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Example sentences for "inception"

Lexicographically close words:
incenses; incensing; incentive; incentives; incept; inceptive; incerta; incertaine; incertitude; incertum
  1. From the time of this inception of juristic studies, the talents of the doctors, and the city's fame, drew a prodigious concourse of students from all the lands of western Europe.

  2. In the chief instance selected for illustration, this line of evolution took its inception in the exigencies and inspiration of the Alleluia chant or jubilation.

  3. And in this respect at least the decadence of scholasticism took its inception from this bold and virile mind which had small reverence for popes or for the idols of the schools.

  4. At the inception of the attack it was defended by a slender company of thirty men, who offered so stubborn a defence that the assailants were held in check until assistance arrived.

  5. Thus perished that noble structure, which owed its inception to that art-loving monarch, Francois I.

  6. The inception of the whole work in Dumas' mind, as he says, came to him while he was making research in the "Bibliotheque Royale" for his history of Louis XIV.

  7. He staked in its inception a large portion of his private fortune on its success.

  8. I have taken full notes of its whole course from its embryo inception to the present time.

  9. This spirit took fast hold on the people of Rhode Island at the very inception of the Revolution.

  10. At the very inception of the work New York was honored in the appointment of Martin H.

  11. From the very inception of the work upon which this Commission entered, Mr. Ball has proven to be most loyal and faithful, and has ever been ready and willing to carry out the instructions of this Commission.

  12. The inception and development of this art faience of Copenhagen is due to Mr. Frederik Dalgas, who brought a keen and virile intuition into this new field of ceramic adventure.

  13. Horniman, who published a history of the progress of the work from its inception down to 1836.

  14. The inception of the crystalline glaze was due to Hr.

  15. Further than that the guaranteeing companies, generally speaking, have been operating since their inception upon a rising market, so that their success hitherto has not been remarkable.

  16. To this fatal time I owe the inception of that sad infirmity of which I have never been able to completely cure myself.

  17. Although this was very crude pedagogical training, it may be regarded as the inception of the normal school, which has now come to be an essential part of every educational system.

  18. The revival of learning, which had its inception in Italy and spread northward, found its most important expression in the new interest awakened in the classic languages.

  19. Pietism had its inception during the latter part of the seventeenth century, and it extended through the first half of the eighteenth century.

  20. Our civilization had its inception in that of ancient Egypt, and thence its logical development must be traced.

  21. In the two great Sanitary Fairs, which were held in Chicago, the efforts of Mrs. Hoge were unwearied from the inception of the idea until the close of the successful realization.

  22. It was indeed a giant plan, and it may be chiefly credited, from its inception to its fortunate close, to these indefatigable and skilful workers.

  23. The inception of that noble work, and noble monument of American patriotism, the United States Sanitary Commission, had its date in the early days of the war.

  24. All pleasurable emotions that have their inception in the senses are, fundamentally, of carnal origin.

  25. In following up the chain of evolution in animal life from its inception in primordial protoplasm to its end, as we now find it, we discover that the interlinking organisms are, in the beginning, either asexual or hermaphroditic.

  26. So very ancient was the inception of the worship of the generative principle that we have some reason for believing that even the cave-dwellers practiced this cult.

  27. The Inception of the Plan to Subdue the Itzas, 1689.

  28. Stockham says: "Many a drunkard owes his lifelong appetite for alcohol to the fact that the inception of his life could be traced to a night of dissipation on the part of his father.

  29. Unusual excitement to the social, intellectual or religious powers on the parents just prior to the inception of the new life frequently produce in the child corresponding tendencies.

  30. The Church Missionary Society had been watching its proceedings with a jealous eye, and from the moment of the Association's inception had adopted an attitude of hostility towards it.

  31. The first of these exceptions was the insurrection of Hone Heke in 1845, which was not in its inception a dispute regarding land, but an undisguised protest against the exercise of the Queen's sovereignty.

  32. There is little doubt that in its inception the Association had a large measure of philanthropy underlying its principles, for it was the outcome of the unsatisfactory social conditions existing in England at that period.

  33. To-morrow we shall announce the birth of the Manhattan Traction Company, explaining its inception and its intentions.

  34. Gorham's business training, previous to the inception of the Consolidated Companies, had been in accord with the universal business code, quite at variance with the idealistic basis which he himself had now established.

  35. In Bullfinch's Oregon and El Dorado is a very interesting narration of the inception of the American part in the fur-trade of Oregon.

  36. It is the inception of the idea which it engenders by a series of results.

  37. In a word, everything which presents itself to us, coming in contact with one of our senses, is a perception; otherwise, the inception of an idea.

  38. Not only does common sense not exclude beauty, but it really aids in its inception and protects its growth by maintaining the reasons which produced its appearance.

  39. He also hazarded a prediction that the failure of the insurrection would have a deterrent effect on the political clubs, which he blamed almost entirely for the inception of the insurgent spirit.

  40. Madison was no doubt in touch with the inception of the Kentucky Resolutions.

  41. Names prominent at the inception of the rebellion had disappeared from the rolls, and mediocrity ruled.

  42. Therefore, as the fraudulent character of the pre-emption or homestead claim in its inception may be brought in question, it is right that the parties in interest should have an opportunity in all cases to be heard.

  43. No doubt many of these were of earlier composition, but it must be remembered that to Chopin it was not the inception of a work which was laborious.

  44. It is possible that one or two of them may have been written at Valdemosa, whence also may have come the inception of the Ballade in F major, the two Polonaises, Op.

  45. It may be said with perfect truth that to him, more than to any other one man, had been due the inception and the continuance of the Peary Arctic Club, and the success of the work thus far.


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