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Example sentences for "assigning"

Lexicographically close words:
assigne; assigned; assignee; assignees; assignes; assignment; assignments; assignor; assigns; assimilable
  1. The error or paradox consists in assigning a real unity of existence, and a real power of causation, to that which is unintelligent.

  2. The resolution to which he alluded, was that assigning a sum of money to buy a cessation of hostilities from the Regency of Algiers.

  3. He might justify this active support of the petition, by assigning motives which were common to other gentlemen; but as they have continued silent, I will assign a reason for speaking, which is peculiar to myself.

  4. Footnote: See my order assigning garrisons to the forts.

  5. The President, in real perplexity, compromised by assigning McClellan to command for the purpose of organizing, a work in which he was admitted by all to be able.

  6. We all recognized the necessity of sending some one to the Kanawha who knew the country, and the reasonableness, therefore, of assigning the duty to me.

  7. There seems, indeed, a certain propriety in assigning to the man who struck the heaviest blows at secession and slavery in the national Senate the first place under him who, in the field, made them henceforth impossible.

  8. If conjecture were allowable in assigning masters to painters of the old schools, I should be inclined to reckon Daniele di Volterra rather the scholar of Mecherino, than of Razzi or Peruzzi.

  9. Before assigning the portion to be read in the text-book, the teacher may prepare the way by presenting or reviewing any matter upon which the interpretation of the text depends.

  10. He will thus be saved such blunders as teaching in December a literature lesson on An Apple Orchard in the Spring, or assigning a composition on "Tobogganing" in June, because he realizes that the interest in these topics is not then active.

  11. Measurement is a most necessary adjunct to selecting the workers and the managers and to assigning them to the proper functions and work.

  12. Of what use can Murray's definition of the active verb be, to one who endeavours to prove the propriety of thus assigning an epithet to the various parts of speech, in the course of parsing?

  13. Such being the case, it need scarcely be said that the difficulty of assigning a date to the work with any degree of certainty is extreme, if it be not absolutely impossible to do so.

  14. We have already pointed out that there is not a single passage in Irenaeus, or any other early writer, assigning Ptolemaeus and Heracleon to a period anterior to the time when Irenaeus undertook to refute their opinions.

  15. On the contrary, as Lucian does not in any way refer to such a writing by his friend, there would be strong reason for assigning the work, if it be supposed to be written by him, to a date subsequent to the Pseudo-mantis.

  16. With this sole exception, there is not a single word or statement in the fragment which would oppose our assigning the {244} composition to a late period of the third century.

  17. Ewald has made a minute analysis of the Synoptics assigning the materials of each to what he considers their original source.

  18. This is the case in the present instance, and there is no legitimate reason for assigning these passages to Basilides himself,(3) but on the contrary many considerations which forbid our doing so, which we have elsewhere detailed.

  19. Irenaeus gives us other materials for assigning a date to his work.

  20. We watered the horses at a neighbouring brook, and assigning two hours to rest and: refreshment--a great part of which M.

  21. General Buell immediately set about reorganizing the whole force, and on September 29 issued an order designating the troops under my command as the Eleventh Division, Army of the Ohio, and assigning Brigadier-General J.

  22. After taking leave I separated from General Halleck, and on returning to my hotel found there an order from the War Department assigning me to the command of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac.

  23. He made some free gifts which are ridiculous, though I believe that he began by assigning the chief part to himself.

  24. That summer he explored the western uninhabited region, remaining there for a long time, and assigning many local names there.

  25. This section of the book opens with two passages, verses 1-5 and verses 6, 7, which there are serious objections against assigning to Micah.

  26. As food was scarce he divided his people into three bands, assigning to one the task of foraging for provisions, to another that of cutting and sawing the timber, and to the third that of bringing the rigging and the ironwork from Acla.

  27. He should rather have attacked, as Ruyter did at the Texel, as many of the rear ships as he thought he could deal with, and refused his van, assigning to it the part of checking the French van.

  28. Herzfeld in assigning them to the Umayyad period.

  29. I was therefore right in assigning it to the thirteenth century A.

  30. Under the dome runs an inscription assigning the building of the mosque to the Ortokid Alpi (A.

  31. Materials for the study of early Mohammadan decoration are still so scanty that the difficulty of assigning exact dates to such as we possess is great.

  32. Grant, by order of the secretary, immediately assumed his command, telegraphing his order to Rosecrans, and assigning Thomas to the army of the Cumberland.

  33. You do yourself injustice in assigning to us too large a share of the merits which have led to your high advancement.

  34. Thought and judgment are constantly exercised in assigning the exact equivalents of the mother tongue for every phrase of the original.

  35. Continuing their remarks, the Fathers define the limits of the weekly disputations to be two hours, not more, assigning four regular objectors for that time.

  36. Any report from the places where there happen to be bone-houses, together with the local tradition assigning their origin, would I think, throw light on an interesting and rather obscure subject.

  37. Nor are we unmindful of our having pointed out and corrected above the error of the human mind, in assigning the first qualities of essence to forms.

  38. And in order to be better understood, and to render our meaning more familiar by assigning determinate names, we have accustomed ourselves to call the one method the anticipation of the mind, and the other the interpretation of nature.

  39. But the proposal of assigning to the clergy the care of the civil records, and the control of public instruction, fell to the ground.

  40. Amongst seditious acts, the committee drew a line between crimes and offences, assigning crimes to the Court of Assizes, to be punished by transportation, and prescribing for simple offences fine and imprisonment.

  41. In assigning me to this responsible position, the President of the Confederate States has extended to me the assurance of his earnest support.

  42. I answered him frankly, telling him of my understanding with General Grant, and that I was still awaiting the expected order of the War Department, assigning General Buell to my command.

  43. We have to choose between placing Folgore in that century or assigning the sonnet to some anonymous author.

  44. Be that as it will, its most striking characteristic is that of marking out the scull into compartments, in the same manner as a country delineated on a map is divided into districts, and assigning a different faculty or organ to each.

  45. Its principle was built upon a theory of the sexes, giving to each a relative importance, and assigning to both functions full of honour and grace.

  46. We digest explanations of things, assigning the particulars in which they resemble other classes, and the particulars by which they are distinguished from whatever other classes have fallen under our notice.

  47. In assigning the causes of the ill-working of the apprenticeship in Jamaica, we would say in the commencement, that nearly all of them are embodied in the intrinsic defects of the system itself.

  48. That the ordinance abolished the slavery then existing there is also shown by the fact, that persons holding slaves in the territory petitioned for the repeal of the article abolishing slavery, assigning that as a reason.


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