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Example sentences for "striking illustration"

  • John Foster has cited a striking illustration of what this kind of determination will do in money-making.

  • The career of John Howard was throughout a striking illustration of the same power of patient purpose.

  • Their example was followed by few officials from the states that seceded, but the steadfastness of their faith was a striking illustration of the difference between the South of Jefferson and Jackson and the South of Calhoun and Davis.

  • The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.

  • A striking illustration of a strong mental influence helping out a slight amount of therapeutic efficiency is found in the use of the actual cautery for medical affections.

  • The story of sarsaparilla is a striking illustration.

  • A striking illustration of the impolicy of sacrificing right to any considerations of expediency!

  • This is surely a striking illustration of what can be done by colored officers.

  • The important feature of the series is that it affords another and perhaps the most striking illustration of that phase of the omen literature which concerns the individual directly, and, it seems safe to add, exclusively.

  • The association of ideas involved in the combination furnishes another and rather striking illustration of the close contact between science and religion in the remarkable culture of the Euphrates Valley.

  • The limitations of the cosmological speculations of the Babylonians find a striking illustration in the manner in which the beginnings of human culture are placed on a level with the beginnings of heavenly and terrestrial phenomena.

  • In the light of the Babylonian story of Eabani living with animals, Stade's suggestion receives a striking illustration.

  • We have a striking illustration of this truth in the frequent cases of "bewitched kine.

  • He gives a striking illustration of how easily an observer may be led into error by relying on negative evidence.

  • The present state of the Flora of New Zealand affords a striking illustration of the correctness of this view.

  • A striking illustration of Rome’s policy toward those who disagree with her was given in the long and bloody persecution of the Waldenses, some of whom were observers of the Sabbath.

  • A striking illustration of the tyrannical character of this advocate of infallibility was given in his treatment of the German emperor, Henry IV.

  • A striking illustration of this truth is presented in the history of the Jewish people in the time of Christ.

  • The history of ancient Israel is a striking illustration of the past experience of the Adventist body.

  • It is a striking illustration of the superiority of man to money, and in the mad struggle for a mere material advantage, this devotion to pure art, condemning the expense, is a noble tribute to the unselfishness of human nature.

  • The work of the Employment Service in the Department of Labor during the recent war affords a striking illustration of cooperation secured through an agency of government.

  • A striking illustration of this is in the development of a great fleet of merchant ships at a rate that would have been impossible before the war.

  • This case affords a striking illustration of the dangers that often surround innocent men in the artificially superheated atmosphere of a court room created by an excited and credulous public opinion eager for a victim.

  • Of this I once witnessed a striking illustration.

  • We are indebted to the fine candour of the late Mr. Darwin for a striking illustration of this.

  • The selection of the word is a striking illustration of our Lord's carefulness of the claims of sincerity and truth, while He is anxious if possible to use a word that will touch the traitor's heart.

  • What a striking illustration of these suggestive words of warning has been the history of doctrine and of form in those churches which cling to the worn-out ritualism of the Old Testament!

  • We had a striking illustration of this at Benares.

  • Before the close of my first year I had a striking illustration of the vicissitudes of Indian life, and of consequent difficulty in prosecuting the missionary enterprise.

  • We have a striking illustration of this fact in the part of India in which we have lived.

  • What a striking illustration have we here of the necessity of diffusing correct physiological information more widely among the masses than has yet been done even in enlightened Massachusetts!

  • The following is a striking illustration.

  • We have a striking illustration of the exercise of the latter function in the vaccination of children and others, to protect them from small-pox.


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