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Example sentences for "clause"

Lexicographically close words:
clatter; clattered; clattering; claught; clausa; clauses; clausit; claustra; claustral; claustro
  1. Here's a note from the Ministry, regretting that you should have changed your mind and taken advantage of Clause Seven.

  2. On March 28th Mr. Smith moved the second reading on the understanding that the objectionable clause would be withdrawn in Committee.

  3. The clause of the Poor Law Bill, by which men are separated from their wives, being carried into effect, caused a great disturbance," and it was supposed that the fire resulted from motives of revenge.

  4. At a meeting held at the Duke's Palace Inn, Norwich, on March 1st, it was decided to oppose the Bill because the Paving Commissioners by clause 8 sought to obtain authority to levy an additional due of 8d.

  5. The meeting was held in consequence of a requisition signed by farmers only who confined their objection to the clause in the Property Tax which related to the tenants' duty, and to the Agricultural Horse Tax.

  6. The Bill was read a first time on March 4th, but in consequence of the opposition to clause 8 Mr. Smith withdrew the measure and suffered the second reading to pass as a dropped order.

  7. With respect to the article of yellow wax, I think there is a general clause in the Arrêt, which will take it in; but I am not sure of it.

  8. They propose, therefore, a clause for limiting its duration to a certain term of years.

  9. My last information was, that the lease was too far advanced to withdraw from it the article of tobacco, but that a clause is inserted in it, empowering the King to discontinue it at any time.

  10. In many instances this clause was disregarded by the Protestants, who from the first felt it to be unjust.

  11. And they prayed that the clause in the charter guaranteeing equal liberties and immunities to grantees, might not be violated, so as to "divert out of the true course the free and public current of justice.

  12. I should say that people had not dealt uprightly with you," the Bishop answered; "but there might be nothing in the clause to which you could object.

  13. Act, he introduced a clause specifically barring their contingent claim to the English throne.

  14. A unique clause empowered the King to dispose of the crown at will, should he have no issue by his present Queen.

  15. The explanation must be looked for in the line of the conditional clause with which he limits his claim for entire liberty to dramatic entertainments--they must be "without scandal or indecency.

  16. The only accident I could foresee was one to Mr. Strahan's life, and without this clause my nephew would have had no right to publish it.

  17. Merle, Madame Dorval's husband, came and begged me to add the clause to which reference has just been made; I did not refuse that act of compliance because I did not foresee that Antony was to be forbidden.

  18. This last clause roused a long and heated discussion.

  19. Had the additional clause any definite date attached?

  20. I added the clause at the foot of the dramatic contract.

  21. The Maryland Convention for the revision of the State Constitution, has adopted a clause abolishing imprisonment for debt, by a vote of 60 to 5.

  22. During the discussion of some Bill, a particular clause was objected to, and by his own friends.

  23. They urged him to take that opportunity to entail on the title all the curious and valuable things which had been given him by emperors and kings, and to have a clause inserted in the Bill for that purpose.

  24. It was this clause which had caused the Duke of Buckingham to quit the Cabinet.

  25. For many years accordingly the clause which empowered the Queen to appoint certain persons who had not held judicial offices in England to be members was not acted upon at all.

  26. The Accident-Liability Clause in the Factory Act.

  27. The authorship of this clause lay with Marie Antoinette, and it threatened, if there were any attack upon the palace, to give the capital over to military execution and total subversion.

  28. Continental Courts take into consideration not only the literal meaning of a clause of a statute, but also the intention of the legislator as evidenced by--what I should like to call--the history of the clause.

  29. A necessary provision with regard to the notorious clause rebus sic stantibus 69 X.

  30. They only take into consideration the literal meaning of the clause as it stands in the statute of which it is a part.

  31. Now Article 23(h) is a clause in the Convention concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land.

  32. A necessary provision with regard to the notorious clause rebus sic stantibus.

  33. To provide against such a contingency it was deemed wise to add an appropriate declaratory clause to the prohibition of Article 23.

  34. On the other hand, in interpreting and construing a clause of a statute, British and American Courts refuse to take into consideration the intention of the draftsman, Parliamentary discussions concerning the clause, and the like.

  35. An oblique reflection on the disinterestedness of Gracchus's efforts was further given in the clause which created the commissioners for the foundation of these new colonies, Drusus's name did not appear in the list.

  36. Lastly, a clause was annexed, that "all the decrees, formerly passed against the Pisistratidae, should be in full force against Philip.

  37. The object of this clause was to prevent discrimination among States through the taxing power.

  38. Thus does this much debated clause simply operate to forbid forfeiture when not pronounced “during the life of the person attainted.

  39. Amidst the confusion in which this clause is involved, you cannot expect that it will be a strong restraint upon any exercise of power under the Constitution which otherwise seems rational and just.

  40. I am not ready to say that these words give the President power to declare the existence of war without the intervention of Congress; but I object to the whole clause on account of its generality.

  41. By one clause the new North-West Company is protected from any expense that might arise from Simon McTavish's immense venture on the Hudson Bay.

  42. One important clause is to the effect that no business other than the fur trade, or what is necessarily depending thereon, shall be followed by the Company.

  43. In the Apostolical Canons I find no reference to Mary; nor indeed any passage bearing on our present inquiry, except the last clause of all, containing the benediction.

  44. The court held that the registration of the mark under the ten years' clause removed it from the class of descriptive phrases--in other words, that registration under the ten years' clause was a prima facie evidence of validity.

  45. These features would probably prevent its registration under the general Act of 1905, but not under the ten years' clause of that act, provided it could fulfil the requirements of that clause.

  46. The remaining particulars of this clause fall within reasonings which are either so obvious, or have been so fully developed, that they may be passed over without remark.

  47. And what clause of the Constitution restricts the right of Petition to constitutional things?

  48. But there is this peculiarity in the language of this clause of the Constitution.

  49. The clause by which a possibility of pardon was hinted to such criminals, provided they would confess and surrender, was justly regarded as a trap.

  50. Montigny complied by sending several names, with a clause of substitution.

  51. This clause was struck out; and even if adopted it would probably have amounted to nothing, for if slavery had been permitted to take firm root it could hardly have been torn up.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amendment; article; bill; book; calendar; catch; clause; column; condition; construction; expression; folio; gathering; given; grounds; idiom; installment; joker; kicker; locution; motion; number; obligation; page; paragraph; parameter; part; passage; period; phrase; prerequisite; provision; proviso; question; requisite; rider; section; sentence; serial; sheet; signature; specification; stipulation; string; term; terms; text; ultimatum; usage; utterance; verse; volume; whereas