Present-system Sentence Examples

The Civil War, however, interrupted the early progress, and the present system of common schools dates from the constitution of 1868 and the school law of 1869.

In 1899 more than three-fourths of the inhabitants ten years of age or over were unable to read or write, and when in the following year the present system of government was established large powers were given to the commissioner of education.

An agitation begun soon after the War of Independence resulted in the creation of a school fund in 1831 and the final establishment of the present system of public schools in 1834.

The Mongol Khoshotes in 1706 and the Sungars in 1717 interfered again in the succession of the Dalai lama, but the Chinese army finally conquered the country in 1720, and the present system of government was established.

He nevertheless found time to organize the meteorological service in France and to promote the present system of international weather-warnings.

The present system merely leads to the transmission of the sterile art of passing examinations.

The present system dates from 1854, being based upon a comprehensive despatch sent out by Sir C. Wood (afterwards Lord Halifax) in that year.

Under the present system the industrial chief exploits the proletariat, the members of which, though nominally free, must accept his terms under pain of starvation.

There are inherent flaws in the present system of county taxes.

The present system places a cost on universities which they can ill afford.

It can only temporarily alleviate some of the grosser evils of the present system.

The QCA has become too ardent a defender of every aspect of the present system.

Thus, the present system remains intact and there is unlikely to be a flood of claims for wrongful conviction or unlawful detention.

In his opinion the UK Government's means-tested benefits provided an appropriate solution to the inherent flaws in the present system of Council Tax.

Mr. Doyle remained insistent in his belief that no children should be sent to Canada under Miss Rye's present system of emigration.

This analysis highlights the trade-offs involved in various strategies available for restructuring the present system.

It acquiesced in the loss of western lands through a decision (1782) of a court appointed by the Confederation (see Wyoming Valley); favoured the levy of taxes on imports by federal authority; relinquished (1786) its claims to all western lands, except the Western Reserve (see Ox10); and in the constitutional convention of 1787 the present system of national representation in Congress was proposed by the Connecticut delegates as a compromise between the plans presented by Virginia and New Jersey.

The treatment of amounts already ' set-aside ' under the present system will be specified in regulations made under section 21.