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Example sentences for "certain points"

  • At certain points, there were precipices.

  • I stated to Mr. Nicholas that if certain points of the future administration could be understood and arranged with Mr. Jefferson, I was authorized to say that three states would withdraw from an opposition to his election.

  • They are children to us in certain points of view.

  • For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine.

  • Traditions are sometimes strangely correct, in certain points, though grossly untrustworthy in others.

  • Traces of the old paving are yet to be seen at certain points.

  • At certain points it is 5 feet wide and 3-3/4 high.

  • The same anatomist has pointed out certain points of analogy between their bones and those of the Proteus anguinus; and Professor Owen has observed that they make an approach to the Proteus in the shortness of their ribs.

  • At certain points, as at a, Figure 70, some of the bendings of the flinty chert are so sharp that specimens might be broken off well fitted to serve as ridge-tiles on the roof of a house.

  • For the same reason, rocks found on the Gironde, in the South of France, and at certain points in the North of Italy, were suspected to be of contemporaneous origin.

  • Defn: An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes.

  • Defn: A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness.

  • The result is a segregation of classes which, whatever its merits at certain points, is of very questionable utility as a basis of government.

  • The Federal Council, although at certain points resembling a cabinet, is not a cabinet, and no such thing as cabinet government, or a parliamentary system, can be said to exist in Switzerland.

  • At certain points, however, as will appear, this connection is vital.

  • Only at certain points, as, for example, in respect to the levying of customs duties and of taxes, was the original independence of the individual state seriously impaired by the terms of the new arrangement.

  • An extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes.

  • A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness.

  • Its Illustration of Certain Points of Biblical History about the Time of Deborah or Gideon.

  • Its Illustration of Certain Points of Biblical History.

  • With their separation they must continue to be attached to each other at certain points, and thus undergo eversion at certain points.

  • The sense of feeling differs according to the diversity of certain points in the integument, and is thus nobler in character, the higher the rank which these may hold.

  • Thenceforth ``we'' re-emerges at certain points in the narrative until Rome is reached.

  • Apparently at certain points, as for example at Illyria on the Adriatic, he extended still farther the sphere of his influence.

  • This natural defect was partially overcome by the deep cuttings in the natural rock, which at certain points left a sheer descent of twenty or twenty-five feet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain characters; certain date; certain degree; certain directions; certain fishes; certain fixed; certain great; certain king; certain moments; certain objects; certain other; certain proportion; certain resemblance; certain small; certain stage; certain things; certain type; certain value; certain village; certain woman; certainly very; gambling houses; more simple; representative government; social change; white roses