How To Use Apprehend In A Sentence

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His Honour did not misapprehend the facts, he did not misapply legal principle, he did not miscalculate the damages, nor did he err in the exercise of his discretion.
On appeal to the CAFC, the court stated that the applicants "misapprehended" the BPAI's decision, noting that none of the rejected claims contained the limitations which prompted the reversal. Archive 2008-04-01
The number of individuals is infinite; the generic or specific nature of all being is a unit, or to be apprehended as one only thing; from this one conception we give the genuine measures of all existence, and therefore we affirm that a certain class of beings are rational and discoursive. Essays and Miscellanies
Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.

` ` The shirra sent for his clerk, and as the lad is rather light o the tongue, I fand it was for drawing a warrant to apprehend you --- I thought it had been on a fugie warrant for debt; for a 'body kens the laird likes naebody to pit his hand in his pouch --- But now I may haud my tongue, for I see the M ` Intyre lad and Mr. Lesley coming up, and I guess that The Antiquary
The last two recessions were grossly misapprehended while they were in progress. Stromata Blog:
The appellant thus argued that the trial judge misapprehended the facts and/or misapplied the appropriate standard of care to the facts.
He admitted that some people had left the city some time back apprehending communal violence, but there is no such fear now.
From the moment of Germany's defeat, the United States was active in apprehending war criminals, denazifying German society, and collecting and protecting archives of the Nazi regime, all of which have by now been declassified.
We assume that actions provide the particular moments for apprehending and hence for experientially cognizing the person.
But at the moment when no precaution should have been relaxed, a despatch from the West India directors, who appear to have been misled by advices from London, announced that no danger need be apprehended from the English expedition, as it was sent out by the King only to settle the affairs of his colonies and establish episcopacy, which would rather benefit the company's interests in New Netherlands. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
Most murderers are easily apprehended and readily confess.
At last I apprehend ed his meaning.
(And let it not be objected that the whole may be apprehended through some of the parts only), for manyness which abides in all its substrates together (i.e. in all the many things), is not apprehended so long as only some of those substrates are apprehended. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights.
'Ah, Sir!' cried he, 'if you knew how little is to be apprehended from the world, where the whole heart is already absorbed in attachment, contracted in the early dawn of life, and interwoven with the very existence, you would not feel these fears, nor wound me with these doubts.' The Old Manor House
But it never seems to have occurred to the court of committees that there was any danger to be apprehended from the Dutch, so that they were all the more astonished and chagrined at the failure to establish trade with the Moluccas, where the natives were so friendly to the The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
Therewithal she rightly apprehends the danger Bertram is in from the wordy, cozening squirt, the bedizened, scoundrelly dandiprat, who has so beguiled his youth and ignorance. Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
The mother must ultimately establish before the appellate tribunal that the motions judge erred in principle or materially misapprehended the evidence.
John T. Kennedy seems to misapprehend "consequentialist libertarian" -- at least as I use it and see it used. Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Information gathered by them revealed that he was persuaded to cancel his visit today by the state government as it apprehended major controversy.
Thankfully this man was apprehended safely and all the officers were able to walk away without a scratch.
Having fully apprehended the dangers inherent in prevailing models of privacy, one may then begin to articulate an alternative vision of privacy. 'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Grace, and give him the soume of 3400 merks for his loss and damages sustained by him, both at Craigrostown and at his house, Rob Roy
Only Lonnrot apprehends that the design of the plot is actually a rhomb.
Andrew J. Bacevich on The Dark Side by Jane Mayer: With the appearance of this very fine book, Hillary Clinton can claim a belated vindication of sorts: A right-wing conspiracy does indeed exist, although she misapprehended its scope and nature. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
I was apprehended, the root confiscated, and I was better beaten and longer planked than ordinarily. Chapter 15
‘We are not unmindful of the dangers to human health and to life itself, and we will bring the full rigours of the law against anyone who is apprehended,’ the spokesman added.
Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the aethereal particles so deeply immersed in it. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
He was promptly apprehended by the local constabulary and put in a police cell until bailed by his tutor. Times, Sunday Times
I think HGilbert arrived with Anne at the important turns in the government's pursuit in the 4th court of an alient "student"; as the Rasul Scotus certification addresses and somewhat supersedes Eisentrager with respect to where the detainee is apprehended. Balkinization
The police have finally apprehended the killer.
In Buddhist terms this necessity of alternation is called the defilement of apprehending the two truths as if they were different entities. Becoming Enlightened
Mind is the monad, science or knowledge the dyad (because it goes undeviatingly from one point to another), opinion the number of the plane, sensation the number of the solid; the numbers are by him expressly identified with the Forms themselves or principles, and are formed out of the elements; now things are apprehended either by mind or science or opinion or sensation, and these same numbers are the Forms of things. On the Soul
Besides, what measures has China adopted to apprehend the heads of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement?
It is perhaps not too much to say that any calamity the moment it is apprehended by the reason alone loses nearly all its power to disturb and unfix us.
One is the former one of an application for extension of time for service of the summons - I do not apprehend it will be opposed.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Nine foreign fishing vessels, all Indonesian flagged, were apprehended and escorted to Gove by Customs and the Navy, the Senators said.
My spirit apprehends instinctively the right and the true; and through life I have relied on intuitions; which some have called a rashness, recommending colder cautions; but these latter have seldom paid their way. My Life as an Author
If a streaker is flicked on to the green baize pitch, play must cease until the opposing player has ‘apprehended’ him or her, by flicking their policeman into position to make an ‘arrest’.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
But if the Wright controversy comes to define his candidacy, if voters split along racial lines, if the media proves unable to cover the speech with as much sophistication and depth as Obama displayed in delivering it – then it will be the senator from Illinois who has misapprehended the possible. Obama's Speech Also An Indictment Of Our Political Discourse
WHILE we were constantly delighting ourselves with the reading of books, which it was our custom to read or have read to us every day, we noticed plainly how much the defective knowledge even of a single word hinders the understanding, as the meaning of no sentence can be apprehended, if any part of it be not understood. The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
On my reading, Cosgrove, at worst, misapprehended the evidence and came to the wrong conclusions. April Fool’s, Justice Cosgrove! Clean Out Your Desk. : Law is Cool
I hope, at least, that by the light of this spark he may apprehend the emphaticalness of all the expressions used in this place to be pointed towards the particular case under consideration, and not in the least to be expressive of the possibility he contends for. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Of routine, it helps that you apprehend me pathetic my boobs and fingering my pussy while we switch begrime words, but you take in the idea. The Title is :naturalbornparents.com
Tragic sense of death is one of the entrance to apprehend Eugene O'neill's dramas and to acknowledge his tragic aesthetics.
Police apprehended and arrested an individual suspected of stealing students' backpacks from the cubbies on the lower level of the Campus Center on Nov. 15.
Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight.
And with this developing in ignominious as well as PageRank you can save in perspective to apprehend your background in culminate unambiguous exhilarated in those Search Locomotive Results. Your Right Hand Thief
Granting _alleyn_ to be rightly put for alone, no ancient writer, I apprehend, ever used such a phrase as this; any more than we should now say -- _my son alone_ for _my only son_. The Rowley Poems
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Officers at Fort Duquesne heard a “blast of great guns & musquetry” that made them “apprehend our detachment had joined in with the English army nearer than they imagined, & that they were ingaged.” George Washington’s First War
A principal role of military police has been to apprehend deserters and to prevent soldiers straggling or running from the battlefield; troops deployed in the latter role are often termed ‘battle police’.
The act of cognition is the concept, or verbum mentale, by which is apprehended the universal nature or essence of the object prescinded from its individualizing conditions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Around the pinnacles, lionfish and coral groupers lay ready to apprehend stragglers from the shoals of sweepers, while yellow-mouthed moray eels poked their heads from gaps in the coral as I passed.
It was once proposed to discriminate the slaves by a peculiar habit; but it was justly apprehended that there might be some danger in acquainting them with their own numbers. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
I was amazed one day when a footman, who had committed some _bevue_ or blunder, or apprehended something, actually turned pale and stammered with terror when Lord Memoirs
Status offense charges served not only as a legal justification to apprehend runaways and to discipline boys who refused to go to school, but also to give the police a means to impose an informal curfew.
He was eventually apprehended by British police who had rushed 12 miles up the service tunnel to cut him off.
_punish_ sin while at the same time He _pardons_ it, -- can punish it in the Substitute while He pardons it in the sinner, -- it is not until he is enabled to apprehend the doctrine of _vicarious_ atonement, that his doubts and fears respecting the possibility and reality of the Divine mercy are removed. Sermons to the Natural Man
Every herdsman and shepherd knows the danger to be apprehended from the inclination of some of either kind to "sidle" off from the plain and beaten track and pluck the green leaves of the laurel to their own destruction. Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
His words may be apprehended as if they disallowed only divorce for 'common discontents in unstaid minds,' having no cause but a 'desire for change;' and then we agree. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
It is exceedingly difficult to misapprehend discovering my wife in a dockside tavern. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Usually applied to visual perception, gestalt psychology studies how we perceive a given scene and apprehend a whole that is always greater than the parts.
Gallic chiefs, Dagalaiphus and Nevitta; and the most fatal consequences might be apprehended from the discord of two factions, so opposite in their character and interest, in their maxims of government, and perhaps in their religious principles. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It was a lesson I had misapprehended as a small child, when I went to synagogue with my father.
The police apprehended an armed suspect near the scene of the crime.
Now it belongs not only to man but also to other animals to apprehend a thing absolutely; wherefore the right which we call natural is common to us and other animals according to the first kind of commensuration. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
The escape plan was amateur hour: Nosair's buddy Abouhalima was supposed to drive the getaway car, a taxicab, but the overexcited Nosair jumped in the wrong cab and was apprehended. The Road To September 11
This is precisely the scenario for which no-knock entry is warranted -- to apprehend suspected dangerous people who may present an immediate threat to police and the public. Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid
CARLSBAD- A Carlsbad woman faces charges of evading and obstructing an officer after being apprehended for dragging another woman into a residence against her will and threatening the victim's family members with a bat. Carlsbad Current-Argus Most Viewed
Thus, a vast concern is expressed for the liberty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence of its licentiousness: but then, by the licentiousness of the press is meant every disclosure by which any abuse is brought to light and exposed to shameby the liberty of the press is meant only publications from which no such inconvenience is to be apprehended; and the fallacy consists in employing the sham approbation of liberty as a mask for the real opposition to all free discussion. Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
He'll apprehend them; poind their gear: [seize, property] Robert Burns How To Know Him
these apprehended truths
An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him. The Canadian Commonwealth
The offender was chased and apprehended by a member of the public who witnessed the attack.
Country-man or friend for his companion doth much increase his danger, as well for the confession of his companion, if they chance to be apprehended, as for other accidents, since he shall be accomptable and drawne into danger, as well as by his companion's words or deeds, as by his owne. English Travellers of the Renaissance
prophesyings," or the assemblies of the zealots in private houses, which, she apprehended, had become so many academies of fanaticism; and for this offence she had, by an order of the star chamber, sequestered him from his archiepiscopal function, and confined him to his own house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
These were the officers of justice, with a warrant of justiciary to search for and apprehend Euphemia, or Effie Deans, accused of the crime of child-murder. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Never divining Joan's fluttering wildness, her blind hatred of restraint and compulsion, her abhorrence of mastery by another, and mistaking the warmth and enthusiasm in her eyes (aroused by his latest tale) for something tender and acquiescent, he drew her to him, laid a forcible detaining arm about her waist, and misapprehended her frantic revolt for an exhibition of maidenly reluctance. Chapter 26
He denied that these instructions were meant to be permanent, but only to be put in force when an emeute was apprehended. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise [I. 99] of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
While we were constantly delighting ourselves with the reading of books, which it was our custom to read or have read to us every day, we noticed plainly how much the defective knowledge even of a single word hinders the understanding, as the meaning of no sentence can be apprehended, if any part of it be not understood. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
The applicant also complains that the Minister has, in effect, misapprehended his family circumstances and the hardships that will be caused to his wife and his 14-month-old child if his application fails.
The police have finally apprehended the killer.
Then he filed a lawsuit against Stores Protective Association and Robinsons-May, where the shoplifter was apprehended by security guards.
When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant or cold, until better apprehended. No and Yes
He could often solve murders before they occurred: it then became merely a matter of stationing an officer where he could observe the foul deed and apprehend the evildoer.
I might instead attempt to diagram its structure, insofar as I am able to apprehend it.
North Yorkshire Police said he was apprehended in the city on that date.
The gun misfires twice and the man is apprehended.
This matter has been highlighted on a number of occasions but no one has been apprehended to date.
Arguments for belief in science are arguments for technocracies where almost everyone is several steps removed from directly apprehending the things that they are supposed to believe in. The Guardian World News
There would be no time to turn away, no time to act, yet there would be time to perceive and apprehend.
When Mary said to him she would miss her pupil, he smiled in a sort of abstracted way, as if not quite apprehending what she said, which seemed to Mary a little odd, his manners in essentials being those of a gentleman, as judged by one a little more than a lady; for there is an unnamed degree higher than the ordinary _lady_. Mary Marston
And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Let's remember that we were never apprehended, arrested, charged or deported.
Every one sees the body of the sun, but no one sees his soul, nor the soul of any other body living or dead; and yet there is great reason to believe that this nature, unperceived by any of our senses, is circumfused around them all, but is perceived by mind; and therefore by mind and reflection only let us apprehend the following point. Laws
An affirmation phenomenon (sgrub-pa, affirmingly known phenomenon) is a validly knowable phenomenon that is apprehended in a manner in which an object to be negated (dgag-bya) is not explicitly precluded, cut off, dismissed, or rejected by the sounds that express the phenomenon. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? �� Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena
I think most people would consider him an unscrupulous thug who should be apprehended and punished.
When she was apprehended at the store, these drugs were in her pocketbook, all right?
Confide mater, leonibus ipsis familiaris jam factus sum, et saepe conscendi eorum terga et apprehendi jubas; equorum more insidens eos agito, et illi mihi caudis adblandiuntur. Anatomy of Melancholy
Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Rob Roy — Complete
The writer apprehends that the abstract right of insurrection on the one hand, and of self-conservation on the other, quite overbears, in so vast and momentous a debate, the narrow, technical, legal question: that which it does not overbear is the rightness or wrongness of the immediate motive, conduct, and aim of any particular insurrection and repression, considered individually. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
Fail to visit the sick, and you fail to apprehend your own journey from birth to death.
But everyone presently apprehends that this expression is figurative, the abstract being put for the concrete by a metalepsis, and charity is said to do that which a man endued with that grace will do. Pneumatologia
His subjects were impatient of the long continuance of his life and reign: yet all who were capable of reflection apprehended the moment of his death, which might involve the capital in tumult, and the empire in civil war. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The apprehended man came off rather worse. The Sun
For the eare is properly but an instrument of conueyance for the minde, to apprehend the sence by the sound. The Arte of English Poesie
Even today, you stand a chance of being apprehended for "dressing improperly" - which can mean anything from letting your beer belly hang out, to exposing mottled thighs or pasty midriffs.
A poor African, behind the pulpit, who perhaps had seen pictures of the devil with a long tail and hoofs, misapprehended the meaning of the word curtail, and responded, "Amen! may it be cut right, smack, smooth, short off. Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc. with an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery
But the changes are so subtle that they are difficult to apprehend and you cannot be certain that this is the case.
Often, empiricism is contrasted with rationalism, a theory which holds that the mind may apprehend some truths directly, without requiring the medium of the senses.
We are also certain that the police will apprehend the criminal who carried out this cowardly deed.
Walker was at liberty for many years before the police apprehended him.
Then he filed a lawsuit against Stores Protective Association and Robinsons-May, where the shoplifter was apprehended by security guards.
Such obedience requires knowledge of the rule and acceptance of it _as the rule_ of the agent's own actions, but not necessarily knowledge of its ground or of its systematic connexion with other similarly known and similarly accepted rules (It may be remarked that the Greek word usually translated "reason," means in almost all cases in the _Ethics_ such a rule, and not the faculty which apprehends, formulates, considers them). Ethics
The itsy-bitsy spider, on the other hand, correctly apprehends the situation: the sun comes out, dries up that which washed him down, making another assault on the spout feasible.
Historians, in other words, need to apprehend and to understand the rough as well as the respectable manhood of American workers.
He was instrumental in a number of arrests; apprehending foreign tourists involved in sexual exploits with minors, counterfeit money scams and local hotel robberies.
His Honour did not misapprehend the facts, he did not misapply legal principle, he did not miscalculate the damages, nor did he err in the exercise of his discretion.
In all likelihood, most of those apprehended had no idea they were breaking the law.
But, in the case of apprehended celebrities, the numbered mugshot has another significance.
Rolly single-handedly attempted to apprehend the youths, put out the fire and administer first aid to barman Wheeler.
Two local youths are understood to have been apprehended by police. Times, Sunday Times
He tries to tell Rose that he's been exonerated because the real robber has been apprehended.
When we conceive of a situation involving this sort of relation, he says, we conceive of it as if it involved two things (“a relation requires two relata” and hence “reason apprehends the one thing twice”), and also as if the two things were ordered to each other by a pair of properties (or “[relative] dispositions”). Medieval Theories of Relations
I fand it was for drawing a warrant to apprehend you -- I thought it had been on a _fugie_ warrant for debt; for a 'body kens the laird likes naebody to pit his hand in his pouch -- But now I may haud my tongue, for I see the M'Intyre lad and Mr. Lesley coming up, and I guess that The Antiquary — Volume 01
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
He gazed at the foto, utterly entranced by what he was struggling to apprehend. THE BROKEN GOD
Palestinian moderates fear that the statehood move, if mishandled or misapprehended, could set into motion a chain of violent events ultimately spelling the demise of the Palestinian Authority, and dealing a telling blow to any timetable for an independent Palestine. Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN
The police apprehended an armed suspect near the scene of the crime.
We were placed between the two extremes of heat and cold, and there was as much danger to be apprehended from the one as the other. Roughing It in the Bush
A bike thief was prevented from taking a Barnes resident for a ride last month when he was apprehended by two Police Officers who had raced to the scene on their bicycles.
Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time.
Consider for a moment how few sports allow us to apprehend the world outside our doors.
With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
The apprehended man came off rather worse. The Sun
Knowing, by contrast, refers to mental states' faculty to perceive or apprehend what appears.
When the dinner was over, De Segur took me to a window, expressing his uneasiness at what he called the imprudence of Jacquemont, who, he apprehended, from Joseph's silence and manner, would not escape punishment for having indirectly blamed both the restorer of religion and his plenipotentiary. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public – house by such inexplicable items as ‘quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)’ David Copperfield
Research has shown that a policeman plodding the streets is likely to apprehend someone committing a crime only once every 8 years.
During World War 2, a team of would-be German saboteurs landed in Montauk, and were detected but not apprehended by a coast guard sentry, only to fail in their missions, absorbed into society at large. Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight
The Canada goose was spotted on CCTV cameras and four security officers, used to collaring shoplifters, were sent to apprehend it.
When it is known as immeasurably greater than we, and as having claims and making demands upon us, the more vaguely these are apprehended, the more room is there for anxiety; and when the conscience is not clear, this anxiety may well mount to terror. Unspoken Sermons Second Series
Similarly, many of us work to reposition our analyses, no matter what their regional focus, both to reduce the United States and to enlarge it, always with the goal of accurately apprehending gender, culture, history and power.
Husserl wished to render philosophy into a rigorous science, and therefore labored to develop a systematic method for observing the world (the perceived noema) purely and without the presuppositions that can sediment themselves into our personal experiential histories and cause us to mistakenly assume what we do not apprehend, but found that this endeavor required an underpinning understanding of both the nature of the observer and the nature of observation itself (the subject and the noesis of perception). The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
He had a necessity incumbent on him of declaring the great labour he had undergone, and the pains he had taken in "preaching of the gospel;" but yet immediately, lest anyone should apprehend that he ascribed any thing to himself, any gracious, holy actings in those labours, he adds his usual epanorthosis, "Not I;" -- "Let me not be mistaken; it was not I, by any power of mine, by any thing in me, but it was all wrought in me by the free grace of the Spirit of God. Pneumatologia
There is no salvation to those that believe not in Christ; that is, say some, since his nativity, and, as divinity affirmeth, before also; which makes me much apprehend the end of those honest worthies and philosophers which died before his incarnation. Religio Medici
It is exceedingly difficult to misapprehend discovering my wife in a dockside tavern. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The minute offenders are apprehended, they are ushered to a quiet spot behind the bushes and will be on the receiving end of such a hiding that they are not likely to re-offend.
There has been another murder committed within a few miles of this place, which has given us something to gossip about, for the committee of vigilance had the good nature, purely for our amusement I conclude, to apprehend a lucky individual (I call him _lucky_ advisedly, for he had all his expenses paid at the Humboldt, was remunerated for his lost time, enjoyed a holiday from hard work, had a sort of guard of honor composed of the most respectable men on the river, and was of more consequence for four days than ever he had been in the whole of his insignificant little life before) whom somebody fancied bore a faint resemblance to the description of the murderer. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
As an incoherent assemblage of biological and cultural energies, each open to indefinite mutual recombinations or failed combinations that can register at various points on the scale from general experience to complete idiosyncrasy, the "subject" can never be apprehended, however often it is interpellated and in whatever terms (language, desire, class, gender and so on). Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History
Kurtzman's style only looks crude, much like I'd once dismissed Jack Kirby's work on the same basis, but I'd misapprehended strength for crudeness. What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
These pleasures may help us to apprehend and understand such horrors, but they can only do so if they are entertaining.
Antonio de Almaraz bedel puso en la posesion del dicho salario al dicho padre mº. fray Luis de Leon en la catedra questá en el general mayor de theologia de escuelas mayores, el qual la tomó é apprehendió sin contradicion ninguna, y _en lugar de posesion leyó un poco_. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
However, he was apprehended and arraigned and pleaded guilty.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
The students were apprehended by police on Tuesday evening in London Road, where one of them was found to be brandishing a toy gun.
Still, he was about to apprehend a fugitive who'd eluded the police for eleven years.
Where are the images showing the location of the sailors and marines when apprehended? The Sun
She apprehended the complicated law very quickly.
It said two persons were apprehended while attempting to take fish illegally at the fish pass in November.
And so much the more, a little while after, there comes one and tells them by word of mouth, that there were several Schollars, which were playing some antick tricks in the night; and amongst some others both their Son and their Cousin were apprehended, and at this very present sad accusations were brought in against them. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
Antonio de Almaraz bedel puso en la posesion del dicho salario al dicho padre mº. fray Luis de Leon en la catedra questá en el general mayor de theologia de escuelas mayores, el qual la tomó é apprehendió sin contradicion ninguna, y _en lugar de posesion leyó un poco_. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
Uninitiated minds are unable to apprehend the Existent by itself; they only perceive it through its actions.
(Probability of unity, subject to assumptions: first, that topologic social space is continuous and is included in the physical space of the Western Federation and, second, that at least one concatenative path exists between apprehended subjects and star group. The Past Through Tomorrow
If we don't "aestheticize" art -- that is, apprehend it on its own terms as art -- we've failed to recognize it at all. Saying Something
To make such an arrangement with a servant who knew not her connection with his young master, was extremely repugnant to her; but the exigence was too urgent for scruples, and there was nothing to which she would not have consented, to prevent the fatal catastrophe she apprehended. Cecilia
The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality. Canada.com Top Stories
But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
China's industrial competitors, including the U.S., often misapprehend the source of China's productive strength.
When we pass through the inexorable gates of the future; when we pass through that vestibule where death stands opening his everlasting gates as widely to the pauper as to the king; when we pass out here into the _dim mysteries of the future_, to confront, it may be, the interrogations of the Eternal, -- I apprehend _every man's responsibility will go with him_, and no second-hand opinions will answer for us. "[ Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
This energy is beyond being contained by any religion or tradition, although humans turn to the philosophical systems known to them in apprehending it.
He was apprehended when armed police swooped on his car on the outskirts of Sheffield.
Because she didn't seem to be armed, police cars did not apprehend her as she alternated between stops and starts and conversations with curious bystanders.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Which , ipso facto, is apprehended by its performer as that pattern.
Such extraterritorial application of organic law would have been so significant an innovation in the practice of governments that, if intended or apprehended, it could scarcely have failed to excite contemporary comment.
This necessity of alternation is called the defilement of apprehending the two truths as if they were different entities. Becoming Enlightened
In most cases, a censor and a chiliarch or centurion from the Imperial Guard were ordered to jointly oversee campaigns to apprehend brigands.
Police quickly apprehended the suspected attacker. Times, Sunday Times
President Truman ordered Clark to take every action to apprehend and convict the murderers.
I can: the word conceive, therefore, is here used to express the recognition of a matter of fact — the perception of truth or falsehood; which I apprehend to be exactly the meaning of an act of belief, as distinguished from simple conception. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
misremember," jumble, and confuse the whole allegory, but he so misapprehended its meaning in many points, that the lessons taught and the morals drawn were very wide of the mark indeed. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
The apprehended man came off rather worse. The Sun
They become visible people, rather than unapprehended criminals.
Though we need not see as she does to appreciate her stories, understanding the vision that informs them is essential to apprehending their deeper meanings.
That sublimity, which is one manifestation of beauty, is of the spirit, and by the spirit it must be apprehended. The Enjoyment of Art
According to reports, an off-duty police officer tried to intervene and was struck by the robber before he was apprehended and arrested.
Upon hearing the shots, the man said he ran from his rondavel and managed to apprehend one of the fleeing suspects, whom he recognised as a relative of Mama who had recently been fired.
Add the complexities and foibles that come between ambition and despair and stir into the apprehended but uncomprehended All Thing known as god (or the gods) and untangling what is from what seems to be had to wait until someone came along crazy or brave enough to say "You know, this looks suspiciously like a made up explanation based on our own Self. A Dark And Hidden God
In the space that opens between these two poles we might apprehend, for a moment, the possibility of standing outside the gaze of a history which names us.
The right-angled arms of this ancient sun-sign denote the indirect way that Divinity is apprehended: by intuition and not by intellect.
In apprehending and responding to contemporaneity, Shahryar emerges as a poet who sharpens the contours of modernism by asserting the establishment of new poetics.

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