How To Use Congeries In A Sentence
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The country, then a congeries of local economies and cultures, was not seeking what the presidential office was constitutionally designed to offer, namely, energetic leadership in behalf of national initiatives.
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The snow is melted by the wetness of the leaf, for water destroys it easily, passing through the thin contexture, it being nothing but a congeries of small bubbles; and therefore in very cold but moist places the snow melts as soon as in hot.
Symposiacs
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This is a point that may yet come home to cities that are currently embracing big-box retail development in place of the congeries of small shops and homes that exist now.
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At last, this paper analyses investment attraction and congeries characteristic of logistics industry of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.
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Urban is the congeries of population and economy, the urban system of an area has the trait of fractal at different time-space preconditions.
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Hamal was close to Sol and Terra, but it was also within the boundaries of the great Majoris Congeries, an intragalactic “open” cluster of twenty stars that was home to as many wildly diverse species, from methane-breathers to one winged species that found the atmospheres of stars congenial.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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No one has ever proved that it was a sunkiller bomb that made sigma-1014 Orionis go nova, but the destruction of the hearthworld of the Inshai Compact planets certainly suited the expansionist aims of their old enemies in trade, the "nonaligned" planets of the southern Orion Congeries.
The Romulan Way
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If literary texts cannot claim to embody universal or unmediated or noncontingent truth because everything is an artifact of incidental human activity, I cannot see any logically disallowed reason why one such activity could not be the study of literary texts for their posited "literary" qualities conceived as separate from their status as cultural representations, congeries of historical forces, conduits of sociological information, or whatever else works of literature can be considered good for.
Art and Culture
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As an archetypal constellation, he treats the trickster both as a congeries of abstractions and as a powerful, sometimes inspiring, sometimes destructive, and often possessing psychological force.
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Magnifying _Microscope_, I found that the tufts or haires of its Wings were nothing else but a congeries, or thick set cluster of small _vimina_ or twiggs, resembling a small twigg of Birch, stript or whitned, with which
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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It overshadows all other holidays and specialized days of whatever sort in that congeries of colonies.
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These very mirages are the unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances that crowd in upon you and form you out of the past, and that sweep you on into dissemination into other unthinkable and incalculable congeries of appearances to people the ghost land of the future.
Chapter 36
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The Dutch artist's vocabulary consists of forms such as beds; materials such as blankets, paper and string; and congeries of miscellaneous and banal found objects often presented in groups of five.
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Others feared complete disintegration, with the Midwest, the mid-Atlantic states and New England going their separate ways, creating a congeries of competing or even warring states—a North American "Balkans"—that would fall prey to foreign interference.
How America's Civil War Changed the World
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The rule and the subordination which is essential to the existence of the family, God made commensurate with mankind; for _mankind is only the congeries of families_.
Slavery Ordained of God
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On Saturday afternoon, at the park's western edge, a small group of citizens with connections to the military were standing next to a congeries of drummers, holding banners and signs that called for peace.
Eamon Murphy: Opposing the Wars at Occupy Wall Street
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No one has ever proved that it was a sunkiller bomb that made sigma-1014 Orionis go nova, but the destruction of the hearthworld of the Inshai Compact planets certainly suited the expansionist aims of their old enemies in trade, the “nonaligned” planets of the southern Orion Congeries.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
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My faith is a congeries of dogmatical certitudes, one of which is that the new liturgy is the triumph, yea the resurrection, of the Philistines. posted by John at 11: 07 AM
Leap Year -- Day
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To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
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(ko-uji) may be described as a congeries of from fifty to ninety blood relations.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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With its congeries of black sheep constituencies (Alex Jones Libertarian populists, movement leftists, anarchists, white supremacists, New World Order reactionaries, Protocols of the Elders of Zion anti-Semites, crusading architects and theologians) and its lack of a dominant leader or organization, the 9/11 Movement will likely never become unified enough to tear itself apart.
9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
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He endorses the conventional assumption that virtu is the name of that congeries of qualities which enables a prince to ally with Fortune and obtain honour, glory, and fame.
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Classical atomists conceived the universe as nothing more than an eternal congeries of material particles of different shapes and sizes perpetually in motion and continually coalescing to form unstable natural bodies.
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Whence this peculiar congeries of views, advanced with supreme self-confidence and heedless inattention to fact?
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It was on the periphery that the idea of ‘the British Empire as a congeries of territories linked by their commerce, united with common interests and centred politically upon London’ was most compelling.
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This congeries of topics enhances his story of the development of early American crime literature.
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To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
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The fact is, the stomach is not a single organ, but in reality a congeries of organs, each receiving its own proper kind of aliment, and developing itself by outward bumps and prominences, which indicate with amazing accuracy the existence of the particular faculty to which it has been assigned.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841
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In the very earliest works, humankind is most often figured as species, positioned within geological epochs and in elemental settings, rather than as a congeries of social beings within a recognizably human history.
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They started as congeries of commercial partnerships with a shared interest in excluding interlopers and securing the safety of their ships and fixed assets in parts of the world where no efficient or friendly state was to be found.
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Business in his day was a congeries of disconnected ventures.
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But this distinction does nothing to encourage us to think in terms of a single super-system or total view, rather than a congeries of relatively independent sub-systems.
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For the Galaxy is nothing else than a congeries of innumerable stars distributed in clusters.
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Therefore in many of such lower organisms such a congeries of ancestral gemmules must exist in every part of their bodies, since in them every part is capable of reproducing by gemmation.
On the Genesis of Species
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A book can be a collection of linked stories, or it can be an episodic novel whose chapters have sufficient unity to have been first published separately such as Faulkner's "The Unvanquished", and both are just dandy, but the form I call a congeries hovers somewhere in between.
And the Term is . . . Congeries
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Well, what about this particular congeries of curses?
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Japan's most established party of government was formed in 1955 as a congeries of centre and conservative groupings with the encouragement of business interests.
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It is difficult not to believe that at times our judges, in trying to craft general principles from of a confusing congeries of conflicting case-law, have simply failed adequately to understand it or the principles behind it.
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To a materialist, we are just congeries of atoms; and atoms must go whithersoever they are driven by the laws of physics and blind chance.
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These purposes may be various and many, but one and all, ever discovering new mutual interests and objects, obeying a law which is beyond them, these petty aggregations draw closer together, forming greater aggregations and congeries of aggregations.
The Shrinkage of the Planet
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Sir Alfred Lyall's employment of the term _Brahmanism_ rather than _Hinduism_, is in keeping with his description of Hinduism, which he defines as the congeries of diverse local beliefs and practices that are held together by the employment of brahmans as priests.
New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments
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Perhaps what is most remarkable about this elaborate congeries of thematic threads is that they never lead the poem into preciousness or turn it into an exercise in facility.