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Example sentences for "triennial"

Lexicographically close words:
tridents; tridge; tridges; trie; tried; triennium; trierarch; trierarchs; triers; tries
  1. The house was then represented at the triennial Conferences in Germany, and in the list of mother houses published at Kaiserswerth[60] the name still appears.

  2. The features of those that meet together in the triennial Conferences at Kaiserswerth are strikingly similar; the spirit of the original founder pervades them all.

  3. In 1848 the magazine Der Armen und Kranken Freund was sent forth as an organ for the deaconess cause, not only for Kaiserswerth, but for all the institutions that are represented at the triennial Conferences.

  4. It was delivered at the first Triennial Celebration of the Royal Agricultural Society, held at Oxford, on the 18th of July.

  5. When I found these names a few years ago (wrong side up, for the window had been reversed), I looked at once in the Triennial to find them, for the epithet showed that they were probably students.

  6. He peers among the asterisks of the triennial catalogue of the University for the names of graduates who have been seventy years out of college and remain still unstarred.

  7. Upon this triennial occurrence the interest was most highly increased, and the stately pomp and splendour of the pageant aided and augmented by the cheering presence of the sovereign.

  8. When the Estates went into the question of Limitations, Rothes introduced a measure for regulating the mode of appointing Privy Councillors and other officers of the Crown, and Belhaven introduced another for triennial Parliaments.

  9. It is illustrated inter alia by the wide adoption of English head gear on the Lop of the native costume, and the consequent importation of a million dollars worth of English hats and caps in the last triennial period.

  10. On the opposite side of the court is the Hall of the Triennial Examinations for the highest Literary Degree, the Chinese Doctor of Literature.

  11. Sidenote: 1716--The Triennial Bill] The Government made another change of a different kind, and for which there was better political justification.

  12. But no doubt the immediate object of repealing the Triennial Bill was to obtain a better chance for the new condition of things by giving it a certain time to work in security.

  13. Bribery and corruption were as rife and as extravagant under the triennial system as ever they had been before, or as they ever were since.

  14. Many who would not accept the Chartist idea of annual parliaments would still regard as one of the articles of the true creed of Liberalism the principle of the triennial parliament.

  15. Another, and a different kind of Triennial Parliament Bill, passed in 1694.

  16. Our triennial catalogue is hung thick with our trophies from many fields.

  17. Who prosperous and happy made The life of little Thumb?

  18. Very well,” said I; “all I ask of you is, that this arrangement shall not be mentioned.

  19. Such art is merchantable, and so with the whole range of amusements, from the highest to the lowest.

  20. The moment the Doctor was down behind the table, a wonderful change came over that smiling countenance.

  21. Nothing was more natural than that the voters should wish for a triennial recurrence of their bribes and their ale.

  22. His own Abbot shared with Trithemius the duty of making the triennial visitations of the Benedictine houses in that district; and Butzbach, as the Abbot's servant, often rode with them.

  23. It should mean occurring once in three weeks, as triennial means once in three years.

  24. Under the Triennial Bill in William's reign the duration of a Parliament was limited to three years.

  25. The Parliament however, whom the king had just conciliated by assenting at last to the Triennial Bill, went steadily with the Ministry; and its fidelity was rewarded by triumph abroad.

  26. A Triennial Bill which limited the duration of a Parliament to three was passed with little opposition, but fell before the dislike and veto of William.

  27. He was obliged to use his veto to defeat a Triennial Bill which, as he believed, would have destroyed what little stability of purpose there was in the present Parliament.

  28. The benefits that would accrue to the constitution from the establishment of triennial parliaments were very well understood, as these points had been frequently discussed in former reigns.

  29. The Bill for Triennial Parliaments receives the Royal Assent.

  30. An Account of the Place-bill, and that for triennial Parliaments.

  31. This was no other than a scheme to repeal the triennial act, and by a new law to extend the term of parliaments to seven years.

  32. A majority in both houses was already secured; and in all probability he bargained for their condescension by agreeing to the bill for triennial parliaments.

  33. On the twenty-second day of August an act for this purpose was approved; and next day an act for a triennial parliament, which the courtiers were enabled to defeat.

  34. Upon this prevalent disaffection, and the general dangers of the established government, was founded that measure so frequently arraigned in later times, the substitution of septennial for triennial parliaments.

  35. Many attempts have been made to obtain a return to triennial parliaments; the most considerable of which was in 1733, when the powerful talents of Walpole and his opponents were arrayed on this great question.

  36. The law for triennial parliaments was of little more than twenty years' continuance.

  37. Triennial sessions of the legislature, and other salutary reformations, were borrowed from their friends and coadjutors in England.

  38. By the triennial bill it was simply provided that every parliament should cease and determine within three years from its meeting.

  39. Under the Triennial Act it suffered a natural death three years after the day on which it was summoned.

  40. Before the Triennial Act Parliament could only be dissolved by the Crown.

  41. Participation of the stranger in the triennial tithe (Deut.

  42. In truth, triennial or annual parliaments could have done no good, unless the change had been accompanied by the more important process of amputating, as Chatham called it, the rotten boroughs.

  43. It may be true, as some allege, that a revision of the Prayer Book would shake the Church, but it is more likely that half a dozen patchings at triennial intervals would shatter it.

  44. Triennial changes in the letter of the Constitution (and these have often been made) involve no inconvenience to anybody, for the simple reason that that document must of necessity be reprinted with every fresh issue of the Journal.

  45. For The Blue Bird Maeterlinck was in 1912 awarded, for the third time in succession, the Belgian "Triennial prize for dramatic literature.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "triennial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amphibian; anniversary; annual; biennial; birthday; commemoration; cutting; daily; diurnal; evergreen; fortnightly; fungus; hourly; menstrual; momentary; monthly; perennial; plant; secular; seedling; semiannual; semimonthly; tercentenary; triennial; vegetable; weed; weekly; yearly