Sentence example with the word 'counterpoise'

counterpoise

Last update: September 16, 2015


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Theological colleges were established at Sedan, Montauban and Saumur, and French theology became a counterpoise to the narrow Reformed scholastic of Switzerland and Holland.'   [Please select]

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* * * * * We have called witnesses on this point alone, and have more than counterpoised the evidence produced upon the opposite side.   [Please select]

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Thus, then, I have no doubt the king will use every effort to obtain the release of Lord Grey, in order that he may act as a counterpoise, in the Welsh marches, to the influence of Mortimer.   [Please select]

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Graydon Bansemer lounged there in blissful contemplation of a roseate fate, all the more enjoyable because his very ease was the counterpoise of doubt and uncertainty.   [Please select]

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They swing it to the right or the left by way of counterpoise when they lean over to the one side or the other; hence the constant switching which appears so causeless.   [Please select]

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The counterpoise of this independence was the short duration of his office, and the right, given to every man, of accusing each magistrate at the end of it.   [Please select]

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