Precluded Sentence Examples

precluded
  • These events precluded the possibility of success attending a second mission of Maret to London in January.

    11
    5
  • This knowledge, as Aristotle held, might be permanently precluded by vicious habits, or temporarily obliterated by passion, but if present in the mind it must produce rightness of purpose.

    7
    3
  • In cases where such an explanation is precluded by the nature of the details foreshadowed, the evidence is found to be defective, generally from the absence of contemporary documents.

    6
    3
  • In some cultivated races of barley, crossfertilization is precluded, as the flowers never open.

    3
    1
  • This time the Abyssinians were more successful, and beat the rebels in a pitched fight; but the difficulties of the country again precluded effective co-operation.

    6
    4
  • The Minor Church included many Polish magnates, but their adoption of the views of Sozzini, which precluded Christians from magisterial office, rendered them politically powerless.

    4
    2
  • The licensee was precluded from opening public call offices and from laying trunk lines from one town to another.

    4
    3
  • Baratieri, anxious probably to obtain some success before the arrival of Baldissera, and alarmed by the rapid diminution of his stores, which precluded further immobility, called a council of war (29th of February) and obtained the approval of the divisional commanders for a plan of attack.

    3
    2
  • The sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist shall be freely administered in the two kinds, that is bread and wine, to all the faithful in Christ who are not precluded by mortal sin - according to the word and disposition of Our Saviour.

    4
    3
  • However we may explain the inconsistency, we are precluded by the moral earnestness of the writer from assuming the visions to be pure inventions.

    4
    3
    Advertisement
  • In short, the attitude of the sophists towards inquiry in general precluded them, collectively and individually, from attachment to any particular theory.

    3
    2
  • But, above all, it is antecedently certain that defection from the ordinary standard of morality would have precluded the success which the sophists unquestionably sought and won.

    3
    2
  • The subsequent invasions of the Goths, in battle with whom Valens fell at Adrianople (375), definitely precluded Roman intervention; and the end of the Armenian troubles was that (c. 390) Bahram IV.

    4
    3
  • His programme included drastic proposals for financial reform, which necessarily precluded an adventurous policy abroad or any additional expenditure on armaments, principles which necessarily brought him into conflict with the military and naval interests.

    4
    3
  • She was met by a pharmacist who said his Catholic faith precluded his dispensing the pill.

    1
    0
    Advertisement
  • Betsy's California schedule coupled with the time difference precluded us from conducting any midweek session.

    0
    0
  • Participation was precluded on certain grounds.

    0
    0
  • It will be precluded by law or the principal of "greater good" will be maintained at all times.

    0
    0
  • Calculators Calculators may be used, except where specifically precluded by the rubric of the exam paper.

    0
    0
  • Contact dermatitis precluded the use of transdermal scopolamine in 3 (4.4 %) subjects.

    0
    0
    Advertisement
  • Crispi adopted the measures necessary to ensure the tranquil accession of King Humbert with a quick energy which precluded any Radical or Republican demonstrations.

    0
    0
  • On the fields of Marathon and Plataea, the Persian archers succumbed to the Greek phalarn of hoplites; but the actual decision was effected by Themistocles who had meanwhile created the Athenian fleet which at Salamis proved its superiority over the Perso-Phoenician armada, anc thus precluded beforehand the success of the land-forces.

    0
    0
  • Systematic differentiation of redaction from tradition is thus precluded.

    0
    0
  • The winter season precluded the front porch rocking chair conferences of last summer and since the past autumn the group's confabs had been replaced with side-of-the-bed meetings in the Deans' quarters.

    3
    3
  • The Austrians, under General Bellegarde, entered Milan without resistance; and this event precluded the restoration of the old political order.

    3
    3
    Advertisement
  • The resignation of the Gladstone-Granville cabinet further precluded the projected Italian occupation of Suakin, and the Italians, wisely refraining from an independent attempt to succour Kassala, then besieged by the Mahdists, bent their efforts to the increase of their zone of occupation around Massawa.

    4
    5
  • Again obstruction precluded debate, and on the 22nd of July 1899 the decree automatically acquired force of law, pending the adoption of a bill of indemnity by the Chamber.

    3
    3
  • Seeing clearly that his want of an efficient cavalry precluded all ideas of a resolute offensive in his old style, he determined to limit himself to a defence of the line of the Elbe, making only dashes of a few days' duration at any target the enemy might present.

    3
    3
  • This is a consequence of the false stability of portraiture, since in life the unceasing movement of light in the eyes, the mobility of the mouth, and the sympathy and sweetness which radiated from all the features, precluded the faintest notion of want of sincerity.

    3
    3
  • With the revolution which speedily followed this impolitic trial, new troubles encountered Ken; for, having sworn allegiance to James, he thought himself thereby precluded from taking the oath to William of Orange.

    3
    4
  • For the mapping of the whole vast interior, except in rare cases, no data exist beyond the itineraries of explorers, travelling as a rule under conditions which precluded the use of even the simplest surveying instruments.

    3
    3
  • It is matter for regret to the student that Adamson's active labours in the lecture room precluded him from systematic production.

    3
    3
  • However, both the recovery of the compilers' aims and attempted reconstructions are precluded from finality by the scantiness of independent historical evidence.

    3
    3
  • Elizabeth, who succeeded her sister Mary in 1558, was suspected to be Protestant in her leanings, and her adviser, Cecil, had received his training as secretary of the Protector Somerset; but the general European situation as well as the young queen's own temperament precluded any abrupt or ostentatious change in religious matters.

    3
    3
  • The Civil War caused enormous losses to the merchant marine, and the worldwide substitution about this time of iron steamers for wooden steamers and sailing vessels contributed to prevent a recovery; because, although ship-building was one of the earliest arts developed in the colonies, and one that was prosecuted with the highest success so long as wooden ships were the dominant type, the United States has never achieved marked success with the iron steamer, and the law has precluded the registry as American of vessels built abroad.

    3
    3
  • The root, though not precluded from access of air, is not directly dependent for its growth on the agency of light.

    4
    4
  • The approach of the south-west monsoon precluded the immediate renewal of the attempt; but hostilities were resumed, and Achin fell in January 1874.

    4
    4