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Example sentences for "taken over"

  • Many factories were actually abandoned by their owners and directors, and had to be taken over.

  • He demanded that the powers of government be taken over by the Soviets, which would, he said, convoke the Assembly on December 12th, the date assigned for it.

  • When private property in a particular thing is found injurious to public welfare, it will be taken over by the state for the purpose of being socialized, as will hereafter be explained.

  • Nevertheless, some parts of retail trade will be taken over absolutely, for example, milk, for hygienic reasons.

  • With the exception of these highest salaries, probably the wisest rule will be to maintain at first the proportion that exists at the time when the industry is taken over.

  • The hours of labor will not diminish in a great degree in the first year that an industry is taken over, for during the transition period, experience must be given time to demonstrate the extent to which hours of labor can be reduced.

  • And the debts of the extinct State must be taken over.

  • But the debts[114] of the extinct State must, on the other hand, also be taken over by the absorbing State.

  • The place of these two Brigades in rear of the line Brigade will be taken over by Canadian Divisions.

  • This was ultimately to be taken over by the Canadian Corps as a battle front, but that Corps still had two of its Divisions in the line in the neighbourhood of Arras.

  • Channel Ports must be adequately defended at all costs, and that if any sector of the line must be left weakly defended, that sector must be in the southern area, which the Fifth Army had now taken over.

  • The trenches now to be taken over by the 56th from the 1st Canadian Division lay south of the Arras-Cambrai Road just in front of the village of Tilloy, for as far as this had the German offensive bent our lines back.

  • That part of the Bill of Rights contained in amendments i, iv, vi, and xiv of the American constitution is taken over in effect, but with much enlargement of the rights of the individual.

  • This point of view is taken over by later Jewish authors and completely dominates them.

  • In so far as the gods are not eliminated they seem as a rule to be taken over quite naïvely from the source without further comment; but occasionally the poet expresses his view of their nature.

  • The paganism of the original is taken over naïvely, e.

  • The third time the government was taken over by a prelate was in 1759 on the death of Governor Arandia.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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