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Example sentences for "what ground"

  • He opposes my arguments, but on what ground?

  • The aforesaid Antony has given me to understand, through Matthew, that Sulzer has advised him to make his peace with me; but on what ground could I condescend to this reconciliation?

  • Unless this sure hope held us firm and steadfast, what ground of despair encompasses us round about!

  • On what ground, then, or by what authority, do we dare to deprive of their rights those children who will soon be men?

  • On what ground, then, do we pretend to take them from others?

  • On what ground of right, then, could the Parliament of 1688, or any other Parliament, bind all posterity for ever?

  • He would proceed to show on what ground he supported the opinion that the maintenance of a permanent naval establishment would prove ruinous to this country.

  • If the House were to act at all on this subject, it was not only respectful and just to the President, but extremely civil, to inquire of him on what ground he has acted.

  • Another thing that I infer from these words is this, What ground is here to Israel to hope in the Lord!

  • What ground, then, is here for confidence that Christ will make a good end with me, since I come unto God by him, and since he ever liveth to make intercession for me.

  • What ground can a man have to believe that Christ is his Saviour, if he do not believe that He suffered for sin in his nature?

  • If we agree that certain states of mind to-day have their origin in neural disorder, on what ground can we believe that similar mental states occurring a thousand or two thousand years ago were due to supernatural stimulation?

  • But this being granted, on what ground are we to be forbidden finding in these same organic processes the condition of the visions and ecstatic states with which The Varieties of Religious Experience is so largely concerned?

  • If the latter, what ground is there for placing the mystic in a category of his own?

  • On what ground do they pretend to deprive America of the service of any of her citizens without assigning a cause, or only the flimsy one of my being born in England?

  • On what ground can it be asserted that the Stoics believed in the actual existence of their God-like perfection in any individual?

  • On what ground of right could a magistrate inflict a penalty, whereby to compel a man to hear what he might believe dangerous to his soul, on which the right of burning the refractory individual might not be defended as well?

  • If this principle be denied or evaded, what ground have we left to reason on?

  • They paid their compliment to Washington solely: and on what ground?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    counted worthy; what avail; what belongs; what cases; what concerns; what condition; what doth; what followed; what had taken place; what has; what has been said; what king; what love; what matter; what may; what passes; what precedes; what relates; what seems; what shall; what woman; what wouldst; whatever rank; whatever they; whatso thou; whatsoever things