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Example sentences for "concurrent"

Lexicographically close words:
concupiscible; concur; concurre; concurred; concurrence; concurrently; concurring; concurs; concursus; concussion
  1. As a County Court judge I have a concurrent jurisdiction, happily seldom exercised, in fixing 'fair rents.

  2. Concurrent negotiations should be entered into for extending our outer money order system to many foreign countries not yet brought within its range.

  3. Concurrent efforts were made to bring up the more recent arrears, and to prevent the possibility of new ones arising.

  4. At the same time, to meet the convenience of those who required cheapness rather than speed, he proposed a concurrent reduction on all letters sent by ordinary trading vessels; a mode of conveyance involving very little expense.

  5. Those, therefore, whom the lot of life has conjoined, should endeavour constantly to approach towards the inclination of each other, invigorate every motion of concurrent desire, and fan every spark of kindred curiosity.

  6. Chasser speaks of a case in which there was concurrent pregnancy in both the uterus and the Fallopian tube.

  7. In making laws the houses have concurrent jurisdiction--they both take part.

  8. A resolution passed by the two houses, but not intended to have the force of law, such as an agreement to do something, is called a concurrent resolution, and does not require the president's signature.

  9. Every one acquainted with the pretensions of the two applicants, was at no loss to judge as to the president's decision, and the concurrent opinion was in favor of the friend and against his competitor.

  10. The same sources of evidence prove with equal clearness the development under socialistic institutions of two other concurrent causes of decline.

  11. The jurisdiction of the justices of the peace for the municipalities in which such towns or places are situated, and of the justices of the peace appointed for such towns or places, are concurrent over cases arising within the municipality.

  12. Concurrent resolutions, which do not have the force of law, but are merely expressions of the sense of the legislative department on some question of interest to it alone, do not require the approval of the President.

  13. A concurrent resolution is used for expressing the opinion of Congress on some question of interest to that body alone and is not submitted to the President for his approval.

  14. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

  15. The distinction between bills, joint resolutions, and concurrent resolutions is discussed on p.

  16. In the beginning the presidential electors of each state were chosen by the legislature, either by joint ballot of the two houses sitting together, or by concurrent vote.

  17. For higher education county councils and county boroughs are the sole education authorities, except that non-county boroughs and urban councils are given a concurrent power of levying a rate for higher education not exceeding 1d.

  18. The several varieties, therefore, of the Gothic Drama may be justly regarded as bearing concurrent testimony to a common right of freedom from the jurisdiction of ancient rules.

  19. Concurrent with all this is the internal evidence of the play itself.

  20. And note further that as scientific introspection develops we are likely to receive fuller accounts of these concurrent mental processes, these partial externalisations of the creatures of the romancer's brain.

  21. Other concurrent forms of disease are whooping cough, diphtheria, pulmonary consumption, inflammation of the eyes, ear disease, and swelling of the glands.

  22. And this can only be done by such an "organism" as will "give to each division or interest either a concurrent voice in making and executing the laws or a veto on their execution.

  23. The concurrent testimony of Mr. Astor's tenants is, that he is one of the most liberal and obliging of landlords.

  24. By him, as by Abbé Brasseur, the concurrent opinions of the highest authorities in science, that the main features of the Atlantic basin have undergone no change within any recent geological period, are wholly ignored.

  25. But when the process is reversed, and we deduce effects from only one among concurrent and conflicting causes, theory is confounded by discordant facts.

  26. These concurrent losses, in their nearer or more remote consequences, affected all classes of society.

  27. The origin of Virginia is so well authenticated as to leave little doubt with regard to its population, unless you reject all the concurrent testimony of contemporaries and all the concurrent admissions of historians.

  28. The many concurrent reasons for this mischief may, I believe, be massed under a few general heads.

  29. By our concurrent labours in many a dark night, working with the most anxious precautions against noise, we had made out to pierce below the curtain about the south-west corner, in a place they call the Devil's Elbow.

  30. Soon, by concurrent steps, the day began to break and the fog to subside and roll away.

  31. It may be that here, too, fact is stranger than fiction; and we must not shut our eyes and ears to concurrent credible testimony, if it happen to bear witness to facts which we cannot account for.

  32. Not succeeding in this attempt, the House of Representatives adopted a concurrent resolution that Senators and Representatives from the Southern states should be excluded until Congress declared them entitled to representation.

  33. The concurrent sanction of all classes in all parts of the English-speaking world establishes it as law.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concurrent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; accompanying; agreeing; analogous; approaching; associated; attendant; attending; centripetal; coefficient; coeternal; coeval; coexistent; coextensive; coincident; collateral; collective; combined; combining; commensal; common; communal; communistic; compact; comprehensive; concerted; concomitant; concordant; concurrent; conjoint; conjugate; conniving; consonant; contemporaneous; contemporary; conterminous; cooperative; coordinate; corporate; correlative; coterminous; coupled; equal; equidistant; even; fellow; focal; harmonious; inclusive; joined; joint; meeting; modern; mutual; paired; parallel; paralleling; parasitic; radial; radiating; reciprocal; saprophytic; simultaneous; solid; symbiotic; synchronous; synergistic; tangential; twin; unanimous; unchallenged; uncontested; united; uniting; unopposed