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Example sentences for "impairing"

Lexicographically close words:
impacting; impaction; impacts; impair; impaired; impairment; impairs; impala; impale; impaled
  1. By impairing the function of the former, it brings on the shaking paralysis of Delirium tremens.

  2. Further: There is no sin that infinite holiness, infinite power, infinite love, and infinite wisdom cannot subdue, without impairing the freedom of the offender.

  3. We often see that one strong will can dominate a weaker one, without in the least impairing its freedom.

  4. The mild reagents employed soften all the colors of good rugs without bleaching them or impairing their fastness to light.

  5. The statements here advanced are borne out by the fact that the wings of insects, bats and birds may be materially reduced without impairing their powers of flight.

  6. This is proved by making sections in various directions, and by finding that in some instances as much as two-thirds of the wing may be lopped off without materially impairing the power of flight.

  7. But in Israel, where such physical sonship would have been rejected with horror as impairing the Divine holiness, the spiritual sonship was asserted of the individual much more slowly.

  8. If a State could not pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts between private persons, neither could it invalidate a contract made by itself.

  9. Then, too, everybody knew "that one session of a Legislature cannot annul the contracts made by the preceding session"; for did not the National Constitution forbid any State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts?

  10. So it was that the provision, "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," was placed in the Constitution.

  11. Therefore, it was provided in America's fundamental law that "no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.

  12. Moreover, the National Constitution expressly forbade a State to pass an act impairing the obligation of contracts.

  13. In this manner the provision that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts" was inserted in the Constitution.

  14. All State insolvent laws, so-called, that distribute a debtor's property equally among his creditors, are laws impairing the natural obligation of his contracts.

  15. Such a law is plainly a law impairing the natural obligation of their contracts.

  16. No State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.

  17. She shall pass no bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of a contract.

  18. The theory of impairing the obligation of contracts they introduced, but they did not insist on it, or hope for much from it.

  19. Saunders, heard in 1827, Mr. Webster argued that the clause prohibiting state laws impairing the obligation of contracts covered future as well as past contracts.

  20. It was an admirable and every way convenient document; good for securing rights, impotent as impairing liberties.

  21. The quality of the food has nothing further to do with the production of scurvy than by impairing the general health, for it has often happened that putrid food has been long used without scorbutic symptoms arising.

  22. Some enlightened members, including Judge Gholson, afterward of the Federal Court, protested against this act as unconstitutional, by impairing the obligation of contracts, and as a fraud on the bondholders.

  23. For it is of the greatest importance to avoid, by every means, the exciting of feelings of irritation and resentment in the mind of the child, so far as it is possible to do this without impairing the efficiency of the punishment.

  24. But banish swinish drunkards out of thine house, which is a vice impairing health, consuming much and makes no show.

  25. Of the first named, it has been observed that when he was not impairing a naturally delicate constitution with drastic medicines and protracted fasts, he would sometimes eat and drink excessively.

  26. I have thrown out these ideas that I may have it distinctly understood that my opinion on this point is not founded on the provision in the Constitution of the United States, relative to laws impairing the obligation of contracts.

  27. Belligerent occupation is a fact impairing the usual jurisdiction, but it does not transfer sovereignty.

  28. By impairing her standing in the community the general rating of her value as a human being, and consequently as a worker, is lowered.

  29. It has seemed practicable to reduce very greatly the length of this one without impairing its efficiency by asking the reader to bear in mind a few simple facts as to the arrangement of the History.

  30. Self-imposed restrictions, almost imperceptible and hardly worth mentioning, termed usages of International Law, accompany it without essentially impairing its power.

  31. His dispositions equally threatened each of these possible enterprises, without in the least degree impairing his ability instantly to concentrate his entire force for the execution of any one of them.

  32. Rapid changes of temperature act as an exciting cause of laminitis by impairing the normal blood supply.

  33. Other feeds act by leading to constipation and other disorders of the digestive organs, thus impairing the general health.


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