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Example sentences for "admissible"

Lexicographically close words:
admirers; admires; admiring; admiringly; admissibility; admission; admissions; admit; admits; admitt
  1. Mr. Higginson says that the law of non-resistance is not admissible as a general rule.

  2. The quantity of admissible transgression of law varies with the degree in which the ornamentation involves or admits imitation of nature.

  3. The hill beyond is in like manner lifted into a more rounded, but still precipitous, eminence, reaching the utmost admissible elevation of ten or twelve hundred feet (measurable by the trees upon it).

  4. It is not admissible to steal under any circumstances, but the safer and more subtle forms of theft are especially repellent.

  5. Then it is admissible to steal, so long as you do it openly and take a personal risk?

  6. I don't know how far that was admissible or inspired," he said.

  7. It's admissible to break your trading opponent.

  8. This plan may possibly be admissible in a very small school; that is, in one of ten or twelve pupils.

  9. There have been, in several cases, experiments made with reference to ascertaining how far a government, strictly republican, would be admissible in a school.

  10. On the continent of Europe and in the United States of America we obtain ample evidence that the plan of pauperizing patients in order to render them admissible to public asylums, is by no means necessary.

  11. I had conceived that alumni of the University were not admissible to honorary degrees; but upon this point the information possessed by your Grace, as Chancellor of the University, cannot be disputed.

  12. It is not admissible on Mr. Calhoun's theory of State sovereignty, for on that theory a State in going out of the Union does not cease to be a State but simply resumes the powers it had delegated to the General government.

  13. It is admissible on no theory of the constitution that has been widely entertained.

  14. It was to be marketed as “Iodolen” provided the Council found the preparation admissible to New and Nonofficial Remedies.

  15. In the absence of evidence for the combination, Pulvoids Natrium Compound must be considered an irrational mixture, the use of which is a detriment to sound drug therapy and, hence, not admissible to New and Nonofficial Remedies.

  16. No one was unmoved, except Sokrates himself: who gently remonstrated with them, and exhorted them to tranquil resignation: reminding them that nothing but good words was admissible at the hour of death.

  17. Sophist: "Nevertheless the coarse jesting of the dialogue seems almost to exceed the admissible limit of comic effect," &c.

  18. They are, therefore, equally admissible for that purpose.

  19. But colored testimony is admissible in a case between colored persons, or against a colored person where the other party is white.

  20. The actions, looks, and barking of a dog are admissible as natural evidence upon a question as to his madness.

  21. So the squealing and grunts or other expression of pain made by a hog are admissible upon a question as to the extent of an injury inflicted on him.

  22. Again, if the Antiphasis could be divided, and a half or intermediate position found, as this theory contends, the division of it must be admissible farther and farther, ad infinitum.

  23. But this is not expressed by the terms of his definition, in any one of their admissible meanings.

  24. From the Antiphasis in Modals Aristotle proceeds to legitimate sequences admissible in such propositions, how far any one of them can be inferred from any other.

  25. Plato also reckons the pleasures of smell among the pure and admissible pleasures (Philebus, p.

  26. In this no distinction is admissible of real and apparent: a Self-apparent-good is an absurdity.

  27. No question was admissible which tended to elicit information or a positive declaration from the respondent.

  28. Aristotelian Categories; that no Genera or Species are admitted except with hesitation; and that the mean and undignified among them are scarcely admissible at all.

  29. Osann's Commentary, is instructive in enabling us to appreciate the taste of ancient times as to what was probable or admissible in etymology.

  30. Side-note: Plato intended his theory as serious, but his exemplifications as admissible guesses.

  31. I recognise a much wider area of admissible divergence.

  32. As specimens of Plato's view respecting admissible etymologies, we find him in Timaeus, p.

  33. It** is surely less difficult to believe that Plato conceived as plausible and admissible those etymologies which appear to us absurd.

  34. But however admissible this conception may seem, there is of course no real objection [678] to the assumption of independent and parallel mutations.

  35. But no such proof has been found, and the conclusion seems admissible that the mutation of toad-flaxes ordinarily, if not universally, takes place by a sudden step.

  36. Depositions taken before a coroner are admissible under the same principle.

  37. A statement made by a deceased person against his pecuniary or proprietary interest is admissible as evidence, without reference to the time at which it was made.

  38. The general rule is, that a confession is not admissible as evidence against any person except the person who makes it.

  39. Evidence is not admissible to show that the person who is alleged to have done a thing was of a disposition or character which makes it probable that he would or would not have done it.

  40. Admissions, in this sense of the term, are admissible as evidence against the person by whom they are made, or on whom they are binding, without reference to the life or death of the person who made them.

  41. In a trial for murder or manslaughter a declaration by the person killed as to the cause of his death, or as to any of the circumstances of the transaction which resulted in his death, is admissible as evidence.

  42. When an act of violence is committed, to what extent are the terms of the complaint made by the sufferer, as distinguished from the fact of a complaint having been made, admissible as evidence?

  43. Thus we say that a fact is not evidence, meaning thereby that it is not admissible as evidence in accordance with the rules of English law.

  44. But in a modern industrial community--where the margin of admissible waste probably always exceeds fifty per cent, of the output of goods--the facts make no approach to the hypothesis.

  45. How far, then, is such defence or explanation admissible and satisfactory?

  46. Whenever the cost of discharging cargo from a ship is admissible as G.

  47. The question is--Whether His Majesty’s pardon did so far restore John Brown to the character and reputation he held before his conviction as to make his evidence admissible in the present trial?

  48. But, my Lords, there was no occasion for a pardon in this case; the witness, in my opinion, would have been just as admissible without it.


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    Other words:
    absolute; acceptable; adequate; admissible; agreeable; alright; appertaining; applicable; apposite; appropriate; apropos; authentic; certain; circumstantial; cogent; conclusive; convincing; credible; cumulative; damning; decent; decisive; defensible; desirable; determinative; dispensable; documentary; documented; eligible; enfranchised; evidential; excusable; eyewitness; factual; fair; final; firsthand; fit; fitted; germane; good; hearsay; hospitable; implicit; incontrovertible; indicative; indisputable; inoffensive; inviting; irrefutable; irresistible; just; justifiable; lawful; legal; legitimate; licit; logical; material; moderate; open; overwhelming; pardonable; passable; permissible; pertaining; pertinent; plausible; possible; presentable; presumptive; qualified; rational; reasonable; receivable; receptive; recipient; relevant; reliable; respectable; sane; satisfactory; sensible; significant; sound; sufficient; suggestive; suitable; sure; symptomatic; telling; tenable; tidy; tolerable; unexceptionable; unobjectionable; valid; venial; viable; warrantable; weighty; welcoming; wholesome; workmanlike; worthy