Pronounce Sentence Examples

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  • The authority of the church or minister to pronounce absolution is based on John xx.

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  • Only because you can't pronounce the words?

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  • From it followed the right of the courts Christian to pronounce upon questions of legitimacy.

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  • For no system of marks in a lexicon can tell one how to pronounce a word.

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  • On this account, the custom of both the French and English people of the country was for years before and for several years after 1870 to pronounce it Man-I-CO-ba, and even in some cases to spell it " Manitobah."

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  • On the death of Mary queen of Scots he was chosen to pronounce her eulogy.

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  • In the next generation they dexterously forced the venerable records of the early republic to pronounce in favour of the ascendancy of the senate, as established by Sulla.

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  • It was considered an act of blasphemy for a layman to pronounce the Tetragrammaton.

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  • They were feared, too, as ministers of the taboo and were entitled to pronounce a kind of excommunication for offences against its rules.

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  • The Jews quite early ceased to pronounce the Tetragrammaton, substituting (as the Books of Chronicles and the LXX translation already indicate) the word Lord ('Adonai).

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  • Speaking generally, however, we must pronounce him unprogressive, since, on the whole, unreflective in regard to his ends.

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  • At first this seemed not improbable; French armies marched south on Naples, and the pope sent Campeggio with full powers to pronounce the divorce in England.

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  • If the statement in the life of Terence by Suetonius is correct and the reading sound, Caecilius's judgment was so esteemed that he was ordered to hear Terence's Andria (exhibited 166 B.C.) read and to pronounce an opinion upon it.

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  • The same mouth can pronounce a blessing or a curse.

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  • In the Lutheran church also the practice of private confession survived the Reformation, together with both the exhibitive (I forgive, &c.) and declaratory (I declare and pronounce) forms of absolution.

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  • Even the ship-money Johnson would not pronounce to have been an unconstitutional impost.

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  • The occasional visitor to the tomb is reminded by its inscriptions of the many virtues of the dead man while he yet lived, and is charged, if he be come with empty hands, at least to pronounce the funerary formula; it will indeed cost him nothing but the breath of his mouth !

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  • It was not the custom to pronounce absolution until after the penance assigned had been fulfilled.

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  • If, by the advice of the cardinals who have examined the documents, the pope pronounce his approval, the servant of God receives the title of "Venerable," but is not entitled to any manifestation of cultus.

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  • As perpetual secretary it fell to him to pronounce historical *loges on deceased members; and for this duty his rapidity and facility of thought, his happy piquancy of style, and his extensive knowledge peculiarly adapted him.

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  • To pronounce any absolute decision on these conflicting doctrines is foreign to our present purpose, which is to show that all of them count among their adherents men of high rank in science.

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  • With Sciarra Colonna, Nogaret surprised Boniface at Anagni, on the 7th of September 1303, as the latter was about to pronounce the sentence of excommunication against the king.

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  • The old justiciar Geoffrey Fitz-Peter, now on his death-bed, had also refused to pronounce sentence on the defaulters.

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  • In order to preserve popular favor and their direction of the Republic, the Girondins had not dared to pronounce against the sentence of death, but had demanded an appeal to the people which was rejected; morally weakened by this equivocal attitude they were still more so by foreign events.

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  • Boris Pasternak 's the military before they pronounce soviet citizens who.

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  • Instead, Glaswegians are just giving in to the natural tendency in language not to pronounce the final consonant.

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  • I don't care a fig about whether you pronounce in favor of this or that book, film or record.

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  • Remember to chant loud enough for your own ears to hear the mantra, and try to pronounce each syllable clearly.

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  • He also has a role in the upcoming film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

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  • Each snack bar has no more than eight ingredients, all of which you can not only pronounce, but visualize as a real food and not some mysterious chemical substance.

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  • Of course, it probably had a pedigree longer than her arm and a name she'd never be able to pronounce.

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  • Marsilius denies, not only to the pope, but to the bishops and clergy, any coercive jurisdiction or any right to pronounce on their own authority excommunications and interdicts, or in any way to impose the observation of the divine law.

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  • Expert naturalists accompanied the party, which did not emerge from the wilderness until the middle of the following March, bringing with it a collection which scientists pronounce of unusual value for students of natural history.

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  • Even the London street dogs, as Sydney Smith said, joined with O'Connell in barking" God save the Queen."Oxford seems to have been craving for notoriety; but it may be doubted whether the jury who tried him did right to pronounce his acquittal on the ground of insanity.

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  • A rule requiring the presence of six judges to pronounce a decision prevents the division of the court into two or more benches; and while this secures a thorough consideration of every case, it also retards the despatch of business.

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  • In other words, a critic may deliberately pronounce that what stands in the text represents what the author wrote or might well have written, that it is doubtful whether it does, that it certainly does not, or, in the last event, that it may be replaced with certainty by something that does.

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  • The man exists purely to pronounce on things, usually to unintentionally comic effect.

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  • He did not pronounce windy orations about things that did not concern or edify them.

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  • He was delighted that I could pronounce the words so well, and said that he had no difficulty in understanding me.

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  • Occasionally, especially with those new to wine, people may find it difficult to properly pronounce certain names and Pinot Noir happens to be one of those names.

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  • But in both works these utterances are qualified in such a manner as to enable us to perceive the real bearings of his doctrine, and to pronounce at once that it differs widely from that commonly ascribed to him.

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  • The book contains much which attracted and also much which repelled Jewish feeling, and it appears that it was necessary to pronounce against its canonicity.

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  • The investigations will then naturally divide themselves into three parts, the first of which deals with those to our mind inevitable forms in which we are obliged to think about things, if we think at all (metaphysics), the second being devoted to the great region of facts, trying to apply the results of metaphysics to these, specially the two great regions of external and mental phenomena (cosmology and psychology), the third dealing with those standards of value from which we pronounce our aesthetical or ethical approval or disapproval.

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  • When Christian scholars began to study the Old Testament in Hebrew, if they were ignorant of this general rule or regarded the substitution as a piece of Jewish superstition, reading what actually stood in the text, they would inevitably pronounce the name Jehovah.

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  • The only words she had learned to pronounce with any degree of distinctness previous to March, 1890, were PAPA, MAMMA, BABY, SISTER.

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  • Other films that became fan favorites despite being panned by critics include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

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  • Finally, you should be able to pronounce every word on the ingredients list.

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  • These natural fragrances are made of a few simple ingredients rather than multiple ingredients with difficult to pronounce names.

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  • A lisp is a functional speech disorder that involves the inability to correctly pronounce one or more sibilant consonant sounds, usually s or z.

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  • Lisping is a speech disorder characterized by the inability to correctly pronounce the sounds of s or z, known as the sibilant consonants.

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  • A computerized voice will pronounce one of the words.

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  • It is also easier to select poems with language that is easy to pronounce and recognize than using complex sonnets or poems that use Old English.

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  • Use words that are easy to understand, pronounce and memorize.

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  • Clearly there will be some French words that are easier to pronounce than others.

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  • In order to learn and practice the nasal sound, pinch the nose together with thumb and forefinger and pronounce the word.

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  • These words are so close to being English cognates that they are easy to pronounce.

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  • The first lesson starts with learning to pronounce all of the letters of the alphabet.

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  • The clergy having thus another authority, and one moreover more canonical, to appeal to, the power of the archdeacons gradually declined; and, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, it received its death-blow from the council of Trent (1564), which withdrew all matrimonial and criminal causes from the competence of the archdeacons, forbade them to pronounce excommunications, and allowed them only to hold visitations in connexion with those of the bishop and with his consent.

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  • P. Postgate, How to pronounce Latin (Appendix B, on " Recent Progress "), (1907).

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  • In the last name it has been plausibly suggested that we have the Pukhtun, as the eastern Afghans pronounce their name.

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  • It is, indeed, singularly difficult to pronounce a judicious opinion on the writings of Donne.

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  • Deacons may conduct any of the ordinary services in the church, but are not permitted to pronounce the absolution or consecrate the elements for the Eucharist.

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  • In the 17th century the characteristics which so clearly mark off Deuteronomy from the other four books of the Pentateuch were frankly recognized, but the most advanced critics of that age were inclined to pronounce it the earliest and most authentic of the five.

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  • Soon afterwards the questions connected with the deposition of Bishop Colenso were referred to him, but, while regarding Colenso's opinions as heretical and his deposition as justifiable, he refused to pronounce upon the legal difficulties of the case.

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  • It is not the business of the court to pronounce upon the absolute truth or falsehood of any given opinion, but simply to say whether it is formally consistent with the legal doctrines of the Church of England.

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  • No bird is more popular with natives than the mama (Acridotheres tristis), a member of the starling family, which lives contentedly in a cage, and can be taught to pronounce words, especially the name of the god Rama.

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  • Tso never challenges the text of the master as being incorrect, yet he does not warp or modify his own narratives to make them square with it; and the astounding fact is, that when we compare the events with the summary of them, we must pronounce the latter misleading in the extreme.

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  • Filelfo hereupon broke out into open and violent animosity; and when Cosimo was exiled by the Albizzi party in 1433, he urged the signoria of Florence to pronounce upon him the sentence of death.

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  • But before Pierre--who at that moment imagined himself to be Napoleon in person and to have just effected the dangerous crossing of the Straits of Dover and captured London--could pronounce Pitt's sentence, he saw a well-built and handsome young officer entering his room.

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  • The colonel respectfully informed His Majesty of Balashev's mission, whose name he could not pronounce.

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  • As an added bonus, these modern celebrity baby names are both easy to spell and pronounce.

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  • When choosing a baby name, it's a good idea to settle between common and rare for something unique but not impossible to pronounce.

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  • Impress your friends by imparting the 150-year history of Cointreau over drinks, and laugh at them when they pronounce it "coin-TRUE".

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  • I never buy a product containing a chemical name I can't pronounce or don't recognize.

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  • However, people in the rural Mississippi town found Orpah difficult to pronounce and the baby was frequently called "Oprah."

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  • She may have begun her life as a little girl with a hard to pronounce name, but it's a name that most people in the world today know.

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  • Stewart, however, has joked that he changed his name because it was too difficult to pronounce Leibowitz and that it "sounded too Hollywood."

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  • Her next role is opposite Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore in the thriller, Next, as well as the upcoming Adam Sandler film, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

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  • Speech and language therapists diagnose stuttering by asking stutterers to read out loud, pronounce specific words, and talk.

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  • Phonics - children learn how to pronounce or decode more difficult words in each successive year of school.

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  • Locals, who have a vested interested in the CBS serial, will tell you that the show's sizzling vixens and hunky villains don't even pronounce their hometown the same.

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  • For example, an entire section is dedicated to helping the user pronounce French (complete with little tips and tricks) like a pro.

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  • Learning French always begins with some simple French phrases and an attempt to pronounce them in a somewhat French-like manner.

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  • It was then I discovered his name was Qui-Gon Jinn, although I wasn't entirely sure how to pronounce it until I saw the movie.

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  • If you're using the name in a story, if it is too difficult to pronounce, readers will just stumble over it, which breaks the flow.

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  • While most of them are different, they are also memorable, easy to read and easy to pronounce.

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  • In attempting to pronounce on the evidence with regard to Herschel's theory, we must at once admit that the transmutation of a nebula into a star has never been seen.

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  • He goes so far as to pronounce the latter to be Cretan importations, their fabric and forms being unlike anything Nilotic. If that be so, the period at which stone implements were beginning to be superseded by bronze in Crete must be dated before 4000 B.C. But it will be remembered that below all Evans's "Minoan" strata lies the immensely thick Neolithic deposit.

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  • Other encyclicals, such as those on Christian marriage (Arcanum divinae sapientiae, 10th February 1880), on the Rosary (Supremi apostolatus oficii, 1st September 1883, and Superiore anno, 5th September 1898), and on Freemasonry (Humanism genus, 20th April 1884), dealt with subjects on which his predecessor had been accustomed to pronounce allocutions, and were on similar lines.

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  • When we consider its moral effects, whilst endeavouring to avoid exaggeration, we must yet pronounce its influence to have been profoundly detrimental.

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  • Augustus, however, was now seventytwo, the Dalmatian outbreak had severely tried his nerve, and now for the second time in three years the fates seemed to pronounce clearly against a further prosecution of his long-cherished scheme of a Roman Germany reaching to the Elbe.

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  • The pope immediately summoned Henry to appear at Rome in order to justify his private misconduct, and Henry replied by causing the partisan synod of Worms (1076) to pronounce Gregory's deposition.

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  • La Bruyere dares not pronounce against such beliefs, "for there are perplexing facts affirmed by grave men who were eye-witnesses."

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  • On the appointed day a number of representatives appeared, and after some elaborate and fantastic ceremonials Rienzi, as dictator, issued an edict citing the emperor Louis the Bavarian and his rival Charles, afterwards the emperor Charles IV., and also the imperial electors and all others concerned in the dispute, to appear before him in order that he might pronounce judgment in the case.

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  • From the first she was not content to be drilled in single sounds, but was impatient to pronounce words and sentences.

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  • I knew that Laura Bridgman had shown the same intuitive desire to produce sounds, and had even learned to pronounce a few simple words, which she took great delight in using, and I did not doubt that Helen could accomplish as much as this.

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  • Pronouncing these numbers is not difficult either once you understand the basics, always remembering to pronounce lightly and using the nasal inflection when necessary.

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  • The accent should go on the second syllable, and the first syllable can be very difficult to pronounce because of the 'r'.

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  • It would, I think, be hard to make her feel just how to pronounce DICTIONARY without her erring either toward DICTIONAYRY or DICTION'RY, and, of course the word is neither one nor the other.

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  • Hard consonants were, and indeed still are, very difficult for her to pronounce in connection with one another in the same word; she often suppresses the one and changes the other, and sometimes she replaces both by an analogous sound with soft aspiration.

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