Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "programmes"

Lexicographically close words:
programmatic; programme; programmed; programmer; programmers; programming; programs; progres; progreso; progress
  1. Obviously, the programmes that Mr. Thomas proposed to give, and the manner and frequency with which he proposed to give them, brought up the prophetic vision of considerable money loss; but the funds were subscribed.

  2. Conventional explanations—access to wealth, the patronage of powerful political interests, invocations of the occult or aggressive programmes of proselytism that instil fear of Divine wrath—none have played any role in the events involved.

  3. A vast body of scholarly literature in many languages is devoted to exploring practical means for their implementation, and those programmes can count on media attention on five continents.

  4. Naturally, this aspect appeared more clearly in some of the sections than in others, but no one who looks over the titles in the daily programmes can fail to note it.

  5. The daily programmes were well printed and on hand early every morning--a most important point, not always heretofore attained.

  6. Mr Kotankar told me about the SMILE programmes in Bangalore.

  7. One of the programmes of NIE is to have workshops in schools on varied topics.

  8. I found that I had completed most of the things I had set out to do during my sabbatical though there were a few areas like honey bees for which definite programmes had not yet been worked out.

  9. We have seen that many club-programmes are made with an irreducible minimum of intelligence; but even a programme committee with superhuman intellect and angelic goodwill could never compass the solution of such a problem as this.

  10. The making of these programmes betrays, all through its processes and their inevitable result, lack of originality, blind adherence to models, unquestioning imitation of something that has gone before.

  11. I am condemning here all clubs, formed for an avowed educational or cultural purpose, that adopt set programmes and assign the subjects to their own members.

  12. Of this inadequacy our imitative, arbitrary and uninspiring club programmes are a part--the very fact that our clubwomen pin their faith to programmes of any kind is a consequence of it.

  13. If any mistakes are being made in the general policies and programmes of club reading, the librarian would naturally be the first to know it, and he ought to speak out.

  14. The making of programmes has in many cases been influenced by the fact that some subjects are considered more "high-toned" than others.

  15. The type of the programmes was all set up, and Lance had proudly carried the proof round the house, when a note arrived from Edgar.

  16. Nichoune went on her way, bent on getting rid of her burden of programmes with all speed.

  17. High Street, Southampton, may be consulted with advantage, as an attempt is made therein to give the whole of the club programmes for the season, so far as they are known by the secretaries at the beginning of the year.

  18. The committee is then in a position to settle its programme, which should be done as early in the year as possible, in order that owners may prepare their yachts' programmes for the season.

  19. Haddock, the Englishman who had the writing and drawing figure in his possession for some time, featured the fruitery on his programmes dated 1796.

  20. One of their joint programmes is also reproduced.

  21. These programmes are reproduced as the most convincing evidence against the claims of Robert-Houdin.

  22. According to programmes and newspaper clippings in my collection, Philip Breslaw was the first conjurer to feature second sight in his performance.

  23. I have been unable to obtain any of the early programmes used by Macallister, but I am reproducing the one he utilized during his engagement at the Bowery Theatre, New York City, in 1852.

  24. But Pinetti programmes show that he had a smaller figure known as the rope vaulter.

  25. I have gone to the very fountain head of information, records of contemporary literature, newspapers, programmes and advertisements of magicians who preceded Robert-Houdin, sometimes by a century.

  26. The dates of other programmes in my collection can be judged only from the style of printing which changed at different periods of the art's development.

  27. Even our colleges and universities, it must be confessed, do little in this respect, although there has been of late an effort to increase in the programmes the amount of time devoted to ethical study.

  28. Religious instruction has almost entirely ceased in the public schools, and it is rapidly disappearing from the programmes of colleges and preparatory schools, and few academies are now scenes of religious revival, as once was common.

  29. Later the programmes were modified a good deal, but they never fell off in interest.

  30. The programmes henceforth were far less elaborate, confined chiefly to some speaker of distinction, his theme being eulogistic of the man Vassar and what his gift had done for the education of women.

  31. It would make a history in itself--the work done in those days--the programmes undertaken and submitted, records of which are carefully preserved in the college archives.

  32. The programmes which I autographed during the afternoon are sold immediately and the audience wants more.

  33. During the afternoon there came 250 souvenir programmes to be autographed.

  34. That sort of thing is all right in places like Willesden, but we trust that our West End managers will continue to eliminate from their programmes anything likely to be provocative of similar behaviour.

  35. At charity matinees (and they, too, have been known to happen) she extracts vast sums of money from the audience for programmes and souvenirs.

  36. Programmes are a decided addition, and they should be made as interesting as possible without foreshadowing what is about to follow.

  37. It must have been these bridal musicale programmes that brought it up to me, for I haven't thought of it in years.

  38. Then the ends of the ribbons can trail down the sides of the programmes sort of fluttery and graceful.

  39. Ellestad said you were working at your programmes like a Trojan, and wouldn't stop long enough to draw a full breath.

  40. A row of finished programmes was already stretched out on the table before her.

  41. Not all the king's horses and all the king's men' could draw me away from these programmes till they are finished.

  42. The outdoors never did look so tempting, it seems to me, and those programmes are getting so monotonous I can hardly make myself go back to them.

  43. I'd like to see your programmes when they're finished,--before you send them away.

  44. Then the programmes have to be written on them after they get to Plainsville.

  45. The announced programmes of reforms, striking at many of the evils known to exist, are an augury of better things.

  46. It would clearly be unwise for us to attempt to adjust our programmes to a future world policy as yet undetermined.

  47. Throughout the revisionist literature in Germany there is a visible softening of the traits of the doctrine of the class struggle, and the like shows itself in the programmes of the party.

  48. Policies and programmes are as dust in the balance.

  49. We have left it all behind, with the ragged programmes in the seats.

  50. But he does not devote the same energy and consistency to the execution of his various programmes as he does to their formation.

  51. And the question of limiting naval armaments opens the wider and perhaps more difficult question of the limitation of armies and of all programmes of military preparation.

  52. Mr. Powell suggested that we should have the programmes for the concert typewritten, Rose.

  53. Yes, that will do very nicely," Miss Merivale said, after giving the typewritten programmes a cursory glance and pushing them from her.

  54. And she has given me some more programmes to do.

  55. Miss Merivale found herself unable to begin at once to make the inquiries she had come to make, and fell back on the programmes she wanted typewritten.

  56. As soon as she could she got away, after arranging that Rhoda should bring the programmes to Woodcote one day in the following week, so that she might talk over with her the details of some other work she wanted done.


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