Condition

National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.

The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.

Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.

Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.

Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.

Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.

A man of his condition has no place to make requests.

[T]his Zeal was now inflamed by Lady Bellaſton, who had told her the preceding Evening, that ſhe was well ſatiſfied from the Conduct of Sophia, and from her Carriage to his Lordſhip, that all Delays would be dangerous, and that the only Way to ſucceed, was to preſs the Match forward with ſuch Rapidity, that the young Lady ſhould have no Time to reflect, and be obliged to conſent while ſhe ſcarce knew what ſhe did. In which Manner, ſhe ſaid, one half of the Marriages among People of Condition were brought about.

My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.

If the visual attention sequence of children with autism and TD children varied depending on the condition, we could argue that the inclusion of objects in the environment influences the visual attention patterns of both groups.

Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.

What other planets might have the right conditions for life?

The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.

I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.

Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.

They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.

The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.

Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.

[P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.

[I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning (for his owne life), by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne performed in his firſt borne, it is fained that Saturne deuoured his owne children.

divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed

to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study

"To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.