Facilitate

Examples

• This process is repeated several times, the object of it being not so much to give relief to the lines, as to roughen the surface of the stone, and thus facilitate its absorption of water. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• And this suggests that the aim of education is to facilitate such short-circuited growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The object of the public works and institutions above mentioned, is to facilitate commerce in general. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You promised to facilitate my visit to Adrian; I conjure you to perform your promise. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Lists of all purchases had to be made out, and values attached, to facilitate matters at the custom-house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This perfection in insulation has greatly facilitated the establishment of telegraphic communication between England and the Continent. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They had with them a gold tablet and other indications from the Great Khan that must have greatly facilitated their journey. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thirdly, and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labour is facilitated and abridged by the application of proper machinery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This is commonly done by passing it through water and lime; the combination of the carbonic acid with the lime being facilitated by agitation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• His plans were greatly facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It is a human work which may be facilitated by good tools. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Transportation by bicycles and automobiles has been greatly facilitated by the use of air tires. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Of the public Works and Institution which are necessary for facilitating particular Branches of Commerce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And, first, of those which are necessary for facilitating Commerce in general. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Both are employed in facilitating exchanges, the one between different individuals of the same, the other between those of different nations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Railway tracks run the full length of both crane-ways, facilitating the unloading and loading of supplies and parts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Have you not risked all in facilitating my flight? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A bottling apparatus has been invented for facilitating the process; but a man accustomed to bottle by hand can do it more quickly, and with as little waste of gas and water as with a machine. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Custom also, or acquaintance facilitates the entrance, and strengthens the conception of any object. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Any device like proportional representation and preferential voting which facilitates the political expression of group interests is worth having. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It facilitates an economical selection and arrangement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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