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Example sentences for "individuals"

Lexicographically close words:
individualization; individualize; individualized; individualizing; individually; individuated; individuating; individuation; individuo; individuos
  1. To other individuals of his suite, she gave chains of pearl, rings, and pictures.

  2. What I think I know is that some individuals and peoples have not yet really thought about death and immortality, have not felt them, and that others have ceased to think about them, or rather ceased to feel them.

  3. It is true that in certain individuals there occur what are called changes of personality; but these are pathological cases, and as such are studied by alienists.

  4. The author has compared the physical, demographic, and mental characters of the upper and leisured classes with the same characters in individuals of the inferior and poor classes.

  5. In maize, and presumably in most other plants and animals in which cross-fertilization is the rule, all individuals are usually complicated hybrids between different varieties of genotype.

  6. In face of these difficulties there naturally arises the idea of inferring the psycho-physical aptitudes of individuals from their social and economic position, or from their income, which is easily measured.

  7. They would tend to facilitate the education of individuals and public bodies; at the same time they would assure the strict application of the laws concerning the protection and education of childhood.

  8. The aim of the Eugenist, on the other hand, is to control human mating in order to obtain the largest proportion of individuals he considers best fitted to the form of society which he affects.

  9. To put this automatical selecting-machine into action, certain individuals appear, possessing special physical and intellectual gifts that distinguish them spontaneously from the mass of the party.

  10. Sidenote: C 115] Even where there is no high degree of inbreeding, the individuals of a people are much more closely related to each other than is generally assumed.

  11. The two types appear, side by side, in different individuals of the same fraternity.

  12. The figures directly above the fraternity line indicate the rank in birth, a figure inside a square or circle shows the number of individuals of that sex.

  13. Male individuals are indicated by squares and females by circles.

  14. These individuals are very numerous in the city, and are generally to be found amongst the most desperate and wicked of the disreputable classes.

  15. When this had been ascertained to their satisfaction, the next thing to be done was to identify the individual or individuals belonging to the said gang, who had committed the robbery.

  16. This communion, however, is purely spiritual in character, and is conditioned upon the disinterested and selfless love of the individuals for each other.

  17. Regarding Baha’i women using facial make-up: individuals are entirely free to do as they please in such purely personal matters.

  18. Shoghi Effendi hopes that Aqa Mirza Moneer will cause another stir in India and draw many individuals into a full understanding of the movement.

  19. Shoghi Effendi knows the different individuals involved, he knows their integrity and faith in the Cause and its spirit.

  20. If individuals feel, after the advice of the N.

  21. It should be left to the individuals concerned to decide among themselves.

  22. The methods adopted by the American Baha’i community, the zeal, the initiative, the efficiency, the fidelity with which they are prosecuting their enterprise should be exemplified by individuals and Assemblies in India and Burma.

  23. But even then no reference to individuals should be made.

  24. The row of men in khaki became a crowd of various individuals with dusty boots and dusty faces.

  25. It omits essential factors in the process, and therefore supposes forces to act automatically and invariably which will in fact be profoundly modified in societies differently organised and composed of individuals differing in character.

  26. Mill triumphs over the unfortunate realists who held that a class meant a mysterious entity, existing somewhere apart from all the individuals in which it is embodied.

  27. Religion injures individuals by prescribing useless and painful practices: fasting, celibacy, voluntary self-torture, and so forth.

  28. The class simply means the aggregate of resembling individuals without any selection of the common attributes which are, in J.

  29. We then find that error and understanding do not exclude one another, but are two species of the same genus, two individuals of the same family.

  30. The interests of the individuals are at war with those of society.

  31. The bad and the good pictures belong to the same family, and all families finally belong to the absolute, are individuals of the universe.

  32. By combining all individuals into one aggregate whole, their contradictory relations are merged into the social units, viz.

  33. These valiant individuals then returned and were soon busy with a hiccuping chorus of "Rule, Britannia".

  34. Still, as society grows more and more complex, orderly and stable, there is, no doubt, again some natural selection of those individuals who are capable of undergoing the requisite accommodations.

  35. It is true that even at a low level of culture individuals are found for whom common sense constitutes a private standard, and who are sceptics in relation to their tribal beliefs.

  36. Originates with the names of individuals or of groups?

  37. They may be grouped into two classes, according as they assume the totemic names to have been originally names of individuals or of whole clans.

  38. The cost of such copying must doubtless have been considerable; amounting to a sum which few private individuals would have been either able or willing to disburse.

  39. Various eminent speculative individuals were labouring to construct such theories, each in his own way, and each with a certain congregation of partisans; but established theory there was none.

  40. The encounter group is confined to interactions between separate individuals and usually these individuals have not known each other before joining the group and probably will not continue association afterwards.

  41. First, marital therapy is undertaken with couples who have serious problems, often because the individuals concerned suffer from personality disorders.

  42. This feeling must be awakened in individuals before one can elevate a people.

  43. We may well suppose that all the individuals of the faction which employed this person are loaded with praise, and their enemies with abuse.

  44. They resemble, in some degree, certain people, who, alluding to individuals of a rank superior to their own say, we know the gentlemen but the gentlemen know not us.

  45. Every Athenian voted in his tribe; all the individuals in the tribe knew each other; no stranger could have put in his bean.

  46. They appear before you in their public capacities, but the individuals you know not.

  47. Now, Lawless, as those who have followed his turbulent career are aware, was one of those hapless individuals who seem to be marked out as the sport of destiny.

  48. He was domiciled temporarily in the local prison, and on the following morning an escort took him to another part of the building and ushered him into a sort of office where various uniformed individuals were gathered.

  49. As the disposition of individuals to violence diminished, and as the habits of the people became more civilized, and as power grew more demoralized through lack of restraint, this advantage disappeared.

  50. And in addition to this the state, for whose sake individuals renounced their personal advantages, is exposed again to the same risks of insecurity and lack of permanence as the individual himself was in previous times.

  51. But instead of doing that they expose the individuals to the same necessity of strife, substituting strife with individuals of other states for strife with neighbors.

  52. In the social conception of life it is supposed that since the aim of life is found in groups of individuals, individuals will voluntarily sacrifice their own interests for the interests of the group.

  53. Through tradition handed down by education and supported by religious sentiment, individuals without compulsion merged their interests in the interest of the group and sacrificed their own good for the general welfare.

  54. Between the members of one state, subject to a single authority, the strife between individuals seems still less and the life of the state seems even more secure.

  55. In bringing them to the light it should be stated that--for obvious reasons--fictitious names have been given to the individuals chiefly concerned, but the facts are just as stated.

  56. Besides which, during his active life in Lexington, he had at all times considerable practice as consulting and analytical chemist, making for individuals many analyses not included in the above.

  57. The enterprising individuals who remained to her were not sufficient in numbers to dispel by their most strenuous exertions the lethargy which had fallen upon the place.

  58. The rights of individuals may relate to a variety of subjects, and be comprehended under different heads.

  59. Of the order in which Individuals are recommended by nature to our care and attention.

  60. Individuals stood distinguished by their personal spirit and vigour, not by the valuation of their estates, or the rank of their birth.

  61. Let those examples be compared with the spirit which reigns in a commercial state, where men may be supposed to have experienced, in its full extent, the interest which individuals have in the preservation of their country.

  62. A whole people, like the individuals of whom they are composed, act under the influence of temporary humours, sanguine hopes, or vehement animosities.

  63. The public interest is often secure, not because individuals are disposed to regard it as the end of their conduct, but because each, in his place, is determined to preserve his own.

  64. We love individuals on account of personal qualities; but we love our country, as it is a party in the divisions of mankind; and our zeal for its interest, is a predilection in behalf of the side we maintain.

  65. As individuals we are summoned by the call of God to resist iniquity, and to make peace and reconciliation with Him through obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.


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