How To Use Extent In A Sentence

  • At the extent of about 1/3 of the center of emission rim, the stimulated field density varies a little, can be basically considered as uniform field.
  • It is a display font whose forms are extremely thick, up to the extent of being nearly illegible.
  • And we -- it does extent all the way up toward Jacksonville, all the way down into West Palm Beach, all the way over to Fort Myers, and northward, almost kind of budging into the pan -- the Big Bend area, almost into the Panhandle, but not quite just yet. CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2004
  • Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth. Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
  • This is important for determining the extent to which the congregation may participate in the prayer.
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  • But the outburst served to confirm the extent of his alienation from reality.
  • Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant in the sense ‘generous in amount, extent’ or in the sense Perry suggests.
  • To determine the extent of gastric metaplasia, multiple biopsy specimens were collected from standardised sites of the duodenal bulb.
  • To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it's just the luck of the biological draw.
  • Since breads play a major role in Indian cuisine, the restaurant imported mud from specific regions of India to make the tandoor, influencing the taste to some extent.
  • _ When a scirrhus affects any gland of no great extent or sensibility, it is, after a long period of time, liable to suppurate without inducing fever, like the indolent tumors of the conglobate or lymphatic glands above mentioned; whence collections of matter are often found after death both in men and other animals; as in the liver of swine, which have been fed with the grounds of fermented mixtures in the distilleries. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • The full extent of the damages to the church's property has yet to be determined. Christianity Today
  • Now his placeman is prime minister, to what extent does he hold sway? Diary
  • The extrinsic or transmitted movements of the esophagus are respiratory and pulsatory, and to a slight extent, bechic. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • Our extensive battery of outcome measures, which focus mainly on physical benefits, is unlikely to capture the full extent of these apparent social benefits.
  • Federal Government is the exclusive judge of the extent as well as the limitations of its power, it seems to me to be utterly perversive of the sovereignty and independence of the States. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
  • To what extent did she influence his decision?
  • To a lesser extent, the jaw depressors (mainly digastric, geniohyoid and lateral pterygoid muscles) were examined.
  • They become like a friend for the extent of the show. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their clinical features were compared, as was the extent of disease, the clinical course, and prognosis.
  • Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present. Synthetic Tannins
  • The full range, extent, and nature of Starsmore’s psychic abilities remain unrevealed. Marvel Thursday Thirteen - SciFiChick.com
  • The textile industry still relies to some extent on sweated labour.
  • The extent to which the carrier has to undertake the loading of the vessel may depend not only upon different systems of law but upon the custom and practice of the port and the nature of the cargo.
  • But to some extent the role of central government is to encourage and cajole the national highways agencies and local councils to act to improve road safety. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
  • A U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee is scheduled to hear testimony on that issue Wednesday in Washington, D.C. "It's premature to start solving the problem until you know what the extent of it is," said Neil Donovan, the coalition's executive director. Attacks On Homeless To Be Hate Crimes In Florida
  • Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility. Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
  • In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
  • The deal that the company has done with the unions will compromise to some extent its ability to reduce staffing.
  • Every system which would escape the fate of an organism too rigid to adjust itself to its environment, must be plastic to the extent that the growth of knowledge demands.
  • I also said at the time that the extent of damage is a subject of considerable debate.
  • Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
  • So fie, for shame, and I declare myself rededicated to this humble art, even to the extent of journaling at work.
  • The recent extent of the Northern Hemisphere tree-ring densitometric network currently under construction which forms the basis of the results discussed in this paper. A Briffa Collation « Climate Audit
  • He will also be concerned at the extent of drug misuse. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is impossible to gauge the extent of the damage.
  • He was of a mild and cheerful temper, generous to the extent of his means, and of an inventive genius; and his conduct after marriage was irreproachable.
  • Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
  • The extent of the deal is undisclosed, but there was an asking price of £300,000 for the freehold.
  • The issue for her critics is the extent to which her populist approach has compromised the channel's public-service remit.
  • It's too early to assess the full extent of the damage.
  • But the painted kerbing and the gaily-coloured banners can't disguise the extent of the social and educational deprivation of this community.
  • Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • Forcible conscription of adults and children continued, although children were conscripted to a lesser extent than in the previous year.
  • Such an institution might boast not only the healthcare equivalent of hot-desking (which, to some extent, already happens) but also, for instance, operating theatres without walls.
  • The other squash we know and like is pumpkin, a winter squash used almost exclusively for pie in our country and to a lesser extent for baked goods such as breads, cakes and cookies.
  • Second, to what extent are the impediments determined by structural factors beyond the control of the region, and to what extent are they determined by endogenous factors that can be mitigated by regional policy?
  • Carpathia that he has often grumbled to the officers for what he called absurd precautions in lying to and wasting his time, which he regarded as very valuable; but after hearing of the Titanic's loss he recognized that he was to some extent responsible for the speed at which she had travelled, and would never be so again. The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons
  • Their commitment was only to maintain the extent of forests, not their biodiversity.
  • So if the visible universe were the extent of physical reality, physical reality would not even remotely contain the resources required to factorize such a large number. The Simulation Argument and Christianity « Anglican Samizdat
  • There is knowing and there is faith, the knowable is provable to a certain extent, faith is not, thus perpetuating the latter's own need tautologically. TEXAS FAITH: What's the role of religion in public education? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • To the extent of such a trifling loan as a crownpiece to a man of your talents, I look upon Mr Pecksniff as certain; 'and seeing at this juncture that the expression of Mr Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Various potassium silicates -- leucite, feldspar, sericite, and glauconite -- and the potassium sulphate, alunite, have received attention and certain of them have been utilized to a small extent, but none of them are normally able to compete on the market. The Economic Aspect of Geology
  • The four proteins that bound and eluted to the greatest extent were expressed in Escherichia coli as C-terminal fusion proteins of maltose binding protein (MBP), as the solubilities of the free proteins were too low to permit full characterization. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • To some extent they are complementary accounts, but they also propose alternatives with somewhat different purposes in mind.
  • The Prime Minister, for his part, relies to a large extent on the meditations of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
  • These are the main questions that I shall examine and, to some extent, try to answer in this chapter.
  • To a certain extent, we are all responsible for this tragic situation.
  • The tests make out that the structure of the frame is basically rational, and the frame can direct the working-out or recensing standards on the field of agricultural mechanization to some extent.
  • Unconformities vary in type from disconformities related to subaerial exposure to stratigraphic gaps of variable extent and their correlative paraconformities, followed by deepening surfaces.
  • The invisible components of civil society, whose extent is largely unknown, consist of those who prefer a personal rather than a ready-made set of values, people who never speak up, and people who admittedly do not want to be bothered.
  • It should be noted that these stages are to a considerable extent socially and economically determined.
  • Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
  • Fructose, aka levulose, found naturally in fruits and, to a lesser extent, vegetables, is the sweetest of all sugars.
  • Today the female tradition is continued to some extent inasmuch as most hospital, hospice, and district nurses who do the job are women.
  • The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
  • Yet he still trailed to a nonsensical extent. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was not possible to be prescriptive about the nature of the benefits which a school had to provide to the poor nor the extent of them. Times, Sunday Times
  • Countries differ however in the extent to which they wish to impose limitations.
  • Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
  • I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
  • When at all diseased the glenoidal surface of the navicular bone should be curetted, even to the extent of the removal of the whole of the cartilage. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • A report on the effect of spices on digestive enzymes mentioned that freshly prepared 1 per cent emulsion of asafoetida in water affected the activity of pepsin, trypsin and rennin in saliva to a small extent 41.
  • Nor can it effectively do justice in the individual case within the limits of its jurisdiction and to that extent vindicate the rule of law.
  • One other thing I took out of the film was that here was someone shown to some extent to be a fake, he was pretending to be an Indian, and I took a broader lesson.
  • The precise extent of unsown area can only be assessed after the end of this month, he said.
  • Substantial evidence now attests to the extent of doctors' unhappiness with the state of their relationships with managers.
  • Of these, only one had the invention perfected to the extent of using a dynamotor. Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Givin
  • The rubber mats had cushioned my fall to an extent, but the impact had still jarred. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
  • They do not bioaccumulate in biota to any appreciable extent, as they are largely metabolized.
  • Page 394 coursing through the green plains, and dark promontories, or obtuse projections of the side-long acclivities, alternately advancing or receding on the verge of the illumined native fields, to the utmost extent of sight; the summits of the acclivities afford, besides the forest trees already recited, Halesia, Ptelea, Circis, Cornus Florida and Amorpha. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
  • Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom. Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
  • The open ground was several acres in extent.
  • More alarmingly, the degree and extent of the complicity involved is shredding the credibility of the Hierarchy.
  • Even though the authorities were unwilling to acknowledge the extent of the disaster, some Western aid was accepted.
  • The anxiety that hovers over Parry is the extent of his musical profundity and insight.
  • To a large extent, initiative in policy formation is centered in the chief executive.
  • Growing cities, overuse of fertilizers, and factories that heedlessly dump wastewater have degraded China's water supplies to the extent that half the nation's rivers and lakes are severely polluted.
  • To the extent that this interpretation differed from that of the Inspector, the point needed no further explanation.
  • To an extent the ploy works. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the course of multiple research missions conducted in the last three months, scientists have employed and tested many techniques to better understand the extent of this unprecedented oil spill and have found fluorometric sampling to be useful to help identify the location and concentration of subsurface oil. NOAA News Releases
  • The extent to which school-to-work can raise academic achievement is less clear.
  • Radiation noise was also suppressed to a certain extent by changing rubber damping pad and altering shape of oil pan.
  • It was when he woke in the night that he realised the extent of his injuries and was distraught. The Sun
  • In Harare and Bulawayo and to a lesser extent in rural areas, there are many training centers.
  • Some of the characters tat were chosen to be developed for this title bothered me to an extent of never gaining the urge to even consider selecting their picture on the roster screen. Undefined
  • ETFs are, to a certain extent, blunt instruments. Times, Sunday Times
  • That each explains, at least to some extent, Jack's wincing behavior.
  • Homeowners and businessmen spent an anguished day poring over maps trying to determine the extent of damage to properties and livelihoods. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is not a totally unprincipled choice since the degree of foreseeability required may be varied with the kind and extent of the damage, and the nature of the relationship between the parties.
  • On the other hand, to the extent that a constructivist position can be transformed into a position that gayness is a "free" choice, it can be the grounds for arguing that the choice ought not to be made (Sedgwick, 41). Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality
  • She was able to tell them that he was an unenthusiastic convert to Shintoism. He retained his Buddhist beliefs to the extent that he forbade his servants to kill flies.
  • If we consider the complex character of our people, the variety of races which we have adopted into the Canadian family, the extent of territory over which they are scattered, the diversity of their interests, the difference of languages and resulting handicap in intercommunication, we have cause to marvel that the Canadian nation in so brief a period has become so united as it is. Some Canadian Problems
  • To what extent is it appropriate for judges to ‘borrow’ language from one side's brief?
  • Domestically, September 11 has sparked debate about the permissible extent of civil rights abridgements in times of national peril.
  • To see someone get their life back to such an extent after just four therapy sessions is rewarding beyond measure.
  • Naturally, given the extent of listings on these exchanges, most sectors of the Canadian economy are represented.
  • To some extent "workaholism" is a term others use to describe people who prefer to describe themselves as having a vocation. The limbic system stands up for its rights
  • To some extent we spend the remainder of our lives experimenting to see just how much of an effect we can have on that outside world. Know Your Own Mind
  • I didn't realise the extent of his unhappiness. Times, Sunday Times
  • No medication works in isolation but is affected to a greater or lesser extent by many other factors.
  • American television and cinema to my recollection has always featured sanctimonious public preachifying, to the extent that Eastwood mocks this rift in the American consciousness in “High Plains Drifter.” Fundamentalist obsession with the Crucifixion (Why are some people obsessed with the Crucifixion?, pt. 2)
  • It is pretty clear that they were to some extent under the influence of pique and irritation when they noticed his deviations from the established faith, and applied to him the epithet of "babbler;" but Paul was not the man to be put down either by irony or insult; and at length it was found necessary to allow him a fair opportunity of explaining his principles. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
  • In the first place, I must remark that these human remains, which are in my possession, are characterized like thousands of bones which I have lately been disinterring, by the extent of the decomposition which they have undergone, which is precisely the same as that of the extinct species: all, with a few exceptions, are broken; some few are rounded, as is frequently found to be the case in fossil remains of other species. On Some Fossil Remains of Man
  • I finally sat down to tot up the full extent of my debt.
  • From the roof we could see the full extent of the park.
  • It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
  • To the extent that Baker and Reynolds actually excised archaic and unrepentant parochialism rooted literally in past centuries of practice that gave rise to existential equal protection problems, sobeit. The Volokh Conspiracy » My Talk at the Constitution in 2020 Conference
  • To determine the extent of their external rotation, dancers should stand in first position with straight knees and no rolling over.
  • To what extent does this sequence correspond to a native speaker's processing of discourse?
  • Both of these applications of stock creation are finite in beneficial extent. Stock Options as Tax Deferral, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • In this study, the extent of reduction in seed production due to insufficient pollen quantity and quality were examined in a naturally pollinated M. stellata population.
  • Gardaí have repeatedly raised concerns at the poor security measures taken by many legal gun owners and the extent to which these firearms end up in the criminal underworld, to be used in shootings and murders.
  • It is not anti-military, but it does reflect–to a biassed extent–the "ugly American" construal of US intervention in global affairs. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
  • The extent of Lpr recovery and the photosynthetic parameters suggested that the tolerance of water stress in alfalfa was weak, while that of Longdong was stronger than Algonquin.Sentencedict
  • Another kind of price competition between supermarkets is in the extent and diversity of private label offerings, so-called store brands.
  • For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
  • Experts disagree about the possible extent to which nickel in foods can cause an allergic reaction.
  • She judged the garden to be about two acres in extent, and rejoiced anew at her amazing luck.
  • In the short term, to the extent that it enabled workers to recover entitlement losses, this merely shifted those losses from workers to other unsecured creditors who were in no way responsible for the problem.
  • For this reason, the authors warn that "innovative approaches for understanding the structure of Mexican Transnational Criminal Networks, their procedures, and more importantly, to what extent and perdurability they are reaching into the United States security agencies and institutions through corruption and co-optation, is essential in improving the U.S. capacity to face this serious challenge to its security agencies. José Fernando López: One-sided Death Toll
  • Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius 
  • The official figures do not reflect the full extent of the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • In other words, the natural world becomes visible only to the extent that it has been colored; that is, troped by our desire, which denaturalizes it, turns it into the trope through which it signifies itself.
  • This will relieve pressure on the trains to some extent.
  • To a certain extent undoubtedly this may be traced back to the new czar's personal relations with the rulers of other nations; for the czarina was a sister of The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
  • They are seen in a partisan perspective, a perception that limits the extent of their popular appeal.
  • This fact may to some extent explain the low standards of care and privacy sometimes experienced.
  • The extent of his acting ability is further shown in his portrayal of his own vagabond jazz trombonist father.
  • Well, to some extent, this seems indisputable. Times, Sunday Times
  • It takes place normally, to a slight extent, in certain cultivated forms of cotton, wherein the seeds are aggregated together into a reniform mass, whence the term kidney cotton. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • There are important variations, to be sure, in the conception of the extent of the in-group and in the limits of toleration of lying and stealing under certain conditions.
  • English and to a lesser extent Scottish aristocratic society were indeed notably fluid in the aftermath of the bouleversement of 1066.
  • Subclause was deleted and subclause was amended by adding, at the end of the clause, the phrase ‘except to the extent such claim has been disclosed in schedule 4.34.
  • To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • The Carnatic is a country not much inferior in extent to England. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
  • A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
  • To a certain extent, fashionable ways of speaking affect all of us, across a wide age range. Times, Sunday Times
  • I like modern art to a certain extent/degree, but I don't like the really experimental stuff.
  • To a certain extent, just about every business here is dependent on tourism.
  • The premium is again relatively cheap, depending on the extent of cover, and varies from about £3 to £10.
  • But I'll tell you this, sir, that those units that have been extended here for 15 months, I applaud what their commanders and senior non-commissioned officers have done, because they've implemented what we refer to as a fighter management program, which provides for the maximum extent possible every bit of rest and recovery we possibly can for our troopers before we push them back out in the streets. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2007
  • To the extent that educational programs purport to teach social knowledge, legitimate opportunities for social interaction must be provided.
  • A survey has been designed and carried out to assess the extent of library materials within the group that remain either on card catalogue or indeed completely uncatalogued.
  • He submits that the formula is working, to the extent that the company moved into the black in January, according to its CEO.
  • Making all allowance for the older sources utilised, and to a large extent transcribed word for word, in Judges, Samuel, and Kings, we find that apart from the Pentateuch the preexilic portion of the Old Testament amounts in bulk to little more than the half of the entire volume. Prolegomena
  • It does, however, seem probable that Luke has to some extent glozed over the asperity of the controversies within the Church, notably the opposition to Paul and his views as described by Paul himself in Galatians and II Corinthians, in his attempt to emphasise the fundamental unity of the early Church.
  • To the extent that the motion for leave to submit surrebuttal is a motion to compel, as discussed above, it is denied.
  • The power of that species of poetry to which we allude is now greatly increased also, at least in extent of operation, by the admission among the number of judges, of so great a mass of half-educated persons, to whom the story is every thing, and the poetry almost nothing. A Review of 'The Sceptic; a Poem'
  • This situation is far from ideal, but the alternative … would invariability produce earlier estimates of past temperature that, to some extent, too warm. Bristlecones and Sagebrush « Climate Audit
  • The following examples demonstrate this to some extent.
  • She was aghast at the extent of the damage to her car.
  • He said that after a series of visits to different parts of the province he was particularly struck by the extent of demotivation and disillusionment among members.
  • By virtue of the same right, if the demesne of a lord was so placed that it had no natural height from which to survey its extent, his vassals were made to bring sufficient cart-loads of earth to raise a mound or "motte" of the requisite elevation. Brittany & Its Byways
  • Axial radiographs can demonstrate the presence of trochlear dysplasia, patellar tilt or subluxation, and the extent of patellofemoral arthritis.
  • Instead, it piles on the daffiness and winsomeness to such an extent that you keep thinking this trio must have trained at the Bridget Jones school of clowning.
  • Will we not have to make a decision in advance of what the extent of the motorway's influence has been?
  • Ultimately, if America is going to dissave to this extent, there are only a few ways to make the equation work — we will either need to accept a lower level of investment or rely on an increase in personal savings, higher levels of retained earnings by corporations, or greater foreign purchases of our debt. Treasurys and the Danger of Short-Term Debt
  • Until we have a good picture of the extent and nature of poverty we can't develop sustainable, effective policy responses.
  • The government itself has little information on the extent of industrial pollution.
  • Based on polyp size, corallite structure, and surface area considerations, M. faveolata appears to depend on photoautotrophy versus heterotrophy to a greater extent than its congener, M. cavernosa.
  • To the extent that it actually boosts consumption at the expense of investment and the foreign trade balance, the net result from a macro perspective is overall impoverishment.
  • For adult, non-residential care services the council has discretion as to the extent and level of charges it makes, but not when it comes to residential homes.
  • Fortunately Persian, up to a certain extent, is an exceedingly easy language, more so even than Italian. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
  • It is one of the extraordinary anomalies of the system, that combined with these principles of self-reliance and perfectibility, Buddhism has incorporated to a certain extent the doctrine of fate or "necessity," under which it demonstrates that adverse events are the general results of _akusala_ or moral demerit in some previous stage of existence. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Debt management ratios assess the extent to which an organization used debt to finance investments.
  • The government itself has little information on the extent of industrial pollution.
  • Put briefly, the rigorous econometric analysis undertaken by these four scholars led them to conclude that "to the extent that counterinsurgent forces engage in unpopular and aggressive operations that generate specific local grievances, they are likely to facilitate increased recruitment and support for insurgent groups. Jay Mandle: War Does Not Promote Democracy
  • Thus far and to this extent any man may be an 'emigrationist.' Frederick Douglass
  • Offenders of intellectual property violations will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
  • Well, I think, to some extent, the liberal media was always a myth and exaggeration.
  • The company has led the field to such an extent, and has produced so much good work over the last decade that has not been rewarded with Oscars, that I thought it a little sad that the first award went to the upstarts.
  • In this state, the walls of the organ are sometimes increased in thickness to the extent of ten or twelve lines, and are sometimes found also in a scirrhous or cancerous condition. Select Temperance Tracts
  • As a ratepayer I am most concerned by this statement and would ask Mr Bloxham to elaborate on what he means by ‘support’ and what extent of support is required.
  • In general there is an inverse correlation between the extent of drainage and northerliness. Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic
  • To an extent, I'm working blind, and have to step back several paces to check I've got everything that ought to be got.
  • The severity and frequency of attacks varies due to the extent of the disease.
  • You may not • work around any technical limitations in the software; • reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;" This clause completely doesn't apply. "work around any * technical* limitations in the software" well, there weren't any technical limitations, only legal ones. TestDriven.NET by Jamie Cansdale
  • Fashionable habits of dress -- tight lacing, which is worse to-day than ever before -- has, to a large extent, destroyed the ability of the New England and other native American women to bear healthy and well-developed children, and to properly nurse them after they are born. Personal Experience of a Physician
  • The extent to which this depositing of material will go is well illustrated in some cases of multiple articular rheumatism, or arthritis deformans, where the deposits are so great that many of the joints become fixed (anchylosed). Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
  • The correlation between the reducing sugar content of tubers and the extent of browning during processing has been documented.
  • The devolution of political power to Scotland, and to a lesser extent to Wales, has changed the political landscape.
  • Considering the extent of his injuries he's lucky to be alive.
  • The film's children are all non-professionals, however, and one wonders to what extent they themselves are products of Glasgow's mean streets.
  • They become like a friend for the extent of the show. Times, Sunday Times
  • Genius is hard work, someone once said. If this is not entirely correct, at least it is to a great extent right.
  • It could be argued that to a large extent such fears are unfounded or else that the difficulties have been overcome.
  • He had withdrawn from the company of his friends to an alarming extent.
  • People truly do not understand the extent to which new media is not a business," said Marshall Herskovitz, the veteran television producer who last year declared his independence from the networks and created "quarterlife," a web series and social media hub. Sharon Waxman: Can Hollywood Make Like Obama -- and Change?

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