Sentence examples for commonwealth in which from inspiring English sources

He agreed to a plea deal with the Commonwealth in which he would spend fifteen years as a registered sex offender.

He was socially conservative and eager to give a new philosophical sanction to a hierarchical, if businesslike, commonwealth in which family authority was most important.

Debs also envisioned what he called a "cooperative commonwealth," in which people would share their work and community life in new ways they would discover for themselves.

Such was the basis for a pluralistic religious settlement in England under the Commonwealth in which parish churches were led by men of Presbyterian, Independent, Baptist, or other opinions.

Howard called for a "cooperative commonwealth" in which rises in property values would be shared by the community, open land would be communally held, and manufacturing and retail establishments would be clustered within a short distance of residences.

After the fourth in the series, Carry On Constable (1960), Rogers offered to create a "commonwealth", in which all the players would be paid a percentage of the profits.

His most significant work completed at this time was The Great Commonwealth (Datongshu), in which he envisaged a utopian world attainable through successive stages of human development, a world where the barriers of race, religion, state, class, sex, and family would be removed and where there would be an egalitarian, communal society under a universal government.

A prize for British and Commonwealth fiction in which the shortlist is dominated by writers who are essentially American may be seen to expose the poverty of home-written fiction, but also opens up to scrutiny the eccentric admission system of our prizegivings.

This figure is close to the one found in a recent survey on adults' views of care systems overall in five Commonwealth countries in which 23% of respondents in the UK reported that they were not (or not at all) confident in the NHS [ 4].

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

'(3) The proceeding shall be by motion, in the name of the commonwealth, on ten days' notice, and shall be instituted and prosecuted by the attorney for the commonwealth or corporation in which the proceeding is, or, if it be instituted by direction of the auditor of public accounts, in the circuit court of the city of Richmond.