Gives-up Sentence Examples

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  • In bad years the tiller, moreover, gives up seed corn before beginning harvest.

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  • The doctrine of indifference as it appears in later writers certainly tends, as Prantl points out, towards Nominalism, inasmuch as it gives up the substantiality of the universals.

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  • Oxidation may be effected by the addition to the glass mixture of a substance which gives up oxygen at a high temperature, such as manganese dioxide or arsenic trioxide.

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  • On the whole the air S within ABCD neither gains nor g D loses momentum, so that on the whole it receives as much through AB as it gives up to CD.

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  • Thus in presence of the problem which is the crux of materialism, the origin of consciousness, he first propounds a gratuitous hypothesis that everything has mind, and then gives up the origin of conscious mind after all.

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  • It is almost superfluous to remark, first, that Hume here deliberately gives up his fundamental principle that ideas are but the fainter copies of impressions, for it can never be maintained that order of disposition is an impression, and, secondly, that he fails to offer any explanation of the mode in which coexistence and succession are possible elements, of cognition in a conscious experience made up of isolated presentations and representations.

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  • The piston (B) descends, and the air, now in contact with the cooling pipes (C), gives up heat to them.

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  • Starting from the fact that if an electrified globe, placed within two hemispheres which fit over it without touching, is brought in contact with these hemispheres, it gives up the whole of its charge to them - in other words, that the charge on an electrified body is wholly on the surface - he was able to deduce by most ingenious reasoning the law that electric force varies inversely as the square of the distance.

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  • It is a pale yellow powder (of specific gravity 6.5), which on being heated strongly gives up oxygen and forms the tetroxide.

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  • Later evangelicalism in the English-speaking lands gives up belief in predestination, or at least, with very few exceptions, holds it less strongly.

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  • We learn in them how Caliban (democracy), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler; how Prospero (the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman, and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory; how Ariel (the religious principle) acquires a firmer hold on life, and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.

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  • In bad years the tiller, moreover, gives up seed corn befote beginning harvest.

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  • He will be unharmed providing Blake gives up his quest to bring the villainous organization to justice.

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  • The game continues until everyone has been found or "it" gives up.

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  • Far Cry gives up the standard Deathmatch, capture the flag, etc. One mode that is extremely fun to play is "Predator".

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  • While the story varies in terms of what exactly she gives up and what happens after, there is a definite theme of "letting go."

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  • When it is simply not possible to avoid foreclosure - or when the homeowner simply gives up and decides to walk away from the home - the home is sometimes sold at a price that may be less than market value.

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  • Luis eventually must rescue her from the asylum to which she is committed, they adopt a new child, but Maria never gives up hope of finding the son she gave up for adoption.

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  • This season features a Grey's Anatomy crossover when Miranda brings a kidney transplant to L.A. Violet gives up her baby to Pete while she recovers.

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  • On this track from his new album, he gives up the name crusade for a more timely crusade - global warming awareness.

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  • The last thing you want is for your website to succeed in selling your product and then have the payment process so inconvenient that the customer gives up!

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