Sentence examples for virgin state from inspiring English sources

"A virgin state should preserve the virgin character, and not go about suitoring for alliances," Franklin noted shortly after his arrival in France.

If your children don't merit individual letters, please do us the favor of ranking them from favorite to least favorite on the outside of the envelope, so we'll know which sibling merits receiving your missive in its virgin state.

This is like starting from scratch and rebuilding a nation from one that was a virgin state, but we've had good partners who have worked with us on this.

Charlotte had by this time poked inside the bag, assuming her usual privileges in regard to Stevick's boundaries, and pulled out a plastic-wrapped jumpsuit, identical, except for its virgin state, to those worn by the operatives, and by the captive below.

The bonded assemblies were fatigue tested either at virgin state or after thermo-oxidative ageing.

We compare their behavior in their virgin state and after conversion to their semi-metallic form by an acetylene treatment.

These show opposite polarities of I-V curves in their virgin states.

According to these criteria, both solutions resulted in superior responses regarding the ones registered in their virgin states.

The effectiveness of these retrofitting solutions mainly in terms of hysteretic response, dissipated energy, degradation of secant stiffness, displacement ductility and failure modes are compared to their virgin states.

Near Feijó, cultivated plots act as a buffer between the road and virgin land: in 2000 the state granted 4.5-hectare (11-acre) plots of degraded pasture along the roadside to family farmers.

The construction of tunnels in soft ground causes short and long term ground deformations resulting from the disturbance of the virgin stress state of the soil and the changing pore water conditions.