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Example sentences for "recommend"

Lexicographically close words:
recommence; recommenced; recommencement; recommences; recommencing; recommendable; recommendation; recommendations; recommendatory; recommended
  1. They have, before that, full time to acquire, or at least to fit themselves for afterwards acquiring, every accomplishment which can recommend them to the public esteem, or render them worthy of it.

  2. It was the system by which they could best recommend themselves to that order of people, to whom they first proposed their plan of reformation upon what had been before established.

  3. Two different causes contribute to recommend them.

  4. The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them.

  5. Under such a government, the clergy naturally endeavour to recommend themselves to the sovereign, to the court, and to the nobility and gentry of the country, by whose influence they chiefly expect to obtain preferment.

  6. But as there is no chance of safety for you against the king’s consent, I recommend you to look out for safety in the only quarter where it presents itself.

  7. He was so enamoured, not only with the theory, but with the practical effects, of republicanism, that he felt it a duty to recommend systems of government more consonant to the rights of mankind.

  8. It might occur to him that Mr. Crawford had been sitting by her long enough, or he might mean to recommend her as a wife by shewing her persuadableness.

  9. You will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a creature--to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to recommend them.

  10. Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together.

  11. I recommend the experiment to the partisans of spirit evocations.

  12. Taken just by itself alone, it constitutes a solid proof and I recommend a study of it to serious men.

  13. Meantime Colonel Byrd, who had been sent out to London as colonial agent, having rather failed in his efforts against Spotswood, begged the board of trade "to recommend forgiveness and moderation to both parties.

  14. At Paris, meeting with a Scottish gentleman, David Hume, he received from him an additional supply of money and letters, which might recommend him to the favor of James the Sixth of Scotland.

  15. We venture specially to recommend this weighty and beautiful passage to the reader's serious attention.

  16. Attalus used to recommend a hard couch in which the body could not sink; and, even in my old age, I use one of such a kind that it leaves no impress of the sleeper.

  17. Agrippina managed that his physician should recommend him the waters of Sinuessa in Campania by way of cure.

  18. We can recommend this book as a Christmas present, and one which has given us no small pleasure.

  19. I recommend him the artificial before the fat natural fly.

  20. As the inconvenience would arise from a government measure, government should introduce a remedy, and recommend it to both houses of parliament upon their own responsibility.

  21. Until that wound be healed, until the grievances be redressed, it is in vain to recommend union to parliament--in vain to promote concord among the people.

  22. Later in the session he intended to take the sugar duties into consideration; when he should recommend that England should admit, at a differential duty of ten shillings per cwt.

  23. The report itself, indeed, tended to recommend this measure to parliament.

  24. He would not recommend the adoption of the amendments by which town-clerks were made irremovable, and by which borough magistrates who were now justices by virtue of their offices, should continue to be so.

  25. And we recommend him to all as a faithful brother in good standing and full fellowship in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

  26. Many of the officers of the government are interested in speculations in lands and will vouch for persons when their recommend is interested.

  27. I presented my recommend to the quorum which now received me into their fellowship.

  28. This is common in the district of Mexico that I recommend for settling.

  29. I told him of the refusal to admit me into the quorum at Provo, saying that if I was considered worthy, I would like a recommend so as to have fellowship there.

  30. How is the country you recommend for timber?

  31. Now I am astonished to hear you recommend the raising of fine horses in Mexico.

  32. We gave them some more provisions, wrote their recommend and then started on, leaving the Indians cooking their breakfast and we saw no more of them.

  33. I recommend that provision be made for the organization of a simple form of town government in Alaska, with power to regulate such matters as are usually in the States under municipal control.

  34. In view of the statements made by the Secretary of State, I earnestly recommend that an appropriation of $5,000 be made in behalf of Mrs. Pauls.

  35. I recommend such legislation and appropriations as will encourage and develop this movement.

  36. No choice is left to me but to enforce with vigor all laws intended to secure to the citizen his constitutional rights and to recommend that the inadequacies of such laws be promptly remedied.

  37. I recommend that the necessary appropriation be made for a site and for construction.

  38. I recommend that provision be made by an international agreement for visibly marking the water boundary between the United States and Canada in the narrow channels that join the Great Lakes.

  39. I very urgently recommend that Congress at once provide a Territorial government for these people.

  40. I recommend such legislation as will remedy these defects in the law.

  41. I very earnestly recommend that adequate legislation may be provided to the end that the rapid and needless destruction of our great forest areas may be prevented.

  42. I recommend a revision of our tariff law both in its administrative features and in the schedules.

  43. I earnestly recommend that provision be made by law for locating these Indians upon lands in the Indian Territory.

  44. Suffer me to recommend to you one of the most useful lessons of life--the knowledge and study of yourself.

  45. Her medical skill is so well remembered, that the old nurses of New Jersey still recommend Elizabeth Estaugh's salve as the "sovereignest thing on earth.

  46. I can therefore recommend the machine with confidence, especially to those who have a large proportion of smooth ground in cultivation.

  47. I consider this machine invaluable to the grower of wheat, and would recommend every farmer who grows even fifty acres of wheat, to purchase one.

  48. I can, with great sincerity, recommend its general adoption.

  49. If any of the little flock feel desirous of spending an hour in looking into this subject, I would recommend them to send to the New York Sabbath Tract Society, and purchase Sabbath tract No.

  50. I am surprised, that you should recommend him so.

  51. Why do they deprecate so much firing, and recommend the use of the bayonet?

  52. If rapid firing is so desirable, why do the same critics who advocate it also recommend that troops shall hold their fire until they can pour in deadly volleys?

  53. My Lord of Sussex must have lost his own wits, I think, to recommend to us first a madman like Tressilian, and then a clownish fool like this other fellow.

  54. For the splendid manner in which he brought through the tribe of Dyaks he will deserve commendation at the hands of his seniors, but now he has added something more, and I shall strongly recommend him for reward.

  55. I recommend him, in the strongest manner, to the respect, esteem, and confidence of any community in which he may happen to live.

  56. A propos' of a minority; the King is to come to the House to-morrow, to recommend a bill to settle a Regency, in case of his demise while his successor is a minor.

  57. This did not occur to me before, and perhaps will not to the person who was to recommend you: I am sure I will not stir it; and I only mention it now, that you may be in all events prepared for the disappointment, if it should happen.

  58. Lord Shaftesbury recommends self-conversation to all authors; and I would recommend it to all men; they would be the better for it.

  59. I've heard him recommend a good many folks to go to him.

  60. A grown man that would shove that amount of money into his overcoat pocket and then go sasshayin' from Wapatomac to Orham ain't the kind I'd recommend to ship as cow steward on a cattle boat, to say nothin' of president of a bank.

  61. No distinction of persons or merits was observed: the peaceable and the mutinous, friends and foes, were alike involved, as if the rigor of the laws had a certain tendency to recommend the authority of the legislator.

  62. If the execution already ordered cannot be postponed, might I venture to recommend that it should extend to one only?

  63. Gentlemen who not long since thought with us, but who now recommend a Jacobin peace, were at that time sufficiently aware of the existence of a dangerous Jacobin faction within this kingdom.

  64. Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

  65. They recommend that the offenders for plunder ought to be punished, and the offenders from principle spared.

  66. These enemies of sovereigns, if at all acknowledged, must be acknowledged on account of that enmity alone: they have nothing else to recommend them.

  67. There is one thing in particular I wish to recommend to your Lordship's consideration: that is, the opening of the doors of the House of Commons.

  68. The well-wishers of the liberty and union of this empire salute you, and recommend you most heartily to the Divine protection.

  69. The general drift was strongly to recommend the whole, and principally to obviate the objections to the part that related to the Dissenters, with regard both to the general propriety and to the temporary policy at this juncture.

  70. All inquiry was in vain, and he was now convinced how much reason Mr. Siebert had to recommend particular attention to their property.

  71. I also recommend Herbert Spencer's Principles of Sociology and Lecky's History of European Morals.

  72. And I take the opportunity to here recommend very strongly Shall We Understand the Bible?

  73. I can warmly recommend The Miracles of Christian Belief and The Claims of Christianity, by Charles Watts, and Christianity and Progress, a penny pamphlet, by G.


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    Other words:
    acclaim; accredit; advance; advise; advocacy; advocate; applaud; approve; back; boost; brief; broach; cajole; character; coach; coax; commend; compliment; confer; counsel; credential; direct; endorse; exhort; favor; feint; guide; hail; importune; indicate; insist; instruct; introduce; launch; lobby; meddle; moot; move; nag; nominate; patronage; plead; plug; pose; postulate; praise; prefer; prescribe; press; pressure; promote; propose; proposition; propound; puff; push; recommend; reference; speak; start; submit; suggest; support; testimonial; tout; urge; voucher; wheedle