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Example sentences for "establish"

Lexicographically close words:
esso; est; esta; estaba; estaban; established; establisher; establishes; establisheth; establishing
  1. A project has also recently taken form to establish a line between Quebec and the Hudson Bay Company's posts north of the Columbia River.

  2. The method by which men of science establish the existence of that law is exactly the same as that by which we have established the trivial proposition about the sourness of hard and green apples.

  3. But I have long been convinced that neither can the absence of 'dendrites' be regarded as indicative of recent age, nor their presence as sufficient to establish the great antiquity of the objects upon which they occur.

  4. If we were to examine every animal in a similar manner, we should establish a complete body of zoological morphology.

  5. No transitional forms between existing species are known; and known varieties, whether selected or spontaneous, never go so far as to establish new species.

  6. There is nothing in this fact that hybrids cannot breed with each other, to establish such a theory; there is nothing to prevent the Horse breeding with the Ass, or the Ass with the Horse.

  7. He has studied history, and he finds that to establish justice, between man and man and between nation and nation, has been the supreme object of every reformer since the world began.

  8. Third, the supreme object of these orations, so different from the majority of political speeches, is not to win approval or to gain votes, but to establish the truth.

  9. Through it all Newman retained his serenity, and, though a master of irony and satire, kept his literary power always subordinate to his chief aim, which was to establish the truth as he saw it.

  10. All her novels aim, first, to show in individuals the play of universal moral forces, and second, to establish the moral law as the basis of human society.

  11. The references to love and home and quiet joys in Shakespeare's plays are enough, if we take such evidence, to establish firmly the opposite supposition, that his love was a very happy one.

  12. All this examination is designed to do is to establish the fact that there is no gross injury to the chest posteriorly.

  13. The examination conducted was one to try to establish what life threatening situations were present and to correct these.

  14. Before--well, in trying to treat an acutely injured patient, you have to establish an airway, adequate ventilation and you have to establish adequate circulation.

  15. This was the extreme protective manoeuvre, a hedge of bearers drawn up on either side of the canopy, each placing an arm firmly round his neighbour's neck, so as to establish a sort of living wall.

  16. We now know why, for a whole series of centuries, men would not follow in the footsteps of Aristotle, who was the first to establish theoretically the sphericity of the earth.

  17. The invention of telescopes suddenly enlarged the question, and it became necessary to establish a line of demarcation between the number of stars visible to the naked eye and the number visible through the agency of the telescope.

  18. Attempt, then, to establish your absolute rules!

  19. I received from the executive council a mandate to establish the bank, with the head office in Victoria, and four branches, one each at Nanaimo, New Westminster, Yale and Cariboo.

  20. They announced that from October 1 Brussels would be considered as part of German territory, and that they intended to re-establish the local postal service from that date.

  21. They did re-establish postal communication between Brussels and Germany, and issued a special set of four stamps.

  22. Hence, she supported the Liberal Government; and, as an earnest of her intentions, started operations by attempting to establish contact with von Abel, the head of the Ultramontane Ministry.

  23. She wanted to establish a salon and to give receptions.

  24. Better luck befell the wanderer at her next attempt to establish intimate contact with a member of the hoch geboren, Henry LXXII.

  25. It thrives only because it pretends to satisfy an intense human craving--the desire to re-establish personal relations with the dead.

  26. As long as you do not establish a business and a residence anywhere I don't care what you do.

  27. This will effect the continuous tone, useful not alone as a corrective for the tendencies to loud singing, but also to establish good breathing-habits.

  28. There is nothing in Homer absolutely to contradict the opinion that Danaus was Egyptian; but neither is there anything which suffices conclusively to establish it.

  29. To make Sarpedon the son of Jupiter was at once to establish some relationship with the Greek races.

  30. There is abundance of testimony among authors, both Greek and Roman, to establish the relation of the Pelasgi to the old forms of the language of both countries.

  31. If we observe the shadings, attached to these words respectively by means of the epithets which Homer annexes to them, we shall find they establish perceptible distinctions.

  32. Nor does he establish any relation whatever between any of the four races and any common ancestor or eponymist.

  33. Over and above this, the name Iasus goes of itself to establish a Pelasgian origin.

  34. According to this, no amount of evidence could establish the fact that water freezes and becomes solid in a country where such is not the ordinary course of nature.

  35. The evidences necessary to establish genuineness of authorship are ten-fold greater in the case of the New Testament Scriptures than in the case of the histories of Alexander, Julius Cæsar and Cyrus, as given by ancient writers.

  36. This was ordained by Plato, in order to establish in the commonwealth such a perfect unity that no man might be able to say, that is thine, or this is mine.

  37. Being as well armed as ourselves, they would then turn upon us, and, having destroyed us, proceed to establish leaders of their own.

  38. As a result, all the protection that could be given was to bend back the trenches on either side down the hill, and establish strong posts and make entanglements from side to side of the gully.

  39. The fight he put up on these Lone Pine trenches would be enough to establish that reputation for him were there not other deeds to his credit.

  40. This, it was thought, would surely establish the treasonable nature of the Scottish movement.

  41. Kinnoull was ordered to establish his men at Kirkwall, and to occupy himself in levying and drilling the islanders till his chief joined him at the end of the year.

  42. The King, he said, was ready to grant all that honour would permit him, and all that was necessary to establish their religion and liberties; beyond that they should not press him.

  43. How then shall we re-establish the unity of human nature, a unity that appears completely destroyed by this primitive and radical opposition?

  44. Before we seek to discover those higher moral ends which the animal nature assists us in attaining to, we must establish their physical necessity, and come to an agreement as to some fundamental conceptions.

  45. The noble task of comedy is to produce and keep up in us this freedom of mind, just as the end of tragedy is to re-establish in us this freedom of mind by aesthetic ways, when it has been violently suspended by passion.

  46. And can you not Establish some new creed to justify The bloody murder of one's only son?

  47. Come, Lionel, aid me to reconcile These haughty spirits and establish peace.

  48. Humanity has lost its dignity, but art has saved it, and preserves it in marbles full of meaning; truth continues to live in illusion, and the copy will serve to re-establish the model.

  49. The foundations that your proud wisdom tried to establish in my brain and heart are tottering; all the splendid palaces which you erected are crumbling, and the worm crushed to earth is writhing under the ruins.

  50. And yet this strength of character, which is commonly sacrificed to establish aesthetic culture, is the most powerful spring of all that is great and excellent in man, and no other advantage, however great, can make up for it.

  51. Considered in itself, and independently of all spontaneous activity of the mind, sensuousness can only make a material man; without it, it is a pure form; but it cannot in any way establish a union between matter and it.

  52. For the teachers we establish goals of school endeavor and thus unify and articulate all their efforts.

  53. The pastor finds it one of his larger tasks to establish a focus for the thinking of his people in order to induce concerted action.

  54. This is the condition the telephone company tries to establish between its various offices.

  55. These switches, impelled by these impulses, establish the connection if the line called for is not already connected to.

  56. Whether flat rates or measured-service rates are practiced, the general tendency is to establish lower rates for service in homes than in business places.

  57. The arrogance of Pretorius and his crew had now so seriously increased that Sir George Napier, seeing danger ahead, decided to establish a camp near the border of the State, and Durban was occupied.

  58. All thought that the rebellion would serve to strengthen the British in their determination to establish an effectual Government in the country and promote an enduring peace.

  59. By pursuing the policy of confederation we bind States together, we consolidate their resources, and we enable them to establish a strong frontier; and where we have a strong frontier, that is the best security against annexation.

  60. It is the call of the world, it is the voice of one calling to you out of a distant past across the nineteen Christian centuries; it is the "spirit of the years to come," summoning you to establish the Kingdom of God upon earth.

  61. What with Russia's desire to shield her from the consequences of her aggressions and to demonstrate to the world that we are of no account in the Balkans and to establish her own--more or less veiled--protectorate there?

  62. In this volume he calls on Germany to establish a "world sovereignty" by force of arms, and he indicates what should be the twofold purpose of Germany in the next war, namely, to crush France and to establish such world sovereignty of Germany.

  63. If we have been following false gods, let us honestly endeavor to re-establish fundamental and essential values, to discover anew what is of supreme worth and set our faces resolutely toward its realization.

  64. For the arrogance of Russia, who would not "allow" her to re-establish her prestige in a righteous cause?

  65. When this occurs we shall be able to establish an international executive and an international police, both devised for the especial purpose of enforcing the decisions of the international court.

  66. We pacificists must only understand that unhappily the time was not yet sufficiently developed to establish peace by the peaceful way.

  67. The purpose of this book is to clearly establish this important fact in the mind of every patriotic American.

  68. I was enabled to establish my explanation by satisfactory proof; and my acquaintance with the minister assumed something of the character of friendship.

  69. This lacklander clown actually dared to try to establish domination over a member of the ruling class?

  70. Then he probed gently, trying to establish rapport with Dar Girdek.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "establish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodate; adapt; adjust; advertise; appoint; argue; ascertain; assign; assure; author; authorize; ballyhoo; bark; base; bear; bed; beget; begin; bill; boost; bottom; break; breed; broach; build; cause; certify; christen; cinch; clinch; close; commence; conceive; concentrate; condition; confirm; constitute; construct; create; decide; decree; define; demonstrate; determine; develop; domesticate; domicile; effect; effectuate; embed; enact; engender; engrave; ensconce; ensure; entrench; erect; establish; etch; familiarize; fasten; father; firm; fix; float; follow; form; formulate; found; generate; gentle; ground; habituate; halting; harden; identify; imbed; impact; implant; impress; imprint; inaugurate; induct; infix; ingrain; initiate; inscribe; install; insure; introduce; inure; invest; jam; launch; lay; legalize; legislate; locate; lodge; make; materialize; naturalize; occasion; open; ordain; organize; originate; pack; pioneer; pitch; placard; place; plant; plug; position; post; predicate; prescribe; print; produce; promote; prove; publicize; puff; put; raise; ratify; realize; reassure; regulate; root; sanction; satisfy; season; seat; see; sell; settle; show; sire; specify; spiel; stamp; start; stay; stereotype; take; tame; train; validate; verify; vest; wedge; wont; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    establish himself; establish itself; establish justice; establish post; establish schools; establish the; establish their own righteousness; establish themselves; established church; established fact; established harmony; established himself