Sentence examples for the commonalty from inspiring English sources

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the commonalty

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The common people; the commonality

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This design works — so well that despite the mad variety of visual styles in the book, one comes away with an appreciation for the commonalty of serious comics today.

In 1776 appeared his first work on reform in Parliament, entitled, Take Your Choice a second edition appearing in 1777 under the new title of The Legislative Rights of the Commonalty Vindicated.

When the commonalty ratified this law, and gave him power to select those of the knights whom he approved of, to be judges, he was invested with a sort of a kingly power, and the senate itself submitted to receive his advice in matters of difficulty; nor did he advise anything that might derogate from the honour of that body.

The environmentalist movement has always been a "communitarian" sort of thing, in other words a movement that values "integration" (into the community, "ecosystem", etc.) above "differentiation" (from the commonalty, orthodoxy, etc.).

In like fashion he dealt with the Euboeans12 of Sicily, making the same difference; the cause of his so doing to the people of both places was, that he held the commonalty to be an exceeding thankless crew to live withal.

After this stroke of good fortune, the Syracusan landowners (as they were called) being driven into banishment by the commonalty and their own slaves (Cyllyrians, as they were called), Gelon brought them back from the town of Casmena to Syracuse, and took possession of that city also; for the Syracusan commonalty delivered themselves and it to Gelon at his coming.

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Doing this helps us see the bigger picture; identifying the commonalties across the different contexts of men's violence against women can help us see its root causes.

The African-Diasporic Dialogues: Reconstructing Community, Identity and Memory" project investigated the commonalties and differences in two African-Diasporic communities on the island of Jamaica and in the United States.

The framework was designed to exploit the commonalties in the methodology between the numerous types of analysis, applied loads, constraints and equation solving algorithms so that duplication is minimized and software reuse is maximized when new capabilities are added to the software.

It almost seems that the differences are slight and the commonalties much greater.

And I--the truth is part of the reason that you're confused about the differences is because the differences probably matter less than the commonalties.

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