only to be exceeded in dreadfulness by the horrors of Mr. Jobbles' viva voce torments.

  • Mr. Jobbles had for many years been examining undergraduates for little goes and great goes, and had passed his life in putting posing questions, in detecting ignorance by viva voce scrutiny, and eliciting learning by printed papers.

  • The examination lasted for four days, and it was arranged that on each of the four days each of the five candidates should be called up to undergo a certain quantum of Mr. Jobbles' viva voce.

  • The election shall be by viva voce, which shall be recorded in the journal, in such manner as to show for whom each member voted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    contemporary life; critical analysis; gentle voice; good will toward men; individual rights; little embarrassed; making gold; modern days; must only; neighbouring hill; outer edge; put him; small stature; sympathy with; the evening; things that; think there; variable number; viva voce; will move; will stay; without any