opportuneness

Example Sentences

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Hence everything now depends on the opportuneness of the demands of the women.

From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe

Whilst we have pointed out the opportuneness of the Proclamation, it remains to be said that the President had no choice.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

I also in December made a speech in a naval debate which was as successful as my Zulu speech—with as little reason, except its opportuneness.'

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

This was decidedly Lindsay's own view though it was clearly understood that the opportuneness of the motion lay in ministerial desire for and need of support in its Danish policy.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass

We will first take the vote on the question of opportuneness, and a mere majority may very well decide that.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von