Gist Sentence Examples

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  • This must have been the gist of the special revelation.

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  • They sent a copy of their old creed to Babken, and it closely resembles the Adoptianist creed of Archelaus, the gist of which was that Jesus, until his thirtieth year, was a man mortal like other men; then, because he was righteous above all others, he was promoted to the honour and name of Son of God.

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  • Hart in The Jewish Quarterly Review for July 1907, the gist of which is that Jesus commends the Pharisees for insisting that when a man has vowed a vow to God he should pay it even though his parents should suffer.

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  • The older one contains still a good deal of prose, the gist of it being often repeated in the verses.

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  • In reviewing an incident so important in the history of the Transvaal as the appointment of the Potchefstroom assembly it is of interest to note the gist of the complaint among the Boers which led to this revolution in the government of the country as it had previously existed.

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  • I think that the Leader of the House has the gist.

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  • His creed, and the whole gist of his argument, is expressed in a single sentence, "I am fully assured that God does not, and therefore that men ought not to, require any more of any man than this, to believe the Scripture to be God's word, and to endeavour to find the true sense of it, and to live according to it."

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  • The gist of his system, which is known as "equiprobabilism," is that the more indulgent opinion may always be followed, whenever the authorities in its favour are as good, or nearly as good, as those on the other side.

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  • This company in 1750 sent Christopher Gist down the Ohio river to explore the country as far as the mouth of the Scioto river; and four years later the erection of a fort was begun in its interest at the forks of the Ohio.

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  • Here, in the gist of the " booklet " received from the hand of a female figure representing the Church, we have in germ the message of The Shepherd.

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  • In the Biographia he avows that the writings of Kant "more than any other work, at once invigorated and disciplined my understanding"; yet the gist of his estimate there is that Kant left his system undeveloped, as regards his idea of the Noumenon, for fear of orthodox persecution - a judgment hardly compatible with any assumption of Kant's Christian orthodoxy, which was notoriously inadequate.

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  • The gist public astonishment, when the case came on for trial there was no defence, and on the 17th of November 1890 a decree nisi was granted.

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  • The House has got the gist of the argument.

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  • In this place it must suffice to indicate the gist of the more recent developments of the electro-optical theory, which involve the dynamical verification of Fresnel's hypothesis regarding optical convection and the other relations above described.

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  • But his main sympathy was with Fechner, the gist of whose " inner psychophysics " he adopted, without, however, the hypothesis that what is conscious in us is conscious in the all-embracing spirit of God.

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  • Now we can understand well the gist of the parable.

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  • This is not the time to write pages of glowing prose; the reader should get the immediate gist of the request.

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  • He made several speeches in the country in this year and the next, of which the gist was that British trade policy must be relative to circumstances, which had wholly changed from what they were in Cobden's time.

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  • It can also help you to follow the gist of some text in another language by translating it into your own language.

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  • However, the general gist of the warning usually remains the same.

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  • The main gist of the story can be found at the New Scientist website.

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  • Try to think of a short phrase that sums up the gist of the memo.

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  • In1750-1751Christopher Gist, a skilful woodsman and surveyor, explored for the company the Ohio Valley as far as the mouth of the Scioto river.

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  • It was an indignant letter, the main gist of which was "Don't flog the willing horse."

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  • Cut to an empty Bucharest airport luggage carousel you've probably guessed the gist of our problem.

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  • Anybody who has played a typical Japanese-style RPG will know the gist of this system automatically from that comment.

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  • A structured assessment was carried out of the Novartis economic evaluation of imatinib for unresectable and/or metastatic gist.

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  • The diary kept by the young surveyor indicates that there were already many squatters, largely of German origin, along the South Branch of the Potomac. Christopher Gist, a surveyor in the employ of the first Ohio Company (see Ohio Company), which was composed chiefly of Virginians, in1751-1752explored the country along the Ohio river north of the mouth of the Kanawha, and the company sought to have a fourteenth colony established with the name " Vandalia."

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  • Documents accumulated from court to court, till none but the clerks who had written them could tell their gist; costs were piled up; and all this, combined with the confusion caused by the chaotic mass of imperial ukazes, ordinances and ancient laws - often inconsistent or flatly contradictory - made the administration of justice, if possible, more dilatory and capricious than in the old, unreformed English court of chancery.

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  • In that year they were lost; and the legists tell us that they are attempting to reconstruct par oir dire the gist of the lost archetype.

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  • The gist of the latter method is that a design chiselled d jour has its outlines veneered with other metal which serves to emphasize them.

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  • Thus the noun is used for a summary, compendium or epitome of a larger work, the gist of which is given in a concentrated form.

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  • This must have been the gist of the special revelation which he had received from.

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  • It concluded with a list of demands (see Transvaal), their gist being " the establishment of this republic as a true republic " with equitable franchise laws, an independent judicature and free trade in South African products.

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  • She paused as if she felt it indecorous to speak of her pregnancy before Pierre, though the gist of the matter lay in that.

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  • The gist lies in the very existence of the soviet republic.

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  • Review Gist claims to read all of a product's reviews published elsewhere, and comes up with an average rating and short summary review.

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  • Microsoft does warn you that while you can get the gist of a meaning, a human translator is the best way to translate text.

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  • The gist of the summary states, however, that sleepwear should self-extinguish for children who are aged nine months and older.

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  • Another way you can get a gist of the fighting styles of these characters is to observe their moves in the "Watch Mode".

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  • Similar to Clue, the gist of the story is that a group of people got together and one of them is mysteriously murdered.

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  • Once you get the gist of the story and start your new journey, you'll find all the familiar elements that made the first Half-life successful.

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  • For those who have never tried the original Lumines, the tutorial offered will help new players quickly get into the gist of the game.

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  • The tricky part is trying to get used to throwing spears, but once you get the gist of it, they are very effective weapons.

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  • That price might be reasonable for most games on the market, but considering you can get the gist of Text Twist for free, I'd be hesitant to spend that kind of coin.

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  • Then read on, not only to get a gist of why this game is so popular, but also for several tips, hints, and strategies to help you along your bubble bursting journey.

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  • If a group dance starts up, as often is the case at a country line dancing bar, join in if you feel you can get the gist of the movements.

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  • Embody the "girl-next-door" vibe and you've got the gist of it.

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  • The gist of the game -- both then and today -- it is to capture or sink the other person's battleships through a series of strategic moves.

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  • Now that you understand the gist of a discreet relationship, where do people looking for discreet relationships find them?

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  • Even though you can "catch up" by watching a few episodes after that, and have figured out the gist of what you missed in that episode, it's still nice to review everything that happened.

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  • With that said, translating pages does tend to produce more accurate results than does translating a single phrase or word at a time simply because the tool can use the context in order to get the right gist of the text.

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  • The math gets a lot more complicated after that, but the gist of it is that while the number 0 is also 00 in hex, the number 255 is written with the letters FF.

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  • He remembered how carefully and at what length everything relating to form and procedure was discussed at those meetings, and how sedulously and promptly all that related to the gist of the business was evaded.

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  • In the next year Christopher Gist, while on a similar mission for the Ohio Company, explored the country westward from the mouth of the Scioto river.

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