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Example sentences for "private individuals"

  • There must be in Pangasinan between ten thousand and twelve thousand half-pacified tributes, two thousand belonging to his Majesty, and the rest to private individuals.

  • There must be in the province of Manila forty thousand tributes belonging to private individuals, and almost twenty thousand belonging to your Majesty.

  • Fifteen hundred, or a little more, belong to his Majesty, and the rest to private individuals.

  • Five thousand of them belong to his Majesty, and the rest to private individuals.

  • Whether kings or private individuals, they made their preparations while they were still alive, and caused their tombs to be constructed under their own eyes.

  • Direct Prosecutions of private Individuals in the federal Courts.

  • The external relations of a people may be compared to those of private individuals, and they cannot be advantageously maintained without the agency of the single head of a government.

  • Not only are private individuals thus incited to prosecute public officers, but the public officers are encouraged in the same manner to bring the disobedience of private individuals to justice.

  • When the two parties are not private individuals, but states, an important political consideration is added to the same motive of equity.

  • But members of a Government can in their private life perform as many internationally injurious acts as private individuals, and we must ascertain therefore what kind of responsibility their State must bear for such acts.

  • One of the reasons why the company's business was practically neglected during these last years was because many of its members began to trade to Africa as private individuals.

  • The banks suffered just as all others suffered, and it is difficult to see why the state should make good the losses of the banks in Confederate bonds and not make good the losses of private individuals.

  • In all places where there were government factories there also were found factories conducted by private individuals.

  • What kind of public wealth should be given into absolute control of private individuals or impersonal corporations?

  • In the United States certain land was reserved for school purposes, and if retained would now in some cases be yielding an almost incredible amount for public use; but it has usually been sold to private individuals.

  • We don't invoice them at the same price if we are selling them to private individuals; but when we sell them to a retail dealer, we invoice them at the same price.

  • I referred to what the shawls would be sold for to private individuals in the town.

  • Have you known any cases in which women, in a state of distress for food, have sold their clothes to private individuals for it, or have endeavoured to do so?

  • If I am selling to a private individual, I may but it is very seldom that I sell to private individuals.

  • The revolution of 1836 saw the downfall of the priests, and most of these missions passed by fraud into the hands of private individuals, and with them the Indians were transferred as serfs of the land.

  • The same comparison may be made with respect to private individuals, who are able to gather a few hides and a few arrobas of tallow, these being in small quantities.

  • It was further ordered that when these foals, given to the king's receiver, had reached the third year, they were to be given to private individuals as before on the same terms.

  • But one thing seems certain arose from this affair; namely, that if the interests of the country were sacrificed by this convention, private individuals, at least, reaped great advantage therefrom.

  • In all measures for the public good, the rights of private individuals should be regarded, but, by this treaty, they were manifestly sacrificed.

  • Public charity done by the State is useful and necessary under the conditions of modern life, but it does not and cannot take the place of charity done by the Church or by private individuals.

  • Organized at the beginning of the sixteenth century as a means for the conveyance of state letters, its messengers, by tacit consent, were allowed to carry the letters of private individuals.

  • The Post Office had for its own use a table of places along the great roads,[391] and from the middle of the seventeenth century, private individuals began to publish road maps.

  • There was then no suggestion of an exchange system, and the company proposed merely to supply telephones and wires to private individuals.

  • But when the herds drifted into the hands of private individuals, then the exchange between individuals prevailed more and more, until it became the established form.

  • Wealth increased rapidly, but it was the wealth of private individuals.

  • As far back as we can trace written history we find the land divided up and in the possession of private individuals.

  • During the Greek and Roman period the temple of San was enriched by the statues of private individuals, and doubtless this fragment belonged to one of them.

  • Among the countless votive offerings with which a great building like that at Karnak was filled, there were a few statues of private individuals.

  • An initial distinction between these royal statues and the portraits of private individuals is found in the materials employed.

  • Thus rent, like interest, will be found indispensable as a measure under any efficient system of society, even if it might not always represent the payment of sums of money to private individuals.

  • You would be using the instrument of the rate of interest to adjust the demand for and supply of capital, though indeed the interest might not be paid away as now to private individuals.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "private individuals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    colored person; east wind; ecclesiastical power; evil heart; literature and; little closer; private banks; private contract; private dining; private enterprise; private estate; private gentleman; private hands; private interest; private land; private letter; private marriage; private member; private parties; private property; private residence; private secretary; private ship; private theatricals; rested upon; will suffer