Use system in a sentence
Sentences ending with system
- He said: 'There--now you have touched upon a crying defect in the complaint system. [5]
- He is acquainted with, and has access to, many of the planters who wish to adopt the system. [7]
- Perhaps, after a while, those Americans will come back and give New York also a good underground system. [5]
- The platysma myoides, which is well developed on the neck, belongs to this system. [1]
- No matter at what hour of day or night a train may arrive or depart at a country station in America, the loafers are so invariably there in waiting that they seem to be a part of our railway system. [4]
- And as there were no tasks, there was no system. [13]
- In its application we know there will be incidents temporarily painful; but, after all, those incidents will be fewer and less intense with than without the system. [7]
- The only safe way is that taught by horticulture, to feed a fruit-tree generously, so that it has vigor enough to throw off its degenerate tendencies and its enemies, or, as the doctors say in medical practice, bring up the general system. [4]
- It takes a very moderate amount of erudition to unearth a charlatan like the supposed father of the infinitesimal dosing system. [6]
- Dontchuknow, Archy could 've learnt something if he'd had the nous to stand by and take notice of how that man works the system. [5]
Short sentences using system
- That is the system. [7]
- He canvassed his system. [5]
- The system is pumped out. [11]
- These form the centripetal system. [6]
- These form the centrifugal system. [6]
- I can't work blindly--without system. [5]
- I prefer the American system. [5]
Sentences containing system two or more times
- I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
- The disuse of the apprentice system is not made good by the present system of education, because no one learns a trade well, and the consequence is poor work, and a sham civilization generally. [4]
- Was the Central system or the Pennsylvania system contemplating another raid? [4]
- By the latter system both the hotel and the public save money and are better served than by our system. [5]
- Here is a sentence or two from the article:-- "With all the faults of the system devised by the Puritans, it was a practical system. [6]
- However, no explanation of such a system can make it seem quite rational to a person who has been used to a more rational system. [5]
- Between you and me, it does gravel me, the cool way people from those monster worlds outside our system snub our little world, and even our system. [5]
- His system of inspection is perfect, and therefore cannot be improved on; but it seems to me that his system of collecting his fees might be amended. [5]
- If we could have had time to perfect our system at the South, to eliminate what was evil and develop what was good in it, we should have had a perfect system. [8]
More example sentences with the word system in them
- I rebel against your system of forced publicity. [6]
- I submit for your especial consideration whether our Indian system shall not be remodeled. [7]
- He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
- Then he added, with some grim humour, that if Druce had no objection to spending an hour with Roadmaster over a fire and a billy of tea, he would be glad of his company; for bushranging, according to his system, was but dull work. [11]
- The national system will create a reliable and permanent influence in support of the national credit and protect the people against losses in the use of paper money. [7]
- The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
- The acts to which I have referred were a part of a general system of Compromises. [7]
- These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
- Wasn't it understood, when that avenue was laid out, that it was to form part of the system of boulevards? [9]
- But its effects were soon felt; and then began a system of correspondence by signs, and the throwing of little scrawls done up in pellets, and announced by preliminary a'h'ms! [6]
- It would be well if such an excursion could be gotten up every year and the system regularly inaugurated. [5]
- Instead of that, we took it into our system, and it's being put on a permanent basis. [4]
- So again, "when we speak of three-score and ten, we are counting by the vigesimal system, each score thus ideally made, standing for 20--for 'one man' as a Mexican or Carib would put it. [1]
- Seems to me we had a man from there eight or nine hundred years ago--but people from that system very seldom enter by this gate. [5]
- Cambyses' successor, Darius, was the first to introduce a regular system of taxation, in consequence of which he was nicknamed "the shopkeeper. [10]
- Then, too, there was that "nerve-strengthening" patriotism which pervaded everything, filling the place of the superficial philanthropy of the Basedow system of education. [10]
- The Feudal system was showing what it could do, and the word had gone out to all the holders of fiefs that the vassals should be summoned. [9]
- By nature he was insolent, but under the system of control pursued by the officers of the Ariadne, previous to the mutiny, he had not been able to do much. [11]
- The European system was already founded; all that remained was to organize it. [2]
- Mr. C. Staniland Wake argues strongly ('Anthropologia,' March, 1874, p. 197) against the views held by these three writers on the former prevalence of almost promiscuous intercourse; and he thinks that the classificatory system of relationship can be otherwise explained. [1]
- When we exchange visits I'll show you an unfinished sketch of Elizabeth's time which shook David Gray's system up pretty exhaustively. [5]
- The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. [5]
- Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual. [10]
- They fought as valiantly as they could for the system of gradual emancipation which you pretend you would be glad to see succeed. [7]
- It is considered useful as "a pick me up," and it serves an admirable purpose in the social system. [6]
- The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
- France can teach us how to levy village and city taxes which distribute the burden with a nearer approach to perfect fairness than is the case in any other land; and she can teach us the wisest and surest system of collecting them that exists. [5]
- Now the drain upon the resources of the system produced in such a case must be at its minimum, for the subject is a powerful man, in the prime of life, and in admirable condition. [3]
- Illinois had gained upon that State under the public land system as it is. [7]
- Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
- No system was unknown to him, and though no one ever knew of his troubling himself particularly to study, he nevertheless was master of many departments of learning. [10]
- We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us. [7]
- He'll be anonymous under our system, anyway. [8]
- Disease, dis-ease,--disturbed quiet, uncomfortableness,--means imperfect or abnormal reaction of the living system, and its more or less permanent results. [3]
- And yet this truth, as Mr. Froude puts it, is only a half-truth, so that this single test of any system may not do for a given time and a limited area. [4]
- Now, it is true that the ultimate end of any system of government or civilization should be the improvement of the individual man. [4]
- The results of trials by competent and honest physicians, not pledged to the system. [3]
- A system of treatment was prescribed, which was afterwards ratified by the opinion of Dr. Forbes. [14]
- When General Curtis took command of the department, Mr. Dick, against whom I never knew anything to allege, had general charge of this system. [7]
- The question is too vast for the Drawer, but as an experiment in sociology it would like to see the system in abeyance for one season. [4]
- It is a too frequent fault of our common-school system that, owing to inadequate pay and ignorant selections, the teachers are not competent to their responsible task. [4]
- I again submit to your consideration the expediency of establishing a system for the encouragement of immigration. [7]
- Legislation in regard to the parole system has also considered whether a man should be considered in the criminal class on his first conviction for a penal offense. [4]
- Three modifications occur to me, either of which, I think, would be an improvement upon our present system. [7]
- Carnac Grier, true to his nature, had travelled from incident to incident, from capacity to capacity, apparently without system, yet actually with the keenest desire to fulfil himself; with an honesty as inveterate as his looks were good and his character filled with dark recesses. [11]
- We should hesitate to draw adverse conclusions in regard to a system yet so young that its results cannot be fairly estimated. [4]
- They were allowed to come in in that shape, because in another way it was paid for, considering that as a part of that system of measures called the Compromise of 1850, which finally included half-a-dozen acts. [7]
- We've tried not to be too serious in showing it, but we've felt that these modern business methods were getting into your system without your realizing it. [9]
- If she seems to be influenced at present by the French and Italian examples, we may be sure that she is too intelligent and too fond of freedom to long tolerate any system of chaperonage that she cannot control. [4]
- She had bitter thoughts sometimes of the world, and bitter thoughts of the false system that controlled his conduct, but never of him. [4]
- It was as though he had discharged into his system from some cells of his brain a flood which coursed like a stream of soft fire. [11]
- The whole of this vast postal system will be under the personal superintendence of Mr. Hale of Maine. [5]
- And what was this system which he had built up among these rural communities? [9]
- In short, by this system the burthen of revenue falls almost entirely on the wealthy and luxurious few, while the substantial and laboring many who live at home, and upon home products, go entirely free. [7]
- The result of this system is, that lecture-courses upon specialties of an unusual nature are often delivered to very slim audiences, while those upon more practical and every-day matters of education are delivered to very large ones. [5]
- If you think this moisture is bad you ought to see a mill with the old vapour-pot system with the steam shooting out into the room. [9]
- There's something about this medicine-chest system that's too many for me! [5]
- The effect which this had upon him was to put him greatly at his ease, and also to charge his system with very gratifying sensations. [5]
- You can alter this by muscular power, as you can take hold of the pendulum of a clock and make it move faster or slower; but your ordinary gait is timed by the same mechanism as the movements of the solar system. [6]
- To say that they are well is to understate the fact: the ruddy faces and clear eyes and hard muscles--even of those who once were pale London clerks--proclaim a triumph for the system of hygiene of their army. [9]
- Indeed, we believe they are only delaying an open avowal of the system till they can assure themselves that the people will tolerate it. [7]
- The nature of these differences is unknown, but they relate more especially to the reproductive system, and much less so to external structure or to ordinary differences in constitution. [1]
- What becomes of these alien substances after they get into the system we cannot always tell. [3]
- Existing conditions presented themselves, and it occurred to him that there were crevices in the town system, and ways into power through the crevices for men clever enough to find them. [9]
- But I got them out of my system, where they had been festering for years--and that was the main thing. [5]
- Above that condition their system can never lift him. [5]
- They were in the York and North-Midland Company, which was one of Mr. Hudson's pet lines, and had the full benefit of his peculiar system of management. [14]
- Why not put the whole system of criminal jurisprudence and procedure for the suppression of crime upon a sensible and scientific basis? [4]
- On the contrary, the whole force of this instinct throws itself on the centre of inhibition, instead of quickening the heart-beats, and sending the rush of youthful blood with fresh life through the entire system to the throbbing finger-tips. [6]
- The second is the vast system of iron muscles which, as it were, move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another. [6]
- The bird (with the toothpick in his mouth) creates a smile from other chiefs of the system in good standing who are not too busy to look at him. [9]
- I have known the term "spinal irritation" serve well on such occasions, but I think nothing on the whole has covered so much ground, and meant so little, and given such profound satisfaction to all parties, as the magnificent phrase "congestion of the portal system. [3]
- And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life. [7]
- If you think the system should be enlarged and reorganized I am willing at any time to go over it with you, with a view to making an additional contribution. [9]
- I recognized in the social system of undergraduate life at Harvard a reflection of that of a greater world where I hoped some day to shine; yet my ambition did not prey upon me. [9]
- I never read the sermons you refer to; I dare say they're crude, but they're probably attempts to release an explosive which would blow your comfortable social system and its authority into atoms. [9]
- Under his system the sailors had good coffee for breakfast, instead of a horrible mixture made of burnt biscuits cooked in foul water. [11]
- The other bird, the rebel of Leith, who has never been in the feudal system at all, they have stopped laughing at. [9]
- Or, to put the question in another form, does the system of education in our common schools give the pupils a taste for good literature or much power of discrimination? [4]
- Therefore in determining the position of man in the natural or genealogical system, the extreme development of his brain ought not to outweigh a multitude of resemblances in other less important or quite unimportant points. [1]
- The reduction of the population by Rhodesian methods to the desired limit is a return to the old-time slow-misery and lingering-death system of a discredited time and a crude "civilization. [5]
- They keep up the passport system here, but so they do in Turkey. [5]
- Cars will carry the ore through the tunnel and dump it in the mills and thus do away with the present costly system of double handling and transportation by mule teams. [5]
- Ten pen-strokes with the one system to convey those three words above, and thirty-three by the other! [5]
- He utterly rejected the old system, and Froebel stationed himself as a fellow-combatant at his side, but went still further. [10]
- One side ignored the necessity and magnified the evils of the system, while the other ignored the evils and magnified the necessity; and each bitterly assailed the other. [7]
- By this system the man who contents himself to live upon the products of his own country pays nothing at all. [7]
- The reaction of the living system is the essence of both. [3]
- And so, under the insidious mask of an invented "bloody massacre," I stole upon the public unawares with my scathing satire upon the dividend cooking system. [5]
- Scientists say that the human system has two nerve-centres--one in the brain, to which and from which are telegraphed all movements depending upon the will, and another in the small of the back, the centre of the involuntary operations of respiration, digestion, and so on. [4]
- That most of the horrible fractures I saw are healed, and healed quickly --thanks largely to the drainage system of our own Doctor Carrel--is not the least of the wonders of the remarkable times in which we live. [9]
- Some believed that the higher you build your levee, the higher the river's bottom will rise; and that consequently the levee system is a mistake. [5]
- Every ramble through the forest enriched our knowledge of plants and animals, and I soon knew the different varieties of stones also; yet we did not suspect that this knowledge was imparted according to a certain system. [10]
- Hence, whoever resists the final decision of the highest judicial tribunal aims a deadly blow at our whole republican system of government--a blow which, if successful, would place all our rights and liberties at the mercy of passion, anarchy, and violence. [7]
- Democracy in front, the Feudal System, the Dukes and Earls behind--but in plain clothes; Democracy in stars and spangles and trappings and insignia. [9]
- When we borrowed the feeing fashion from Europe a dozen years ago, the salary system ought to have been discontinued, of course. [5]
- The application of the English ticket-of-leave system was one of these efforts; it was based upon the notion that, if any criminal showed sufficient evidence of a wish to lead a different life, he should be conditionally released before the expiration of his sentence. [4]
- This was before the days when the wounded arrived by the thousands, when the zeal of the Southern ladies threatened to throw out of gear the workings of a great system. [9]
- The idea behind the company was a public-spirited one, to give the citizens cheaper and better service, by a more modern equipment, by a wider system of transfer. [9]
- Criticism which condemns the common-school system as a nurse of superficiality, mediocrity, and conceit does not need serious attention, any more than does the criticism that the universal opportunity of individual welfare offered by a republic fails to make a perfect government. [4]
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