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Example sentences for "deviations"

Lexicographically close words:
deviate; deviated; deviates; deviating; deviation; device; devices; devide; devided; deviennent
  1. The causes of these deviations are exceedingly difficult to ascertain.

  2. Nothing is more certain than that he chiefly followed the Translation by Painter from the French of Boisteau, and hence arise the Deviations from Bandello’s original Italian.

  3. This is the whole that Buchanan says of the Lady; and truly I see no more spirit in the Scotch than in the English Chronicler.

  4. And if, without the aid of honour, he can act with firmness, his portion is only the more eminent and distinguished.

  5. During the time of his employment in the Theatre, several of his pieces were printed separately in Quarto.

  6. It belongs to the category of early acquired deviations which are therefore frequently congenital.

  7. Most people are none the wiser because they do not know to what extent the physical and mental defects and deviations of individuals are due to inheritance or to the malign influences of the individual's environment and training.

  8. In a Whitehead torpedo, a compressed-air motor, for moving the rudders so as to correct deviations from the course.

  9. That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

  10. The first deviations from it probably originated in the family of Ham.

  11. The creative process may have been applicable to the highest as well as to the lowest forms, and subsequent deviations must have included degradation as well as elevation.

  12. Everywhere and in all races coarse features and deviations from the oval form of skull are observed in rude populations.

  13. In the following summary I shall endeavor to present to the reader only well-ascertained general truths, without indulging in those deviations from accuracy for effect too often met with in popular books.

  14. We have reason to assume, however, that such deviations from the rigorous discipline of rabbinical scholarship were few and far between.

  15. Now parse, in like manner, and with no needless deviations from the prescribed forms, the ten lessons of the Twelfth Praxis; or such parts of those lessons as the teacher may choose.

  16. A thousand other deviations may be made, and still either of them may be correct in principle.

  17. A thousand other deviations may be made, and still any of the accounts may be correct in principle; for all these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary.

  18. It seems to open a door for numerous deviations from the foregoing rule, and deviations of such a sort, that if they are to be considered exceptions, one can hardly tell why.

  19. Deviations of this kind are, in general, to be considered solecisms; otherwise, the rules of grammar would be of no use or authority.

  20. I therefore omit some forms of expression which others have treated as examples of Syllepsis, and define the term with reference to such as seem more worthy to be noticed as deviations from the ordinary construction of words.

  21. It is purposed here, to enumerate sundry deviations from the common style of prose; and perhaps all of them, or nearly all, may be justly considered as pertaining only to poetry.

  22. But so long as an individual has not completely developed, deviations may occur in his development; but these will be just so much the graver, in proportion as the individual is in a more plastic state.

  23. From this fundamental point a new beginning must be made, on more certain and positive bases, of the study of deviations from normality and their etiology.

  24. Hence, in order to determine the deviations of the individual type, we must always start from those central data, which represent, as the case may be, normality or perfection.

  25. Other deviations from the normal position occur in connection with the foot.

  26. The basilican form of church became general in Italy, a large proportion of whose churches continued to be built with wooden roofs and with but slight deviations from the original type, long after the appearance of the Gothic style.

  27. Then she unbosomed herself to her teachers, and confessed that she had hitherto concealed some deviations which burdened her conscience, and which she must make known before she departed.

  28. Many failures would doubtless occur, but with the lapse of time slight deviations would undoubtedly become permanent and inheritable, those alone being perpetuated which were beneficial to individuals in whom they appeared.

  29. You know that though the offspring of all plants and animals is in the main like the parent, yet that in almost every instance slight deviations occur, and that sometimes there is even considerable divergence from the parent type.

  30. The brown spotting is all right and an unpigmented shell is not an impossibility, but deviations from the characteristic greenish blue of the ground-color have not since been reported.

  31. This bird is sui generis, and deviations from all known rules are its delight.

  32. As pilot plants they experiment with deviations from existing social norms, acting as a social laboratory in which new ideas and practices are tested, modified, accepted, rejected.

  33. As the complexity of civilizations has increased, variations and deviations have grown in number and intensity.

  34. There were variations, innovations, deviations from the norm, but institutions and practices were strikingly similar.

  35. In western civilization the number of experiments has increased and the span of their deviations seems to have broadened.

  36. For he who is acquainted with the paths of nature, will more readily observe her deviations; and, vice versa, he who has learned her deviations will be able more accurately to describe her paths.

  37. At this point, but with many fantastic deviations due to his prevailing romanticism, he was partly of the classic temper.

  38. It is obscure by multitudinous fancies put in whether they have to do with the subject or not, and by multitudinous deviations within those fancies.

  39. Although we have stated it to average about eighteen or twenty inches,[119] we have met with extreme deviations both within as well as beyond this medium length.

  40. This is evident from many deviations in the rhythmic accentuation of such words from the modern accentuation which we here regard as normal, though it is to be noted that in the beginning of the Modern English epoch, i.

  41. Hence, all the deviations before mentioned from the strict formal structure of even-beat verses occur even in this early poem, and quite regularly constructed couplets are indeed but rare in it.

  42. Certain deviations from the ordinary iambic rhythm which partly disturb the agreement of the number of accented and unaccented syllables in a line are more frequent in Middle English than in Modern English poetry.

  43. But in addition to these, blank verse has several other deviations from the normal rhymed five-foot iambic verse, the emancipation from rhyme having had the effect of producing greater variability of metrical structure.

  44. In the older native verse accordingly we seldom find deviations from this fundamental rule, whereas in the newer foreign metres they are more frequent and striking.

  45. It was in general perfectly well known regarding Aristotle that he had erred, and also where he erred; books had even been written dealing with his deviations from the faith.

  46. He entitles that portion of his treatise directed against deviations from the Rule: “Concerning the wild beasts who lay waste the religious life.

  47. If strange and rare deviations of structure are really inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable.

  48. The heretic is made manifest alike by his deviations from the doctrines and the precepts of revelation.


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