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"Reclamatory" in a Sentence (15 examples)
This was a case of artificial reclamatory work done by the individual owners of the land beyond the foreshore, and the judgment of the Chief Justice (Osborne , C.J.) of the Nov. 5. Supreme Court of Southern Nigeria was affirmed, […]
[…] imperceptible in the sense already described, becomes an addition to C the property of the adjoining land; the former has not this result, and the property of the original foreshore, thus suddenly altered by reclamatory work upon it, remains […]
The reclamatory works are also going on side by side.
[…] and creeks, have become important sources of state ownership of land in Lagos, not so much in themselves, as by reason of reclamatory works which have freed them from the reach of the water and so converted them into dry land.
Certain Women, of the most obvious castratory and reclamatory type, actually specialize in telling horrible and insulting anti-woman jokes, in the same way that […]
As to land reclamatory pieces, Smithson said that they involved 'a kind of dialectic between the ecologists and the industrialists'.
We have tried to honour the reclamatory spirit of these efforts in the title of this collection. Myths of many kinds emerge in the plays and poems. Frequently the same myth appears in different guises. Given the Renaissance context, it may seem ...
Not that this is merely dismissive; since 1968 some of the most exciting theatre work and much interesting reclamatory scholarship has come from these two approaches. All-female groups are vital, both as a reaction against male dominance […]
2. Evangelism; efforts to secure reclamatory conversions. 3. Missionary activities; at home and abroad.
With much that the author has to say we could very heartily agree, as, for example, the following, "religious education seeks to save the need for a reclamatory conversion, and in its stead to substitute a gradual and natural spiritual growth […]"
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For them conversion is a necessary step in coming to God. They must return to moral sanity and say, "I will arise and go to my Father." While religious education seeks to make reclamatory conversion unnecessary by preventing the estrangement from God, religious educators should always recognize the need of effort to reclaim and then to train those whom the processes of nurture have either hever had a chance to win, or have failed in their effort to win.
But if conversion and religious education both aim at the same kind of spiritual release, wherein do they fundamentally differ? […] If vital growth in spiritual life vacates the need for a reclamatory conversion, we shall certainly not regret it.
For example, a reclamatory question (calling for a repetition) does not sort well with B + A; […]
The same is true of a question calling for a repetition (a reclamatory question) : (25) Are you OK? - Eh? (What? Am I what?) - Are you OK ? - Oh, sure, fine.
Nevertheless, reclamatory questions do not constitute a counterexample to my proposal, but rather provide evidence to strengthen it. They neatly differ from other repetitive interrogatives in a significant way: they are manifestly used to elicit […]
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