Sentence examples for eminent degree from inspiring English sources

That would be fine if the electoral college itself did what Alexander Hamilton wanted: ensure that the presidency would "never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".

This is because "[d]ecision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch will generally characterise the proceedings of one man, in a much more eminent degree, than the proceedings of any greater number".

The so-called Hamilton electors cite the founding father's words in Federalist 68, in which he describes the purpose of the electoral college to "afford a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".

They cite the statement by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers: "The process of the Electoral College affords a moral certainty, that the office of the President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications".

Fidelity, prudence, decision, and vigilance were absolutely needed, and these he possessed in an eminent degree.

In fact, kindness is so necessary for them that they cannot be admirable without possessing it in an eminent degree" [CN, p.233].

"It would be deeply perturbing to find that a paper as eminent as the Times could allow a small NGO, particularly one whose sources of financing are unknown, a high degree of influence," says the letter to Witherow.

It is historically a more recent development than and differs in motive and degree from "expropriation" or "eminent domain," which is the right of government to take property for particular public purposes (such as the construction of roads, reservoirs, or hospitals), normally accompanied by the payment of compensation.

The internationally renowned Collège de France (founded 1530) is a research institution that offers lectures by eminent scholars; it does not grant degrees or certificates.

At school he was a moderate student at best, but then a little-suspected academic ability emerged as he won scholarships to two eminent southern law schools, taking his law degree from Vanderbilt in Nashville in 1967.

He had a law degree, so he knew that eminent domain was the lever he needed, and he believed that city governments were best suited to deploy it: "Not only because underwater mortgages aren't a problem everywhere but because the federal government is dysfunctional".