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Example sentences for "problem"

Lexicographically close words:
proben; probes; probi; probing; probity; problema; problematic; problematical; probleme; problems
  1. Which judgments remain as the significant ones, the ones which are used to solve the problem finally, depends on which concepts are the most vital for us with reference to the ultimate end in view.

  2. The easier and more important problem for us is to describe the processes by which the mind comes to know its environment, and to see how it uses this knowledge in thinking.

  3. But let the highway split into two roads at a fork, only one of which leads to the desired destination, and now a problem confronts him; he must take one road or the other, but which?

  4. What it is that thinks and feels and wills in us is too hard a problem for us here--indeed, has been too hard a problem for the philosophers through the ages.

  5. And what a problem the senses have to solve!

  6. Outside thoughts which have no relation to the subject in hand may not trouble us much, but we do not attack our problem with vim.

  7. The first problem in education, then, is to take the unripe and inefficient nervous system and so develop it in connection with the growing mind that the possibilities which nature has stored in it shall become actualities.

  8. Do you find that you understand better some difficult point or problem after you have succeeded in stating it?

  9. Everyone has experienced the feeling of the pleasure of intellectual victory over some difficult problem which had baffled the reason, or over some doubtful case in which our judgment proved correct.

  10. The problem for our thought is not so much one of invention or discovery as of grasp and assimilation.

  11. The problem in education is so to balance selfishness and greed with unselfishness and generosity that each serves as a check and a balance to the other.

  12. Part III is taken up with the problem of socializing the child through the curriculum and the school discipline.

  13. Herr Katschuka, during this passionate speech, had worked out the problem of what he was to answer.

  14. The key to this problem was not to be found.

  15. Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired--any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be.

  16. Before astronomy presented Hipparchus with the problem of solar tables, there was nothing to raise the question of the relations between lines and angles; the subject-matter of trigonometry had not been conceived.

  17. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is--the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances.

  18. The solution of yesterday's problem helps the pupil in mastering to-day's.

  19. To make, out of cardboard, a tetrahedron like one given to him, is a problem which will interest the pupil and serve as a convenient starting-point.

  20. When next she says she knows something more about the object than he has told her, his pride is roused; he looks at it intently; he thinks over all that he has heard; and the problem being easy, presently finds it out.

  21. Stanton puzzled over his problem a long time, long after Mrs. Stanton had forsaken the easy chair and had disappeared from the scene.

  22. Smith changed his street clothes leisurely after Starbuck had gone, and made ready to go down to the cafe dinner, turning over in his mind, meanwhile, the problem whose solution he had tried to extract from his late visitor.

  23. Stanton was still wrestling with his problem when the "handsome couple" returned from the play.

  24. George looked at the stick long and curiously with a puzzled, concentrated expression, as one might assume when examining a novel and interesting problem demanding prompt solution.

  25. The problem of sex, which bewilders the faithless European, is solved satisfactorily to the Hindoo by a virgin prayerful and pure.

  26. Even should our endeavour to finally solve the great problem of 'Hamlet' be made in vain, we believe we shall at least have pointed out a way on which others might be more successful.

  27. Only a citizen from a certain period of ancient Rome would be able to decide whether this difficult but thankless problem had been solved.

  28. We think we have solved the problem as to the nature of Hamlet's madness, and to have shown why thought and action, in him, cannot be brought into a satisfactory harmony.

  29. In the face of what appear to be iron-clad rules and endless red tape, it is a problem how these things can happen without the knowledge of responsible officials!

  30. This cultivation and infusion of new blood has relieved and revived the depressed spirit of the first American to a noticeable degree, and his health problem will be successfully met if those who are entrusted with it will do their duty.

  31. The question that haunts me, the problem I cannot disentangle, is what is or what ought our purpose to be?

  32. The reason why very few uneducated persons have been writers of note, is because they have been unable to take up the problem at the right point.

  33. The problem too is so complicated, that it requires a gigantic faith in a reformer to suggest the sowing of seed of which he can never hope to see the fruit.

  34. Moreover, the real difficulty is not to see what the classes on whom the problem presses most grimly NEED, but what they WANT.

  35. One cannot solve the problem of happiness by simply trying to turn out of one's life whatever is uncongenial.

  36. The answer at present seems to be in the negative; and the problem seems to be solved only by the fact that all are not capable of honest work, and that the weaklings give the strong their opportunity.

  37. He directs the whole power of his mentality to the one problem and solves it with accuracy and dispatch.

  38. It requires but one step, and not a difficult one at that, to lead you to the conclusion that the solution of this problem lies in having in consciousness at any one moment only such ideas as harmonize.

  39. If two Presidents are inaugurated then comes the problem of money and munitions.

  40. I was very stupid not to think of this solution to the problem at once.

  41. It is a problem to avoid fatigue, and yet take exercise enough to keep in order the general functions and particularly the digestion.

  42. We come here to the darkest problem of existence.

  43. But every step we take onwards towards a more reasonable faith and a surer light of Truth leads us nearer and nearer to the problem of problems, "What is That which men call God?

  44. Are you aware of the problem they have downstairs in the out-patient clinic?

  45. Both agreed to take the problem back to their own departments.

  46. It occurred to me that your interest in the out-clinic problem was commendable, and that I was rather short in my remarks to you.

  47. He made no complicated plan for the problem before him, but proposed to solve it by plain, hard, persistent fighting.

  48. It was the same problem that has confronted millions of young Americans before and since.

  49. It was natural, therefore, that they should regard it as the heaven-sent solution of their problem of travel and traffic with the outside world.

  50. In that hour, grappling resolutely and alone with the problem before him, he completed what was really the first act of his Presidency--the choice of his cabinet, of the men who were to aid him.

  51. And the problem of the missing bullion boxes was quite as puzzling in its way as the mysterious way in which Mr. Skidmore had met his death.

  52. In some such mood as this, his mind bent on a problem of arrangement of fiction puppets, seeing "men as trees walking," he found himself one day making his bows at a court function.

  53. CONCH'OID, a plane curve invented to solve the problem of trisecting a plane angle, doubling the cube, &c.

  54. When, at last, I did go to bed I had not made much progress in the problem of the cat, but I did believe that there was a rat in the vicinity.

  55. She saved me the problem of inventing a satisfactory answer.

  56. Lister is thoroughly puzzled by this procedure, but the problem is very simple: just treat the pig like wild boar.

  57. All these stories of the heathen Gods prove as conclusively as any scientific problem can be demonstrated by figures, that the same stories related of Jesus Christ have no other foundation than that of heathen tradition.

  58. The problem is to make a man read who won't read of his own accord.

  59. The whole problem of summer mathematics reeks to heaven.

  60. Harrington asserts that he has never been able to see how either phenomenon is possible, but the problem is only half as difficult as it appears.

  61. By a stroke of genius Froebel has found what the wise men of all times have sought in vain,--the solution of the problem of human education.

  62. She passed legislation on the difficult problem of ridding the church of inefficient ministers.

  63. Parker states a similar argument in the form in which it suited the special problem of his day.

  64. When there is such mistaken simplification, the reasoning may seem to have complete certainty, and yet it fails to produce conviction, because it does not profess to deal with the problem in all its aspects.

  65. We thought it would take a long time even if the nation were willing to tackle the problem seriously, which it has not yet shown any anxiety to do.

  66. It is all nonsense to say that the problem of destitution is unsolvable or that our resources will not bear the institution of a standard living wage for everybody and not for the aristocracy of labor only.

  67. It was the solution of a problem that had long appeared to me to be insoluble.

  68. The Science of Dogmas and Philosophy If less burning, the problem of the relations of dogmatics to philosophy is perhaps more difficult to solve than the problem just discussed.

  69. The problem of human destiny appeared to the later prophets as less simple and more tragic.

  70. Each new recruit to the human race brings the problem along with him, because he wishes to live, and to live is to act, and all action requires a faith.

  71. If the essence of Christianity lies in the revelation of natural truths or supernatural dogmas, the problem is insoluble.

  72. From these two tendencies, perpetual and parallel, have issued the two solutions given by Rationalism and by Orthodoxy to the problem as to the essence of Christianity.

  73. Now, the whole theological problem is how to reconcile the two.

  74. But that explanation simply puts the problem further back; it does not solve it The necessity which I experience in my individual life I find to be still more invincible in the collective life of humanity.

  75. One of the most evident marks of the inferiority of the philosophy of French positivism is that it has not even approached this problem of knowledge, and that it has been able to constitute itself without any other than the popular psychology.

  76. Taking account of the gradual accumulation of fact and theory we find at the time of Lavoisier, from which the modern aspect of the problem dates, that Stahl's theoretical views were generally accepted.

  77. Numerous and repeated direct experimental attacks had been made [p015] from time to time upon the problem of the existence of a fermentation enzyme, but all had yielded negative or unreliable results.

  78. The same problem has been attacked quantitatively by Slator, who has shown that living yeast of various species and genera ferments glucose and fructose at approximately the same rate.

  79. In the light of this discovery the contribution to the truth made by each of the great protagonists in the prolonged discussion on the problem of alcoholic fermentation can be discerned with some degree of clearness.

  80. This suggestive fact at once directed his attention to the problem of the origin of the amyl alcohols in alcoholic fermentation.

  81. Theodor Schwann [1837], whose researches were quite independent of those of Cagniard-Latour, approached the problem from an entirely different point of view.

  82. In it he admits the vegetable nature of yeast, but does not regard Pasteur's conclusion as in any way a solution of the problem of the nature of alcoholic fermentation.

  83. The problem will be discussed hereafter, but we must note here that the Radicals of Birmingham believed it to be a political issue, which justified the use of party organisation as much as the issues that arose in Parliament.

  84. But if the parliamentary system has proved an instrument ill-fitted for ruling Ireland, it is also true that the problem has been one of extreme difficulty.


  85. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "problem" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ado; aggravation; annoyance; anxiety; baffle; basis; blemish; bore; bother; bug; burden; business; case; catch; catechism; challenge; complication; concern; confusion; crack; crux; defect; defection; deficiency; demand; devilment; difficult; difficulty; dilemma; disadvantage; discomposure; disturbance; dogging; downfall; drag; drawback; embarrassment; enigma; essence; evil; examine; exasperation; failing; failure; fault; feeler; fix; flaw; foible; frailty; gist; harassment; head; headache; heading; hitch; hole; illustration; imperfection; inadequacy; inconvenience; infirmity; inquiry; interrogation; interrogative; issue; jam; kink; knot; leader; lookout; matter; meat; motif; motive; mystery; nuisance; paradox; perplexity; persecution; perturbation; pest; pickle; plight; point; poser; pother; predicament; problem; puzzle; puzzler; quandary; query; question; reverse; riddle; rift; rubric; scrape; shortcoming; snag; snarl; stew; sticker; subject; substance; taint; text; theme; topic; trial; trouble; upset; vexation; weakness; why; worry