interposition

How To Use interposition In A Sentence

• That if the sole reasonable occasion of the interposition of the Court in this case was the defendant's wife being then an infant, she was now of age, and present in Court, ready to give her consent that her husband should have the residue of her portion; which consent of hers before a judge, upon a fine, would devest her of any real estate, a fortiori would such con - sent when given by her before the ZfOrd Chancellor himself, be Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]
• The clouds, as if by Divine interposition, were entirely dispersed, and I was once more invited to the grateful task of repeating my observations.
• So wisely I shut my letter, (after unwisely having driven everything to the last moment!) -- and now I have silk to tie fast with ... to tie a 'nodus' ... 'dignus' of the celestial interposition -- and a new packet shall be ready to go to you directly. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
• Following St. Gregory of Nyssa's account, Brandon labels that something as "interposition" and fleshes out a bit about what that meant for Gregory. Archive 2007-05-01
• Alone among the arts, music addresses and speaks directly to the center of feeling, bypassing altogether, and with no need of the interposition of, the intellectual faculty.
• Objective:To evaluate the clinical application value of pedicled ileocecum interposition graft as gastric replacement during the operation for cardia carcinoma.
• Pictures of slain, undersized whales, and the dramatic interposition of tiny Zodiacs between giant whaling ships and their quarry created a media storm when released during an International Whaling Commission meeting.
• This providential interposition is all the more remarkable, that, as in the analogous case of Joseph, it was displayed in making the ordinary and natural course of things lead to the most marvellous results. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• A miracle is ‘a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent’.
• As a fleet of Communist junks prepared to cross the straits, the KMT was saved from ejection by the Korean War and the interposition of the American Seventh Fleet.