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Example sentences for "raise their"

  • Yet did not the Jews, under all this distress, permit the Romans to raise their banks in quiet, but they shrewdly and boldly exerted themselves, and repelled them both by night and by day.

  • Then did the legions come near the first court and began to raise their banks.

  • The white Brant ascocates in very large flocks, they do not appear to be mated or pared off as if they intended to raise their young in this quarter, I therefore doubt whether they reside here dureing the Summer for that purpose.

  • Columbia; these build in the ground where they form a nest like the hornet with an outer covering to the comb in which they deposit their eggs and raise their young.

  • Rocky mountains on the waters of the Columbia, those build in the ground where they form a nest like the hornet with an outer covering to the Comb in which they deposit their eggs and raise their young.

  • The white brant ascociate in very large flocks, they do not appear to be mated or pared off as if they intended to raise their young in this quarter, I therefore doubt whether they reside here during the summer for that purpose.

  • They seem to have been especially anxious to select for their place of retreat those secluded spots where the sights and sounds of nature might be most apt to raise their minds to God.

  • Yet did not the Jews, under all this distress, permit the Romans to raise their banks in quiet; but they shrewdly and boldly exerted themselves, and repelled them both by night and by day.

  • Then did the legions come near the first court, [12] and began to raise their banks.

  • Corporation laws enable the inhabitants of towns to raise their prices, without fearing to be undersold by the free competition of their own countrymen.

  • This may, no doubt, give encouragement to some particular class of workmen among ourselves, and, by excluding some of their rivals, may enable them to raise their price in the home market.

  • You now understand, I suppose, why the milk and chalk required a longer portion of time than the lead to raise their temperature to that of the oven?

  • But it will still, I suppose, be necessary in some degree to raise their temperature?

  • Resolved, That those who believe the laboring classes of women are oppressed, ought to do all in their power to raise their wages, beginning with their own household servants.

  • Those who represent such areas in every part of the country do their constituents ill service by blocking efforts to raise their incomes, their property values and, therefore, their whole scale of living.

  • The Catholic population, beginning once more to raise their heads, thought this a suitable occasion to present a humble and loyal address of congratulation to the Lords Justices, in the absence of the Viceroy.

  • The humblest of the community began to raise their heads, and to fix their eyes steadily on public affairs and public characters.

  • Animated by these successes, won in their midst, the clans of Leinster began in succession to raise their heads.

  • In our own days again, English workmen had a splendid opportunity to raise their standard of life.

  • On the other hand, the least enhancement of the price of the forces of production is immediately felt by the undertakers, and causes them to raise their prices.

  • As a rule, it requires a great and palpable enhancement of wages to make workmen, as a class, raise their standard of living.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bow and; but have everlasting life; cool water; miles northwest; never forgot; one end; our fellow; raise and support armies; raise armies; raise himself; raise money; raise prices; raise the; raise their; raise them; raised again; raised from; raised from the dead; raised himself; raised myself; raised thee; sounding brass; still possible; week ago; what reason; will attempt