Punctual Sentence Examples

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  • He was as punctual as midnight.

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  • He was a faithful friend and remarkable for his punctual attendance.

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  • Applying this " synechological view " to the supposed inclusion of soul in soul, he deduced the conclusion that, as here the nature of one's soul is to unite one's little body, so hereafter its essence will be to unite a greater body, while God's spirit unites the whole world by His omnipresence; and he pertinently asked, in opposition to the " punctual " view, whether God's soul is centred in a point.

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  • He was fond of gaiety and of sport; but neither ever turned him away from the punctual and laborious discharge of his royal duties.

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  • He was always punctual.

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  • In his habits he was punctual and regular, transacting his business early in the morning, and enjoying his siesta after a drive.

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  • He was as punctual as Denton.

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  • It's your responsibility to be punctual and dependable.

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  • Punctual payment is of the essence of the contract.

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  • It is good that most children at St Mary 's are always punctual for school.

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  • As a result, full and punctual attendance is a requirement for ongoing membership.

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  • The main effect was to give to the Egyptian government a free hand in the disposal of its own resources so long as the punctual payment of interest on the debt was assured.

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  • Be punctual for meetings, shake hands on greeting and exchange business cards.

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  • It is good that most children at St Mary's are always punctual for school.

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  • We pride ourselves on our very smart, punctual staff and they are all extremely discreet.

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  • Please be punctual for appointments as agents and proprietors will be waiting for you.

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  • That means fast, punctual trains; a modernized efficient London Underground; cities not gummed up by congestion.

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  • A punctual arrival was made at the Moors Center in Danby, leaving me with 40 minutes to spare.

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  • You must attend all courses on a punctual basis unless prevented by events beyond your reasonable control.

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  • I was told you had to be extremely punctual - that that was an issue.

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  • According to the plan, trains were to be made more punctual.

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  • So punctual were we that we actually had time for a little terrace birdwatching before leaving the hotel at 8am.

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  • The drivers were very punctual at both ends of our holiday.

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  • The 24th of November falling on a Sunday, his clerical duties threatened fatally to clash with his astronomical observations; he was, however, released just in time to witness the punctual verification of his forecast, and carefully noted the progress of the phenomenon during half an hour before sunset (3.15 to 3.45).

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  • With the widest range of holidays available, all linked to the most punctual charter airline, your bound to find the perfect holiday.

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  • Schools should always let EMAS know if this does not happen and/or the bilingual assistant is not punctual.

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  • According to Father Greenway he was "a man of great piety, of exemplary temperance, of mild and cheerful demeanour, an enemy of broils and disputes, a faithful friend and remarkable for his punctual attendance upon religious observances," while his society was "sought by all the most distinguished in the archduke's camp for nobility and virtue."

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  • Under the influence of Leibnitz, Boscovich, Kant and Herbart, he supposed that bodies are divisible into punctual atoms, which are not bodies, but centres of forces of attraction and repulsion; that impenetrability is a result of repulsive force; and that force itself is only law - taking as an instance that Newtonian force of attraction whose process we do not understand, and neglecting that Newtonian force of pressure and impact whose process we do understand from the collision of bodies already extended and resisting.

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  • The consistent aim of the British authorities has been to establish private property in the soil, so far as is consistent with the punctual payment of the revenue.

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  • He aspired to convince the better minds that the only hope for Israelites, as well as for Israel, lay in " returning " to the true Yahweh, a deity who was no mere national god, and was not to be cajoled by the punctual offering of costly sacrifices.

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  • The authorities in England favoured the zamindars system already at work in Bengal, which appeared at least calculated to secure punctual payment.

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  • His tremendous physical strength, the personal ascendancy he gained by this and by his powers of command made him a peculiarly formidable opponent, and thus enabled him to maintain a discipline which guaranteed the punctual execution of his orders.

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