1520 examples of pro in sentences

"ALCOHOL.Chymicis est liquor aut pulvis summé subtilisatus, vocabulo Orientalibus quoque, cum primis Habessinis, familiari, quibus cohol speciatim pulverem impalpabilem ex antimonio pro oculis tingendis denotat ... Hodie autem, ob analogiam, quivis pulvis tenerior ut pulvis oculorum cancri summé subtilisatus alcohol audit, haud aliter ac spiritus rectificatissimi alcolisati dicuntur.

Peri around, about periscope, peristyle *Pro before proboscis, prophet *

The chances pro and con gave a zest to conversations else intolerably dull.

The things they said against the Jews turned me pro-Zionist.

About 75 per cent of the British are as pro-Arab as they dare be, but the rest are strong for the Zionists.

In spite of everything, the T'ang government clique was very pro-Turkish, and many Turks and members of Toba families had government posts and, above all, important military commands.

Quid pro quo, 304.

Accordingly a great part of the charters granted for the manumission or freedom of slaves about that time, are granted pro amore Dei, for the love of God, pro mercede animae, to obtain mercy to the soul.

Accordingly a great part of the charters granted for the manumission or freedom of slaves about that time, are granted pro amore Dei, for the love of God, pro mercede animae, to obtain mercy to the soul.

The enforcement of these laws was called for by citizen after citizen in the public press, as demanded by "every principle of justice, humanity, policy and interest," and particularly on the ground that if the border states were drained of slaves they would be transferred from the pro-slavery to the anti-slavery group in politics.

He did really believe that he was being Pro-Catholic in being Pro-Austrian.

He did really believe that he was being Pro-Catholic in being Pro-Austrian.

But the Kaiser cannot be Pro-Catholic, and therefore cannot have been really Pro-Austrian, he was simply and solely Anti-Servian.

But the Kaiser cannot be Pro-Catholic, and therefore cannot have been really Pro-Austrian, he was simply and solely Anti-Servian.

for pro tempore;Ult.

all pro | -viding, warm'd thy | faithful | prophet's | tongue; Who, the | lot of | all de | -ciding, to thy | chosen | Israel | sung: 4. 'When thine | harvest | yields thee | pleasure, thou the | golden | sheaf shalt | bind; To the | poor be | -longs the | treasure of the | scatter'd | ears be | -hind.'

"Powers ce | -lestial, | whose pro | -tection Ever | guards the | virtuous | fair, While in | distant | climes I | wander, Let my |

O pro | -tect her, When in | distant | lands I | roam; To realms | unknown | while fate | exiles me, Make her | bosom | still my | home.

He nor | heaps his | brooded | stores, Nor the | whole pro | -fusely | pours; Lord of | every | regal | art, Liberal | hand and | open | heart.

This is an old rule, which seems to have been very much forgotten by modern authors; though doubtless it is as true, and as worthy to be perpetuated, as that which supposes the nominative to govern the verb: "Omne verbum personale finiti modi regit ante se expresse vel subaudite ejusdem numeri et personæ nominativum vel aliquid pro nominativo: ut, ego scribo, tu legis, ille auscultat.

With this conjecture of the learned etymologist, I do not concur: it is hardly worth while to state here, what may he urged pro and con.

Having offset himself, Wells as ingeniously balances his authorities, pro and con; but, the elliptical examples being allowable, he should not have said that I and others "condemn this usage altogether.

I shall want to ask, And burn to know if this one bets on races, Or that one has a pretty taste in braces, Or if a third, who only says, "Just so," Beneath his tunic has a heart aglow With treasured words of praise dropped by his golfing pro.

His policy was to go loyally to the assistance of Servia, as required by the treaty between the two countries; to defend New Greece against Bulgaria, to whom, however, he was ready to make some concessions on the basis of a quid pro quo; and to join and co-operate actively with the Entente Powers on the assurance of receiving territorial compensation in Asia Minor.

Among them were two who had been Great Men, Managers signing per and pro, Heads of Departments, almost Tin Gods, and one of them, alas, was at the mercy of a mere boy whom he had detested and frequently "squashed" in the happy days of yore.

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