263 examples of waiving in sentences

Waiving for the present all mention of the opposite picture; these things are alike honourable to both rich and poor.

Waiving his great loss as nothing, and magnificently sinking the sense of fallen material grandeur in the more liberal resentment of depreciations done to his more lofty intellectual pretensions, "Have you heard" (his customary exordium)"have you heard," said he, "how they treat me?

Sanitation, sewerage, good water supply, and schoolhouses and paved streets are not the result of throwing confetti, tooting tin horns and waiving the curfew law.

In theology we are waiving distinctions and devoting ourselves to the divine spirit only as it manifests itself in humanitywe are talking less and less about another world and taking more notice of the one we inhabit.

Waiving the point, whether it is right or wrong to make men bishops because they have been political partizans, the cause of this alleged injustice may be found in the tone of the times, which was eminently tinctured with cant.

But it was a magnanimous godship; and, after a moment's leaning back with closed eyes, to draw in all the sweet incense, how nobly would he act, in imaginative vignette, the King Cophetua to this poor suppliant of love; with what a generous waiving of his powerand with what a grace!did he see himself raising her from her knees, and seating her at his right hand.

Halting for a few moments, and waiving introduction, we exchanged a few words.

2. Waiving for the present the question of constitutional power, what effect will this bill have on the relations established between the Federal and State Governments?

His shirt front was as glossy as his baldness, and in his buttonhole he wore the red ribbon bestowed on him for waiving his claim to a Velasquez that was wanted for the Louvre.

Mrs. Thoresby, of course, had been introduced to the General; Mrs. Thoresby, with her bright, full, gray curls and her handsome figure, stood holding him in conversation between introductions, graciously waiving her privilege as new comers claimed their modest word.

If he chose to be merciful he could go to the praetor, and get what was called a missio in bona, i.e. a legal right to take the whole of his debtor's property, waiving the right to his person.

Waiving all other objections, this plan seems to me mere playing at politics, and an entire waste of effort.

But, waiving this, I deny that the abolition of slavery in the District would violate this clause.

Waiving all other objections, this plan seems to me mere playing at politics, and an entire waste of effort.

Now, if you'd like to sign a letter waiving any claim against us for protection, that would remove any obstacle to your going.

That pliancy of temper, which is wont to make itself known by the waiving a point or renouncing a principle for others' advantage, in him has no place; he either knows it not, or else considers it a poor, mean-spirited, creeping baseness, altogether unworthy of his imitation, and best befitted with ineffable contempt.

The humaner usage of modern times favors the waiving of these strict rights, but allows,without question, the seizure and confiscation of all such goods as are immediately auxiliary to military purposes.

What then remains, but, waiving each extreme, The tides of ignorance and pride to stem? Neither so rich a treasure to forego; Nor proudly seek beyond our power to know: 430 Faith is not built on disquisitions vain; The things we must believe are few and plain:

But waiving the lawyer's distinction between dictum and decision, the Court have decided the question for you in a sort of way.

But, waiving all these disadvantages, the only point on which there is the least probability that an appeal of a Chinese brother would come up before the higher courts, are points on which these higher courts would not be qualified to decide.

Waiving, then, for the present, the question whether miracles were actually wrought, we may state a fact which is fully capable of being established by ordinary evidence, and which is actually established by evidence as ample as any historical fact whateverthe fact, namely, that Christ professed to work miracles.

he!" There was some other talk, in a voice too low for Albert to hear, though he listened with both ears, waiving all sense of delicacy about eavesdropping in his anger and his desire to rescue Katy.

The romance was, of course, highly topical in Spain, but, waiving the rather debatable point of Sidney's allusive intentions, it never appears to have been generally so regarded in this country.

"Dat me w'at pass in rue Royale ev'y mawnin' holl'in' ' calas touts chauds,' an' singin'; don't you know?" The enthusiasm of an artist overcame any timidity she might have been supposed to possess, and, waiving the formality of an invitation, she began, to Frowenfeld's consternation, to sing, in a loud, nasal voice.

Waiving it with the lazy amiability of Southern indifference, she welcomed him by the familiarity of a Christian name.

263 examples of  waiving  in sentences