entailment
Example Sentences
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But here, besides the discrepancies in the entailment of services, there are enormous discrepancies in sentiment to start with, and policies still to be accepted and cemented, and European prejudices to be suppressed or reconciled.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
Four States declared in their constitutions against the entailment of estates, and primogeniture was abolished in aristocratic Virginia.
From The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union by Farrand, Max
An Act of entailment can, it is true, be founded, but it is rarely permitted, being looked upon with disfavour for reasons of political economy.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
But there are patent reasons within the sphere of philosophy itself for entailment of activity and taking of stock.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
The emancipated Negro struggles up to-day against many obstacles, the entailment of a brutal slavery.
From The Negro Problem by Fortune, Timothy Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
