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Example sentences for "general survey"

  • Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, in his "General Survey," expressed the opinion that Gaelic was dying out; but the Rev.

  • A general survey of President Kennedy's civil rights program is presented by Carl M.

  • Berman's The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970) for a general survey of civil rights in the Truman years.

  • In this chapter I shall not attempt a general survey of Italian society.

  • We may here take a general survey of festivals the times of whose celebration are determined by the divisions of the year, and thus constitute calendars.

  • We are still without a general survey of myths arranged in some orderly fashion.

  • Illustration: Phyllis flashed the torch about in a general survey] "I tell you what!

  • As Phyllis flashed the torch about in a general survey, Leslie noticed that the cottage was obviously dismantled for the winter.

  • Let us begin our study of erosion by a general survey of the striking features of the earth's surface at the present day.

  • When we take a general survey of the face of the earth from the point of view of plant geography, we note three main conditions.

  • An investigation into methods cannot be undertaken in these introductory pages, but a general survey of results may be attempted.

  • Still, a general survey of manorial rights has undoubtedly to start from these fundamental distinctions.

  • If, from a general survey of medieval servitude, we turn to the actual condition of the English peasantry, say in the thirteenth century, the first fact we have to meet will stand in very marked contrast to our general proposition.

  • It remains now to give a general survey of the progress of Polish belles-lettres during the last twenty years; and also of those mixed publications which excite a general interest.

  • It is this immense extent, which adds greatly to the difficulties of a general survey of the different relations and connections of nations, broken up into so many parts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general amnesty; general chapter; general color; general confession; general council; general direction; general discharge; general feeling; general good; general literature; general manager; general peace; general principles; general propositions; general reasoning; general rising; general should; general staff; general system; general term; general ticket; general utility; generally adequate; generally supposed; little table; mind like