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Example sentences for "bona fide"

  • No person can lawfully practise medicine or surgery who has not received a medical education and a diploma from some regularly chartered medical school having a bona fide existence when the diploma was granted (Act of 1875, c.

  • No person can lawfully practise medicine or surgery who has not received a medical education, and a diploma from a regularly chartered medical school, having a bona fide existence when the diploma was granted (Rev.

  • No person can lawfully practise medicine, surgery, or obstetrics who has not received a medical education and diploma from some regularly chartered medical school having a bona fide existence when the diploma was granted (R.

  • Surely then we are justified in suspecting that there must have been more bona fide personal recollection and experience, with more effort and failure on the part of the infant itself, than meet the eye.

  • Being in this world is it not our most obvious business to make the most of it--to observe what things do bona fide tend to long life and comfort, and to act accordingly?

  • The deadness inherent in these defunct languages themselves had never been artificially counteracted by a system of bona fide rewards for application.

  • Knowledge of this sort is very easily acquired by anyone who is in bona fide want of it.

  • Somes introduced into Parliament his Sunday Closing Bill, which proposed to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, except to bona fide travellers, from eleven o'clock on Saturday night to six o'clock Monday morning.

  • Even if a person, professing to be a bona fide traveller, has on the previous night lodged outside the 3-mile limit, as defined by the Act, it still rests with the magistrates to determine whether he be a bona fide traveller or not.

  • It will not be difficult either for the searching belligerent man-of-war or for the Prize Court to ascertain whether or no such arms and ammunition are carried bona fide.

  • On the other hand, French practice recognised such a sale in transitu, provided it could be proved that the transaction was made bona fide.

  • You will thereby get rid of every farthing of the balance now demanded; and I give you this recommendation bona fide, and upon the honor of a gentleman.

  • But scarcely any other event in that territory seems more highly charged with the elements of incredibility than the Salem historian's perception that little John Stiles was the bona fide author of the pranks played at William Morse's house.

  • But every man there is a bona fide farmer, who has so studied the mysteries of nature that he is able to wring her secrets out of her, and cause the fields to be covered with luxuriant crops.

  • The Chairman conscientiously refused to put this amendment on the ground that it was not a bona fide one, and also the following amendment, which was likewise moved by Mr. W.

  • What an objection to the refunding the money--that, although it was received, the purchaser of the bonds had no right to buy them, and therefore the bona fide holders should lose the money.

  • And, where a State, acting through its supreme Executive and Legislature, has issued its bonds and affixed its seal, and they have passed into the hands of bona fide holders, the obligation must be fulfilled.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bona fide; consolatione philosophiae; distinction between; father had; fever bird; for some unknown reason; gone from; half the; hereby amended; mistaken identity; must acknowledge; natural world; naughty girl; once knew; other situations; physical object; polymetallic nodules; popular vote; regional commission; said the young doctor; thickly wooded; white water