Sentence examples for body of persons from inspiring English sources

In Roman law a collegium was a body of persons associated for a common function.

Experience shows that this problem can be effectively tackled only by a disciplined body of persons, who are inspired by the same ideas and united in a common cause.

Claque, (French claquer: "to clap"), organized body of persons who, either for hire or from other motives, band together to applaud or deride a performance and thereby attempt to influence the audience.

A civil servant, therefore, is one of a body of persons who are directly employed in the administration of the internal affairs of the state and whose role and status are not political, ministerial, military, or constabulary.

The thinker who did the most to provide the term with its modern meaning was the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588 1679), who argued that in every true state some person or body of persons must have the ultimate and absolute authority to declare the law; to divide this authority, he held, was essentially to destroy the unity of the state.

'The Court finds that it is not true that at the time of the filing of his petition for naturalization respondent was not a disbeliever in or opposed to organized government or a member of or affiliated with any organization or body of persons teaching disbelief in or opposed to organized government.

The notions of body, of person and of many other matters essential to theology, cannot be adequately expressed in isolation from philosophical teaching.

Common sense tells us that the bodies of persons who lived and died before the dawn of the DDT era — that is, before about 1942 — contained no trace of DDT or any similar material.

ViCLAS collects extensive data on all homicides and attempted homicides, sexual assaults, missing persons, unidentified bodies of persons known or thought to be homicide victims, and nonparental abductions and attempted abductions.

The mummies of Stroma were something of a tourist attraction in the 18th century; the Welsh naturalist and traveller Thomas Pennant described the mummies as "entire and uncorrupted bodies of persons who had been dead sixty years.

To date there is no LRJT specifically designed to investigate the body schema of persons with shoulder pain.