Establishing

Examples

• Some weeks of spare time were at my disposal, before I entered on my functions by establishing myself in the suburbs of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• An Alexandrian astronomer (Sosigenes) assisted in establishing the new (Julian) calendar. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One was to erect a new order of jurisdiction, by establishing magistrates and a town-council in every considerable town of his demesnes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Peace being concluded, and the association business therefore at an end, I turned my thoughts again to the affair of establishing an academy. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We may apply the results of our discussion to a consideration of the criteria involved in a correct establishing of aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He was left in the air, incapable of conducting sieges or establishing conquests. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• True, at first, I hesitated about establishing a colony in the crater of an extinct volcano, for one would never know when it would break out again. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• My father set up for himself in business, establishing a tannery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All the time, there was something in her urging her to avoid the final establishing of a relationship with Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is a commonplace of educational theory that the establishing of character is a comprehensive aim of school instruction and discipline. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the United States an ordinance establishing a curfew, with the purpose of keeping young people off the streets, has existed in Salem, Mass. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The pope favoured the tyrant and the archbishop, and Gustavus Vasa found no difficulty in establishing the reformation in Sweden. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The point for establishing the siege battery was reached and the work performed without attracting the attention of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They care nothing for spectacular performances or establishing new records for their own glory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The company had been suspected of restraining the trade and of establishing some sort of improper monopoly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But even though we desired it there would be no way of establishing any clear-cut difference in politics between the angels and the imps. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• While he is thus employed, he says, after laughing at his establishing a surgery in the street, And so your husband is a brickmaker? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think I may venture to say that you would not be long in establishing your opinions on a firm and solid blue basis, sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Note has been made above of his invention of a stock ticker in Boston, and of his establishing a stock-quotation circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Taylor, however, had gone to, or towards Tampico, for the purpose of establishing a post there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Unless we succeed in establishing an alternative theory, this man is lost. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This way of establishing sequences is too common to be fairly regarded as a peculiar folly in Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I succeeded better the next year, 1744, in proposing and establishing a _Philosophical Society_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• For we are bent upon establishing more in this nation than a minimum of comfort. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Editor: Randolph