Unquestioned Sentence Examples

Napier's priority in the publication of the logarithms is unquestioned and only one other contemporary mathematician seems to have conceived the idea on which they depend.

By this means she detected in 1783 three remarkable nebulae, and during the eleven years 1786-1797 eight comets, five of them with unquestioned priority.

Domitian's succession (on the 13th of September 81) was unquestioned, and it would seem that he had intended, so far as his weak volition and mean abilities would allow, to govern well.

This unquestioned supremacy was not yielded, however, at the very beginning of the period.

The judgments predicted by the pre-exilic prophets had indeed been executed to the letter, but where were the promised glories of the renewed kingdom and Israel's unquestioned sovereignty over the nations of the earth ?

When hydraulic pressure to the amount of 2000 to 3000 lb per square inch is applied, the saving is unquestioned, since less time is required to dry the pressed retort, its life in the furnaces is longer, its absorption of zinc is less, and the loss of zinc by passage through its walls in the form of vapour is reduced.

He remained throughout unflinchingly loyal to the British Raj, and by his vast and unquestioned influence among the frontier tribes on the northern borders of India he exercised a control over their unruly passions in times of trouble, which proved of invaluable service in the several expeditions led by British arms on the north-west frontier of India.

It is not, therefore, surprising that when Pausanias was recalled to Sparta on the charge of treasonable overtures to the Persians, the Ionian allies appealed to the Athenians on the grounds of kinship and urgent necessity, and that when Sparta sent out Dorcis to supersede Pausanias he found Aristides in unquestioned command of the allied fleet.

The most remarkable chapters, in which St Benedict's wisdom stands out most conspicuously, are those on the abbot (2, 3, 2 7, 64) The abbot is to govern the monastery with full and unquestioned patriarchal authority; on important matters he must consult the whole community and hear what each one, even the youngest, thinks; on matters of less weight he should consult a few of the elder monks; but in either case the decision rests entirely with him, and all are to acquiesce.

The Russian commander-in-chief states in his work on the war that Bilderling became engaged a fond instead of gradually withdrawing as Kuropatkin intended, and at any rate it is unquestioned that in consequence of the serious position of affairs on the western wing, not only did Stakelberg use his reserves to support Bilderling, when the 12th division of Kuroki's army was almost at its last gasp and must have yielded to fresh pressure, but Kuropatkin himself suspended the general offensive on the 13th of October.

His fervent faith in the doctrines of Islam was unquestioned, and his ultimate failure was due in considerable measure to the refusal of the Kabyles, Berber mountain tribes whose Mahommedanism is somewhat loosely held, to make common cause with the Arabs against the French.

The belligerent has an unquestioned right to " interfere " with all neutral vessels navigating in the direction of the seat of war, for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are carrying any kind of contraband or not.

But he feels that the language is un-Pauline, though the "admirable" thoughts are not second to those of Paul's unquestioned writings.

So far as the religious side of the festival was concerned, the Eleans had an unquestioned supremacy.

Such indeed was his unquestioned position when suddenly he was overthrown and his worship proscribed.

Alfred's care for the administration of justice is testified both by history and legend; and the title " protector of the poor " was his by unquestioned right.

When two thinkers of such eminence (probably the two greatest ethical thinkers of antiquity) have arrived independently at this strange"--conclusion, have agreed in ascribing to cravings, felt in this life, so great, and to us so inconceivable, a power over the future life, we may well hesitate before we condemn the idea as intrinsically absurd, and we may take note of the important fact that, given similar conditions, similar stages in the development of religious belief, men's thoughts, even in spite of the most unquestioned individual originality, tend though they may never produce exactly the same results, to work in similar ways.

His patriotism was indeed unquestioned, and he withdrew from the Allied Army in 1814 when he found that he could not prevent the violation of Swiss neutrality.

It has for a long time exercised almost unquestioned authority over Swedish thought, religious and philosophical.

He was a successful leader in guerilla warfare, alert and quick, yet cautious - a man, moreover, whose personal bravery was unquestioned.

His literary dictatorship was unquestioned.

Lipsius had been reconciled to the Church of Rome; Casaubon was supposed to be wavering; but Scaliger was known to be hopeless, and as long as his supremacy was unquestioned the Protestants had the victory in learning and scholarship. A determined attempt must be made, if not to answer his criticisms, or to disprove his statements, yet to attack him as a man, and to destroy his reputation.

But irreverences of this kind, as well as the frequent burlesque citations of the Bible, whether commendable or not, had been, were, have since been, and are common in writers whose orthodoxy is unquestioned; and it must be remembered that the later Middle Age, which in many respects Rabelais represents almost more than he does the Renaissance, was, with all its unquestioning faith, singularly reckless and, to our fancy, irreverent in its use of the sacred words and images, which were to it the most familiar of all images and words.

The Church influence with all classes is practically supreme and unquestioned, and it still exercises complete control in matters of education.

The reign of the Tories was unquestioned, Yet it was not quite what the reign of the Cavaliers had been in 1660.

But so soon as men perceive upon reflection an apparent discrepancy between the utterances of their moral consciousness and certain conclusions to which theological speculation (or at a later period metaphysical and scientific inquiries) seems inevitably to lead them, they will not rest satisfied until the belief in the will's freedom (hitherto unquestioned) is upon further reflection justified or condemned.

Hence Hobbes's ideal constitution naturally comes to be an unquestioned and unlimited - though not necessarily monarchical - despotism.

The right of the state to fix " reasonable " rates remained unquestioned, but American experience has not found such laws efficacious.

The largely unquestioned ' Users get what we give them ' attitude was being transformed into the ' What do users want?

The view that religion is a private matter without political implications is one of the almost unquestioned assumptions of modern British culture.

Note, however, how effectively a close shave on a zebra crossing brings to the surface previously unquestioned strategic calculations.

Can we therefore assume that the ideals of the French Revolution were still unquestioned?

Yet workers with old boys ' connections remained unquestioned.

We use these images to help us make sense of the world and they normally go unquestioned.

It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services, and the international MEDIA.

It is common for voice teachers to adopt such a role, and for this to pass unquestioned by either teacher or pupil.

The categorizing of all human beings as ' male ' or ' female ' is left unquestioned.

Ecclesiastes) whose traditional antiquity is left unquestioned by him are in reality of far more recent origin; (c) to eliminate the earlier sources or elements in the writings which Hobbes was content to date mainly or as a whole by their latest elements (e.g.

It goes unquestioned by the authorities who make money from the suffering it causes.

The unquestioned assumption is that thai by jury is superior to trial by a judge or panel of judges.

All who know Mrs. O'Hare know her to be a woman of unquestioned integrity.

His third incentive is his desire to become the unquestioned leader of the Arab world.

In each and every field he believes himself to be an unquestioned authority.

First was the unquestioned belief that the state does not act as a terrorist, does not kill without reason or justification.

Perhaps the only one who has been an unquestioned success at both is George Gershwin.

Cats tend to purr when they are in a relaxed environment where their security remains unquestioned.

The authenticity of the book was unquestioned thenceforward till the Reformation, when the view of Jerome was revived by Erasmus, Carlstadt, Luther and others under various forms. In the Lutheran Church this opposition lasted into the next century, but in the Reformed it gave way much earlier.