Readjustment

Examples

• Their development demands continuous alternation and readjustment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are looking for a readjustment of their relations to the home, to work, to children, to men, to the interests of civilized life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Archer winced at the joining of the names, and then, with a quick readjustment, understood, sympathised and pitied. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These arise when the discrepant claims of different ideals of conduct affect the community as a whole, and the need for readjustment is general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is true that we do not see things upside down, but this is because of mental readjustment during the passage of the impressions from the eye to the brain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Fighting viciously every readjustment which a nation demands, they make their own overthrow inevitable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The problem of social readjustment is openly industrial, having to do with the relations of capital and labor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Clearly it demands great readjustments of our social, economical, and political methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He cannot make needed readjustments readily. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A very interesting Pan-Slavic conference held at Prague foreshadowed many of the territorial readjustments of 1919. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Editor: Madge