How To Use Commencement In A Sentence

  • Another survey at this location will be carried out after the commencement of the new school year. 3.
  • Traced downward, it covers the antero-superior surface of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum, and is carried down into a large free fold, known as the gastrocolic ligament or greater omentum. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
  • Best wishes and sincere congratulations on your graduation.May this special day be the commencement of the continued series of upward steps to further success.
  • At the commencement of the next song, the girl turns around to face her partner.
  • From this latter practice arose their name — CONDOTTIERI; a term formidable all over Italy, for a period, which concluded in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, but of which it is not so easy to ascertain the commencement. The Mysteries of Udolpho
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  • The two would get together at each commencement to compare their graduate tallies.
  • Far Orientals begin their year when Nature begins hers, instead of starting anachronously as we do in the very middle of the dead season, much as our colleges hold their commencements, on the last in place at on the first day of the academic term. The Soul of the Far East
  • The term preceding the Commencement of 1799 was especially stormy. History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
  • The Infinite and the Absolute are _only_ the names of two counter _imbecilities_ of the human mind" [296] -- that is, a mental inability to conceive an absolute limitation, or an infinite illimitation; an absolute commencement, or an infinite non-commencement. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
  • In the event of a misdeal, an irregular distribution of the cards, or the exposure of a card during the dealing, the dealer is looed -- the amount of the loo in this, and most [24] other cases of penalty prior to the commencement of the playing of the cards being the same as settled for a single loo -- and he immediately places the amount in the pool. Round Games with Cards A Practical Treatise on All the Most Popular Games, with Their Different Variations, and Hints for Their Practice
  • In those cases in which the phrenitis did not begin immediately, but about the third or fourth day, the disease was moderate at the commencement, but assumed a violent character about the seventh day. Of The Epidemics
  • About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
  • Fees receivable from group operations not directly managed are included as income at the commencement of the period of licence.
  • Graduation is not only an end to a period,also a commencement of a new period and I hope that future years will bring you continued happiness.
  • In the commencement, the student ought carefully to reperuse what he has written, correct, in the first instance, every error of orthography and grammar. John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
  • Then, in great precession we walked out to the field for commencement accompanied by bagpipes.
  • Thence proceeding westwardly along the south bank of the Cornwallis River to the point of commencement.
  • To get into the correct impact position, the clubhead must start to accelerate right from the commencement of the downswing.
  • At the commencement of the tournament it was made clear that referees had been instructed to apply Laws 18 and 19.
  • Participants signed a research consent form before commencement of the session.
  • 1836, Sir John Herschel writes as follows: 'If rocks have been so heated as to allow of a commencement of crystallisation, that is to say, if they have been heated to a point at which the particles can begin to move amongst themselves, or at least on their own axes, some general law must then determine the position in which these particles will rest on cooling. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
  • Commencement of performance pursuant to a purchase order constitutes acceptance by the Seller.
  • I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
  • But we shouldn't skim too quickly over these commencement addresses. Christianity Today
  • The date of commencement will be confirmed once people have indicated an interest in taking part.
  • At the commencement of the year 1804, Laplace, at the Institute, proposed to take advantage of the means offered by aerostation to verify at great heights certain scientific points -- as, for example, those which concern magnetism. Wonderful Balloon Ascents
  • The tenant remains in possession, and continues to pay rent as before, and becomes, from sufferance, a tenant from year to year, which can only be terminated by one party or the other giving the necessary six months’ notice to quit at the term corresponding with the commencement of the original tenancy. The Book of Household Management
  • In a recent commencement address, she gave graduates a few keys to being a well-rounded person.
  • (i) employees will receive a lump sum "agterskot" payment for service on the mines concerned from the commencement of the May ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Midland Life reserve the right to withdraw the offer at any time before the commencement of your Bond.
  • THE death of the parson was the commencement of a new era in the history of his slaves. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life
  • The scene during commencement, however, defied portrayals of a divided campus.
  • A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben 
  • Best wishes and sincere congratulations on your graduation.May this special day be the commencement of the continued series of upward steps to further success.
  • The high school commencement speaker was giving a rather conventional address. Christianity Today
  • January 21st, 2010 at 11: 20 am tombaker says: the pundits, the baggers, anyone can say anything now, it will all be for show, and nothing more. formal commencement of plutocracy is enacted. Think Progress » Barnicle: People now think Massachusetts is ‘part of America’ because of Brown’s election.
  • I'm hopeful and confident, too, that the graduation ceremonies will really be a commencement and that satisfying and rewarding experiences await you.
  • The January 2003 agreement was signed prior to the commencement of any civil proceedings.
  • Ten thousand men would fully cover the artillery and cavalry and perhaps considerably overgo it -- (The return for the 31st of May, just four days before the commencement of the movement, shows the infantry to have been 54,356 for duty, cavalry 9,536, and artillery 4,460, total 68,352. This return was not accessible to me when the within was written.)--150 guns would cover all of our artillery, and they consisted of field pieces, the most of which had been captured from the enemy. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
  • The honorary degree will be conferred during commencement weekend this May.
  • David Carson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, writes of Yogi's priceless commencement address at Saint Louis University on May 19th, 2007 which the author missed butcreateda copy of Yogi's oratory masterpiece~ which is fairly closeto the original Yogi speech. YOGI BERRA'S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
  • The offer remained open until one minute after the commencement of the trial.
  • Mr Bradley also refused to be drawn on a deadline for the commencement or a finishing date for the road.
  • He must have advisers who can tell him that we use commencements to bring out the best in young people.
  • That date has two significances, but, critically, it is the date of the commencement of the new preference regime.
  • For various reasons, not all graduates can or do attend their commencement ceremony.
  • The second possibility was a fixed date - some date in futurity, which could have been the commencement date.
  • It would appear at first sight, as if the discovery of these vortices would at once remedy the great defect in the theory of Redfield, viz.: that no adequate cause is assigned for the commencement and continuation of the vorticose motion, in the great circular whirlwinds which compose a storm. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
  • March this year saw the second trial phase and the commencement of full production.
  • All applicants should be at least 16 years of age at the commencement of this course.
  • The creature rapidly passed, leaving a regular wake, from the commencement of which, to the forepart, which was out of water, we judged its length to be about 80 feet; and this within rather than beyond the mark…
  • On Friday, I traveled to Annapolis, where I spoke at the Commencement of the United States Naval Academy.
  • Asian University hosted its annual commencement ceremony last week.
  • I'm never one who likes seeing speakers heckled or booed at college commencement speeches, pretty much no matter who they are.
  • There is a species of huckleberry common to the piny lands from the commencement of the Columbian valley to the seacoast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet. is a simple branching some what defuse stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric and of a dark brown, while the colateral branches are green smooth, squar, and put forth a number of alternate branches of the same colour and form from the two horizontal sides only. the fruit is a small deep perple berry which the natives inform us is very good. the leaf is thin of a pale green and small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accutely at the apex than near the insertion of the footstalk which is at the base; veined, nearly entire, serrate but so slightly so that it is scarcely perceptible; footstalk short and there position with rispect to each other is alternate and two ranked, proceeding from the horizontal sides of the bough only. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
  • All of them received schoolbooks, notebooks and other accessories every year, during the month of June, before the commencement of new academic year.
  • In setting up any committee to undertake this kind of work our organization is always particularly careful that all people who consider they have the right to give their views shall he notified from the very commencement and invited to cooperate in this work-not individually, but representatively. Empire Trade Requires Uniform Standards
  • A company in liquidation could not assert any cause of action it could not have asserted before the commencement of its liquidation. Times, Sunday Times
  • A distant sound, like that of the roaring of a lion, or not unsimilar to a large and deep gong of modern times, intimated the commencement of the ceremonial. Count Robert of Paris
  • A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • However, six months after commencement of my portion of the project, my industry sponsors canned their end of the deal.
  • Commencement of the Columbian Vally to the Sea coast; it rises to the hight of 6 or 8 feet, is a Simple branching, Somewhat defused Stem; the main body or trunk is cilindric branches are green Smothe squar, and put foth a number of alternet branches of the Same Colour and form from the two horizontal Sides only. the frute is a small deep purple berry which the nativs inform us is very good, the leaf is thin of a pale green and Small being 3/4 of an inch in length and 3/8 in width; oval terminateing more accoutely at the apax, than near the insersion of the footstalk which is at the base vened nearly entire; footstalks Short and their position in respect to each other is alternate and too ranked, proceeding from the horizontal Side of the bough only. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
  • Overall since commencement of production in the second half of 2005 until early December 2008, the Company has recovered some 352,000 carats of rough diamonds, of which 339,000 have been sold, including low grade industrial or boart stones, at an average price of $50 per carat. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Its first writer, indeed, died shortly after the commencement of that stormy age, and took no share in its Councils or sufferings; while the last hymnographer who bore a part in its proceedings, S. Joseph of the Studium, belongs to the decline of his art. Hymns of the Eastern Church
  • Company manners" are unknown to such children; and it is this early training which produces the charm of manner peculiar to high-bred persons; but the absolute perfection of manner is to be seen, only when the nature is as noble as the breeding; and politeness has been inculcated from the earliest commencement of life. A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
  • The claimant submitted that the steps should be restricted to those taken when proceedings were in contemplation or reasonably close to the commencement of proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
  • In terms of unsterilised female dogs and cats, the proposed by-laws say that there will be a grace period of 12 months after the commencement of these by-laws for the animals to be sterilised.
  • Traditionally, societies have specified an age as being appropriate for marriage or union formation and the commencement of family building.
  • At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called "the Mother of the Rice" (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowl's liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
  • This appeal turns upon the trial Judge's decision to admit that document in evidence as part of the Crowns case at the very commencement of the trial.
  • Thus: -- Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time. Lectures and Essays
  • Please note that you must have written permission from your parents before commencement of training.
  • Isn't that also in the ‘tradition’ of college commencements?
  • A date in September has yet to be confirmed for the commencement of services for in-patients.
  • impotence of thought" -- that is, by a mental inability to conceive an absolute limitation or an infinite illimitation, an absolute commencement or an infinite non-commencement. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
  • We have now arrived at the commencement of the long dispute about the "overlordship". An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
  • Langewiesche (it looks like a mouthful, but it's pronounced Langa-wisha) has been to the country 10 times since the commencement of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," and his astringent assessment of the situation there is not encouraging. The Fall of Summer
  • The contract prior to work commencement shall have in force employer's liability and public liability insurance for such sum and range of coverage to project.
  • It has made a mockery and a farce of the commencement date.
  • CLXXXVIII, 135-160), also edited by Watterich (Vitae Pontificum II, 323 - 374), and now to be read in Duchesne's edition of the Liber Pontificalis (II, 388-397; cf. proleg XXXVII-XLV), states that Boso, the author of it; was created cardinal-deacon of the title of Sts Cosmas and Damian, was chamberlain to Adrian and in constant and familiar attendance upon him from the commencement of his apostolate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • In insects we first find the distinct commencement of a separation between the muscular system, that is, organs of irritability, and the nervous system, that is, organs of sensibility; the former, however, maintaining a pre-eminence throughout, and the nerves themselves being probably subservient to the motory power. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
  • A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • In Britain commentators and policy makers are agog about a new U.S. doctrine, unveiled by President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point.
  • All applicants should be at least 16 years of age at the commencement of this course.
  • For instance, during the commencement of suckling, the milk is thick and creamy, similar to the biestings of a cow, which, if given to a babe of a few months old, would cause derangement of the stomach and bowels. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
  • A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben 
  • A fundamentalist church protesting a commencement address by Supreme Court Justice William Brennan hired a plane to tow a banner calling the jurist a "baby killer" and exhorting followers to pray for his death. I Pray the Lord Your Soul to Take
  • When we heard those stirring speeches at last spring's commencements, we left with optimistic determination that this was going to be our year.
  • The estimated commencement date is 1983, with an anticipated construction period of approximately 2 years.
  • The narrow-curved depression between the helix and the antihelix is called the scapha; the antihelix describes a curve around a deep, capacious cavity, the concha, which is partially divided into two parts by the crus or commencement of the helix; the upper part is termed the cymba conchæ, the lower part the cavum conchæ. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear
  • Before the commencement of the troubles of France, the universal cry in that country was "liberty and trade," and now their ports were completely shut to trade* The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ...
  • The commencement of articulate speech belongs to this period.
  • In a recent commencement address, she gave graduates a few keys to being a well-rounded person.
  • Before the commencement of this class of record, a charter of feoffment was practically the only written instrument by which lands or other hereditable estates were transferred or conveyed.
  • Graduation is not only an end to a period,also a commencement of a new period and I hope that future years will bring you continued happiness.
  • This work has been going on from the commencement of the period in the world's history known as the Pliocene Age, and it is reckoned that the interval which must have elapsed since then must have amounted to millions of years. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
  • It follows that one always knows the commencement date of a Community regulation without going outside the text of the regulation itself.
  • But I repeat here the statement made at the commencement of this paper, that in using this term "phoneticism," I include that which may, in a strict classification, be called ikonomatic. Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266.
  • Thus, jurisdiction is determined at the commencement not at the conclusion of the inquiry.
  • It has long been known that after fertilization of the egg has taken place, the formation of endosperm begins from the endosperm nucleus, and this had come to be regarded as the recommencement of the development of a prothallium after a pause following the reinvigorating union of the polar nuclei. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
  • Graduation is not only an end to a period,also a commencement of a new period and I hope that future years will bring you continued happiness.
  • They will come into place when all the conclusive maps of access land have been published and the Secretary of State has authorised their commencement.
  • For example, commencements of overseas students in Australian universities in IT courses increased.
  • I'm hopeful and confident, too, that the graduation ceremonies will really be a commencement and that satisfying and rewarding experiences await you.
  • On broad lines, then, we have among the Germans the following phases: vestiges of gynecocracy; equal rights; androcracy; commencement of equality. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
  • He appoints no _fecial_ messenger to proclaim, by an empty formality, the commencement of war. Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
  • In the athletae, embonpoint, if carried to its utmost limit, is dangerous, for they cannot remain in the same state nor be stationary; and since, then, they can neither remain stationary nor improve, it only remains for them to get worse; for these reasons the embonpoint should be reduced without delay, that the body may again have a commencement of reparation. Aphorisms
  • We are blessed at Harvard in not having some imported windbag sound off to us in the Commencement exercises in the morning.
  • The point to which we wish particularly to direct attention in connexion with this exposition of the phænomena attending the transmission of a storm is this: -- If the observer so place himself at the commencement that the wind passes _from his left hand towards his right_, his face will be directed towards the centre of the storm; and the wind undergoing no change in direction, but only in force, will acquaint him with this important fact that the _centre_ is not only gradually but surely approaching him: in other words, in the case before us, when he finds the wind from the S.E., and he places himself with his face to the The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves.
  • To satisfy the definition of unseaworthiness it must exist at the commencement of the voyage.
  • When the order of "boot and saddle" was given by Habershaw, the several members of the troop repaired to their horses, where a short time was spent in making ready for the march; after which the whole squad returned to the porch and occupied the few moments of delay in that loud and boisterous carousal which is apt to mark the conduct of such an ill-organized body in the interval immediately preceding the commencement of a day's ride. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
  • —The postero-medial ganglionic branches (Fig. 519) are a group of small arteries which arise at the commencement of the posterior cerebral artery: these, with similar branches from the posterior communicating, pierce the posterior perforated substance, and supply the medial surfaces of the thalami and the walls of the third ventricle. VI. The Arteries. 4. The Arteries of the Upper Extremity. a. The Subclavian Artery
  • In a commencement speech at military school, the president announced an expansive new policy of pre-emptive military action.
  • The obvious possibility was to restrict it to those steps that were taken after the commencement of proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the commencement he was troubled with nausea and cardialgia; thirsty, tongue was parched; urine thin and dark. Of The Epidemics
  • They captured him speaking at the commencement ceremony at Harvard University.
  • The project is scheduled for completion in five years from the date of commencement of work.
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  • Thereafter students shall enrol annually as required, normally at the commencement of the academic session. 2.
  • I cannot believe that the Isthmus of Panama has been open since the commencement of the glacial period; for, notwithstanding the fishes, so few shells, crustaceans, and, according to Agassiz, not one echinoderm is common to the sides. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
  • The high school commencement speaker was giving a rather conventional address. Christianity Today
  • It defers commencement by only a couple of months, but that couple of months is vital in terms of principle.
  • The estimated commencement date is 1983, with an anticipated construction period of approximately 2 years.
  • As this was the first well fortified town which we had seen, it was to us a matter of no ordinary interest, which was encreased by the remembrance of the celebrated siege which it had undergone from the English army at the commencement of the revolutionary war. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
  • The St. Basil the Great Award is given to the senior (third-year) student at commencement exercises, and to middler (second-year) and junior (first-year) students on the Feast of the Three Hierarchs. News from SVOTS.Edu
  • Publication in 1930 of Bernard Riviere's magnum opus ‘A History of the Birds of Norfolk’ marked the commencement of almost three decades of steady increase in the numbers of the skulking and ever secretive bittern.
  • Certainly Heidegger critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.
  • The "disrobe" plan started as a Facebook group, organized by the leading protest group, Take Back Commencement. Jett Wells: Sex Doll Crashes Jamie Dimon Commencement Speech (VIDEO)
  • In the tradition of the classic Harry and Louise commercials, two people (whom I will call "Gary and Bernice" who are both possibly members of the Pro-Life Action League and who could have probably been sighted at the gates of Notre Dame when Obama delivered the university's commencement) talk about how government is willing to pay for abortions but not a husband's surgery (kind of chauvinistic, if you ask me). Printing: The Right Wing War on Reproductive Health Care for Women
  • At the commencement of the reaping the stalks of this patch of rice are tied together into a sheaf, which is called “the Mother of the Rice” (ineno pae), and offerings in the shape of rice, fowl’s liver, eggs, and other things are laid down before it. Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands. § 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies
  • The relevant charter made between the time charterers and the ship owners will be signed before the end of the current year as well as the commencement of the conversion work.
  • O my lord, he replied, know that we have wandered from our course since the commencement of the contrary wind that was followed in the morning by a calm, in consequence of which we remained stationary two days; from that period we have deviated from our course for twenty-one days, and we have no wind to carry us back from the fate which awaits us after this day: to-morrow we shall arrive at a mountain of black stone, called loadstone: the current is now bearing us violently towards it, and the ships will fall in pieces, and every nail in them will fly to the mountain, and adhere to it; for God hath given to the loadstone a secret property by virtue of which everything of iron is attracted toward it. Nights 9-18. The Story of the Third Royal Mendicant.
  • Because, under the new system, with candidates admitted in March, there is still a "plebe" class above them who remain plebes until commencement in June. Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point
  • Kathleen tells me that her class has pooled their eveners to buy a Fardie for their school as a graduation present and that they are going to outswing it for the first time at the commencement exercises-then she had to hurry away because she had been co-opted in charge. Time For The Stars
  • He also expressed confidence that further improvements to the city's infrastructure would be witnessed with the commencement of the city bypass and outer ring road.
  • The creation morn is appropriately associated with these, it being the commencement of this world's day. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The only other person of importance in the town was a worthy predicant, who evidently had not had his hair cut since the commencement of the War, and who had great difficulty in keeping his little black wide-awake on his head. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
  • Were the commencement of the limitation period and the lack of any power to extend time sufficiently foreseeable in the present case? Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the keys to avoiding construction pitfalls is to obtain all permits before the commencement of work.
  • ‘It's never too late to try something different,’ she said before yesterday's commencement ceremony.
  • Traditionally, societies have specified an age as being appropriate for marriage or union formation and the commencement of family building.
  • Sources said money was not a problem for the commencement of the project.
  • Accordingly, we enclose a revised notice of an assured shorthold tenancy, having amended the term commencement date to today's date.
  • The commencement of the trial ended a period of intense speculation that Barry would reach a plea bargain with the federal authorities.
  • The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students
  • We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish. Treatise on the Love of God
  • Slowly but surely, the year wound down to the inevitable graduation and commencement.
  • I see a difference between using the punchline without attribution (the ancient rule for commencement speakers has been to "make them suffer") and using the whole opening, including its rather unusual word choices ( "harangue," "slavish in its obedience to ancient custom," "beg for mercy"). Is That Legal?: academia Archives
  • I recently heard a commencement speech by critic James Wood in which he lamented the loss of pungency from our lives—so much is now sanitized or hidden away from the public eye—and exhorted would-be writers to search deep in their imaginations for the primary details that animate prose and poetry. Notable & Quotable
  • She sat there for a while, in total silence, awaiting the commencement of the boy's game.
  • If necessary to retard the dyeing from the commencement, then an assistant mordant is added to the dye-bath, in the shape of soda crystals or phosphate of soda for the benzidine (p. 081) colours on cotton; bisulphate of soda or Glauber's salt in dyeing with azo colours or acid colours on wool; or tartar may be used in most cases with good effect, causing the wool to have a softer feel. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
  • Graduation is not only an end to a period,also a commencement of a new period and I hope that future years will bring you continued happiness.
  • And many were attacked with impairment or loss of speech; at first, those in the commencement of phthisis, but also persons in ardent fever and in phrenitis. Of The Epidemics
  • Nous croyons que le commencement et la fin du salut, la nouvelle naissance, la foi, la sanctification, la perseverance, sont un don gratuit de la misericorde divine; le vrai croyant ayant ete elu en The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • The results from exploration by the company since project commencement during mid 1999 are considered to be very encouraging for the discovery of diamondiferous kimberlite source rocks.
  • About six weeks after the commencement ceremony, I found myself hitching a ride with Jimmy and the folks over to the bus station; convinced I had a greater destiny than wasting my life in the little rinky-dink town I'd been born in.
  • You will remember that the date on the indictment for the commencement of this alleged conspiracy is the date that appears on the rent book.
  • Please specify commencement and completion date for the project.
  • The left gastroepiploic vein (v. gastroepiploica sinistra) receives branches from the antero-superior and postero-inferior surfaces of the stomach and from the greater omentum; it runs from right to left along the greater curvature of the stomach and ends in the commencement of the lienal vein. VII. The Veins. 4. The Portal System of Veins
  • The book takes the form of a diary or journal, complete with dates at the commencement of alternate short chapters.
  • At first the taking down and setting up all seems rather incongruous, but only until the band takes to the street and guests follow behind, once again signaled by the commencement of fireworks. A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition
  • A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • The year also saw the commencement of a major property development programme throughout the region.
  • Where the policy attaches while the ship is in port, there is also an implied warranty that she shall, at the commencement of the risk, be reasonably fit to encounter the ordinary perils of the port.
  • The period prescribed for the commencement of an action for mesne profits of real property is within 10 years.
  • Before you head out to one, cast your own memory back to a cookout, a commencement, a walk down a carnival midway in your past.
  • The magnificent forests there were mixed conifer/hardwood woodlands of great beauty and big paper mills came in there in the 1950s and guaranteed my friends the landowners that there would be more board feet of timber on the then virgin forestlands at the end of their proposed 99 year lease for tree harvesting than at the commencement of the lease. Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
  • It may serve as a commencement if I refer to the atchievement of Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
  • That is no reason why a contract should not subsequently be made to include an obligation of proper carriage from the commencement of the voyage.
  • The affidavit with appended exhibits was not served on the company until after the commencement of Mr. Hayer's cross-examination.
  • The philosopher critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.
  • In his 2005 Stanford Commencement address, Jobs, then on the mend, adjured the graduates, "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. John Maeda: Jobs Added Art to STEM to Create Steam
  • Thus the earliest moment at which a person could become a patient was at the commencement of the proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm hopeful and confident, too, that the graduation ceremonies will really be a commencement and that satisfying and rewarding experiences await you.
  • I guess the nuns must have asked for a beautiful day for our commencement.
  • I leave all this to the successor I pointed out in the commencement of this work, and satisfy myself merely with the prelibation, the right of the first comer to every sacrifice. The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
  • My last letter closed at the commencement of our voyage, since which we have been constantly under weigh, with the exception of short interruptions on the coast of Norfolk, in Yarmouth roads.
  • Best wishes and sincere congratulations on your graduation.May this special day be the commencement of the continued series of upward steps to further success.
  • 'Reptilia' -- the class which exhibits the largest proportion of entirely extinct forms of any one type, -- that of the 'Crocodilia', has persisted from at least the commencement of the Mesozoic epoch up to the present time with so much constancy, that the amount of change which it exhibits may fairly, in relation to the time which has elapsed, be called insignificant. Lectures and Essays
  • The temple has a record of these jewels, which are taken out of the safe a few days prior to the commencement of the festival.
  • We additionally encounter Launce, a singular of Shakspere's commencement oafish ridiculous characters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
  • A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben 
  • The International School of Port-of-Spain 2005 graduates happily throw their caps in the air at the end of the commencement programme.
  • Unlike in the movies, this commencement was long, boring and very unsatisfying.
  • The high school commencement speaker was giving a rather conventional address. Christianity Today
  • After commencement, Nolan sought out her and her family so he could congratulate her.
  • Many fundamentalists look for signs of the times that might indicate the actual commencement of the Apocalypse.
  • President Bush delivered the commencement address at the Air Force academy today.
  • The colour of her vestments is the one she had on when she assembled us at the commencement of Lent to sprinkle us with ashes; but when the dreaded day of Good Friday comes, purple would not sufficiently express the depth of her grief; she will clothe herself in black, as men do when mourning the death of a fellow-mortal; for Jesus, her Spouse, is to be put to death on that day: the sins of mankind and the rigours of the divine justice are then to weigh him down, and in all the realities of a last agony, He is to yield up His Soul to His Father. Gueranger: The Mystery of Passiontide and Holy Week
  • The cells that lie at the commencement of the combs and are attached to the hives, to the extent of two or three concentric circular rows, are small and devoid of honey; the cells that are well filled with honey are most thoroughly luted with wax. The History of Animals
  • Immediately on the commencement had thirst, nausea, and cardialgia; tongue dry; bowels disordered, with thin and scanty dejections; had no sleep. Of The Epidemics
  • What is celebrated is the first of the hot simoon winds which last fifty days, and apparently the day for their commencement is most accurately gauged. The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
  • It was only after he recited bismillah (Muslim phrase said prior to the commencement of any activity) that the lock turned.
  • Midland Life reserve the right to withdraw the offer at any time before the commencement of your Bond.
  • Its antero-superior surface supports the pylorus; its postero-inferior surface is in relation with the commencement of the portal vein; on the right it is grooved by the gastroduodenal artery. XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas
  • For an indictable offence, there is no formal time limit for the commencement of a prosecution.
  • The examiner ensured that the participants understood the directions and instructions prior to commencement.
  • The friend had been given an honorary degree at her commencement.
  • To get into the correct impact position, the clubhead must start to accelerate right from the commencement of the downswing.
  • But inasmuch as the keenest observer may overlook the right moment when the psoric poison begins to operate, it is well to forestall the enemy at the very commencement, which may be done with the more propriety, the more certainly we know that these two remedies, Apis and the anti-psoric, not only not counteract, but mutually support each other from the beginning to the end of the treatment. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent

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