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constituent; constituents; constituta; constitute; constituted; constituting; constitutio; constitution; constitutional; constitutionalism
  1. The emblematism of bodily sign or action constitutes the language of the dumb.

  2. Mrs. Haughton was still a pretty woman, and with much of that delicacy of form and outline which constitutes the gentility of person.

  3. The power of seeing spiritual substances, and the perfect evolution of the idea of God in the soul, therefore, do not give the intuition of the essence of God which constitutes the beatific vision.

  4. The period of myth and apotheosis--which, among the European races especially, constitutes the beginning of history.

  5. It requires a statement which shall show what is the nexus between the act which constitutes the soul in the power to exercise {664} intelligence, and that which constitutes it in the power to behold God immediately.

  6. The examination of this relation includes that of the means and method by which the soul is elevated to an immediate intuition of that which constitutes the divine essence and personality.

  7. What it is that constitutes the difference between wood and iron, in their substance, must remain for ever a secret to our senses.

  8. That act which constitutes it rational in the natural order, must be the basis and substratum of its supernatural tuition of the divine essence.

  9. This is identical with the intelligence itself; it is what constitutes its intellective force and principle of activity.

  10. It is the grace of the Holy Spirit which actually removes all guilt and stain of sin from the soul, and constitutes it in the state of justice and sanctity.

  11. If similarity of doctrine were all that constitutes conversion, the venerable father of Tractarianism would long ere this have found the rest we tremble now lest he should never find.

  12. This is incurred by each individual soul through its connection with the body which descends from our first parents by generation, because it is this infusion into a human body which constitutes it a member of the human race.

  13. The absence of these constitutes disease, which will result in spiritual death.

  14. This does not exist in Nature, but it has reality in so far as it constitutes the term of God's creative activity.

  15. The upward drive of the élan vital constitutes what may properly be known as evolution, the declining fall the process of devolution or degeneration.

  16. This consists of many different bodies, the most important of which is eucalyptol, a volatile oil, which constitutes about 70%.

  17. Burgundy Gate or Gap of Belfort, constitutes a well-marked break between those mountains and the Jura, and establishes easy communication between the Rhine and the Saone-Rhone valleys.

  18. Our happiness and our merit consist especially in approaching as near as possible to this unity, of which the gradual increase constitutes the best measure of real improvement, personal or social.

  19. It has one standard which, faithfully acted up to, suffices for salvation, another and a higher which when realized constitutes a saint.

  20. Supreme Self which constitutes the Self of all.

  21. Hence, what constitutes the inward Self is not pure consciousness but the 'I' which proves itself as the knowing subject.

  22. Brahman determined by an upâdhi constitutes the individual soul.

  23. Such egoity constitutes the ahamkâra also designated as pride or arrogance, which causes men to slight persons superior to themselves, and is referred to by scripture in many places as something evil.

  24. Those texts again which refer to mere knowledge declare indeed that knowledge is the essential nature of Brahman, but this does not mean that mere knowledge constitutes the fundamental reality.

  25. Hence the Lord of all is that Brahman which, according to the Sûtra, constitutes the object of enquiry.

  26. As the light of a fire burning in one place spreads all around, so the energy of the highest Brahman constitutes this entire world' (Vi.

  27. This opening satire constitutes the whole of the Eighth Passus of Piers Plowman's Vision and the First of Do-Wel.

  28. The following piece constitutes Letter 54 of the Citizen of the World.

  29. The Red Sea, or Arabian Gulf of antiquity, constitutes the grand natural division between Asia and Africa; but its advantages have been chiefly felt by the latter, which is entirely destitute of inland seas.

  30. This animal (for I have discovered that a spider is not an insect) constitutes part of the people's food.

  31. In Kurdistan the firing of a gun constitutes an appeal for assistance; and the Sheikh, with fine dramatic instinct, fired his gun straight towards heaven, appealing to Allah Himself.

  32. Their admitted reverence for Sheitan constitutes an abomination which neither Moslem nor Christian can condone.

  33. Yet the mere presence of a European constitutes a very real protection of the subject races in such an environment; and we owe at least this much recognition of our treaty obligations towards them.

  34. When the Kookies consider the disease beyond the hope of cure, he kills the animal and eats the flesh, which constitutes his first article of luxury.

  35. At what age does the curly hair appear which constitutes the mane of the wild bull?

  36. The present change in the form of the state constitutes the most glorious episode of our national history.

  37. The execution of the judgment constitutes a duty of the Russian authorities.

  38. The execution of the judgment constitutes a duty of the Chinese authorities.

  39. This constitutes the parish of Beauport, one of the first settled in the Province.

  40. In 1804, Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which now constitutes the State of Louisiana.

  41. Milton tells us that a good wife is "heaven's last, best gift to man;" but what constitutes a good wife?

  42. Brodie said: "It is attention, much more than in the abstract power of reasoning, which constitutes the vast difference which exists between minds of different individuals.

  43. It constitutes the half of all intellectual power.

  44. It is the intention that constitutes the crime.

  45. The whole being then strongly pressed, and sewed up in bags, constitutes the best and most portable food known; and one which will keep a great length of time.

  46. That which constitutes the grandeur of man is the being incomplete; it is the feeling one's self to be many degrees removed from completion; it is the perceiving something on that side of one's self, something on this side.

  47. It is that which constitutes your genius, it is said; I admit that, at all events, it is that which at this moment constitutes your power.

  48. Under the first head there are four points of inquiry: (1) What constitutes a state among men?

  49. In this way it does not diminish sin, but constitutes a species of sin: and thus it is in theft.

  50. The next Order which comes under review is the Diptera, which includes all the two-winged insects, and constitutes a most extensive Order in respect to the number of distinct species.

  51. I am at present unable to state with certainty what constitutes its food, but am extremely doubtful whether it consists of the juices imbibed from the roots of plants, as is generally supposed.

  52. This constitutes the shadow over the unfortunate Empire which makes it appear monstrous to the nations of the Entente.

  53. The creation of the African State which to-day forms the Belgian Colony of the Congo was the personal work of the King, and constitutes a unique achievement in the annals of history.

  54. Few really understand that, for certain natures, suffering constitutes a common bond.

  55. The Queen loved and taught me to love our heroic country, whose defence of her liberty in past ages constitutes one of the most touching episodes in history.

  56. I will leave this mysterious shadow and speak of two others who have passed, whose existence touches us more closely and constitutes a problem of State to minds interested in this subject.

  57. His brother's need constitutes a first charge on all that belongs to him, and ought to precede the gratification of his own desires for superfluities and luxuries.

  58. Such a union, deep and mystical as it is, is, thank God, an experience universal in all true Christians, and constitutes the very heart of the Gospel which Paul rejoiced to believe was entrusted to his hands for the world.

  59. That constitutes a summons as imperative as if we were called by name from Heaven, and bade to go, and as much as in us is to preach the Gospel.

  60. Into the very region where the tyrant rules, the Son of God communicates a new nature which constitutes a real new power.

  61. Simeon Villa, one of his companions on his subsequent flight through Northern Luzon, before he finally took refuge at Palanan, kept a diary, which constitutes an official record of this long journey.

  62. It is the collector and preserver of that force the expenditure of which constitutes the special display of animal life.

  63. A repetition of these arcs, each precisely like all the others, constitutes the first step toward a complex nervous system.

  64. So in that collection of substance which constitutes an animal; whatever may be its position, high or low, in the realm of life, there is a perpetual introduction of new material and a perpetual departure of the old.

  65. It may be truly said that the mathematical exposition of their origin constitutes the most splendid monument of the intellectual power of man.

  66. The artificial decomposition of water constitutes an epoch in chemistry.

  67. The carrying into effect of all this opens up a vast realm of service for the public good; and the proper performance of this service, in all its several branches, constitutes good citizenship.

  68. If what is imperfect constitutes the exception in the physical world, why should it be otherwise in the world of mind and of morals?

  69. If the mind is the measure of the man, and if uprightness constitutes the noblest aspect of life, then our advancement in knowledge and in righteousness should appear unto all men.

  70. George Eliot A great many persons carry in their minds a very mistaken idea as to what constitutes a truly noble life.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "constitutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.