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  • He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and the way it would be from now on.†   (source)
  • Brenda was there, trying her best with Jorge to facilitate who would go next, to prevent everyone from going at once in a stampede that would surely kill half of them.†   (source)
  • She wasn't a missionary dispensing new visions and stamping out the old; she was a facilitator who made possible the lives of absolute ordinariness that we ached for.†   (source)
  • These courses facilitate the transition to studying at the college level.†   (source)
  • You have eight minutes; and if anyone has a question for you afterward, Gavril will facilitate that.†   (source)
  • There was even a train system to facilitate transporting the miners from the Nut to the very center of the main town in District 2.†   (source)
  • Remember that choosing to stay on the ground is a choice to facilitate a relationship; to honor it.†   (source)
  • She introduced her co-facilitator, Therese Plair, who was light-skinned, had African features, and held a drum.†   (source)
  • The famous blink ascribed to Kennedy's steady nerves was, as in many such events throughout history, facilitated by his ability to see the other man's cards.†   (source)
  • He was the ultimate facilitator, but this emotional thing, with the two of us one-on-one, was new to him.†   (source)
  • His membership card opened doors and facilitated opportunities for the Vanger Corporation—and business was precisely what we did.†   (source)
  • A way to facilitate movement of service vehicles and such.†   (source)
  • If there is any way I can facilitate your taking this course—other than with district hinds—please let me know.†   (source)
  • And the same features that make these restaurants so convenient — their location near intersections and highway off-ramps, even their drive-through windows — facilitate a speedy getaway.†   (source)
  • His techniques were used to positively identify follow-on targets within 24-48 hours and facilitated an accelerated targeting cycle that resulted in the capture of 36 known anticoalition fighters in less than two months of combat operations.†   (source)
  • In the Netherlands, legalization has facilitated health checkups for women in the legal brothels, but there's no evidence that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or HIV has declined.†   (source)
  • The cannabis seemed to facilitate their hysterical giggles, but it was doing nothing for me.†   (source)
  • Rabbi Alan Flam, a university chaplain, head of Hillel (the student Jewish organization), and, for fourteen years, a facilitator of unit diversity meetings, welcomes the group as they settle into the lounge.†   (source)
  • Tilting on the wind and swinging her tail in the opposite direction to facilitate her turn, she wheeled around, studying the ground far below and all the small scurrying things that strove to hide from her hunter's eyes.†   (source)
  • Even though it facilitated things, he could not help feeling disappointed.†   (source)
  • The fact that Coros is well known and pays exorbitant bribes to facilitate his smuggling makes him an ideal candidate.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tummeler brought us here—I'm sure he can facilitate our entry.†   (source)
  • Relaxation facilitates learning and communication.†   (source)
  • You can facilitate this shift in global power and live as a part of the leadership you've all secretly wanted for so many years, or you can deny me and die with the rest.†   (source)
  • In order to facilitate recovery, the satellites were fitted with electronic beepers that began to transmit signals when they came down to an altitude of five miles.†   (source)
  • Having sympathetic warders facilitated one of our most vital tasks on Robben Island: communication.†   (source)
  • Operating out of a gleaming-white training room, Frenchy stocked every manner of weight-loss facilitator, including electric blankets, infrared lamps, electric light cabinets, baking machines, "violet-rays," vibrating contraptions, and rubber sleeping bags and sheets.†   (source)
  • And to facilitate such, may I ask if this hostel stocks potables?†   (source)
  • Tutsi government employees also used their positions and the resources of their posts to facilitate the killing of Hutu.†   (source)
  • On this hit, we were after a high-level weapons facilitator, just another link in the chain funding the insurgency.†   (source)
  • For all heading changes, they would have used the ailerons—hinged panels on the trailing edge of each wing—which facilitate gentle banking turns.†   (source)
  • "Croton seeds are used as a means to facilitate theft and other criminal intentions," he wrote in his biological notebooks.†   (source)
  • But otherwise, he does absolutely nothing to facilitate his escape.†   (source)
  • Your Honor, what we have here is an attempt to circumvent rather than facilitate Miss Cardinal's wishes.†   (source)
  • Lastly, it would facilitate and foster a bad practice that goes against all principles of good government.†   (source)
  • Any time that you are ready, deathgod, I will facilitate the passage of your spirit from out its fleshy envelope.†   (source)
  • The time has now come for our Government to facilitate the individual's control over his or her future — and of the future of America.†   (source)
  • The sulfur and salt are alchemical catalysts that facilitate transformation.†   (source)
  • Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.†   (source)
  • To facilitate the finding of one's place after a reasonable interruption?†   (source)
  • Right now it costs the government about ten dollars to facilitate every vote.†   (source)
  • What if every government service could be facilitated through our network?†   (source)
  • Your access to the shadows, in this case illusory shadows, facilitates bad behavior.†   (source)
  • You are not attending the event: you are facilitating it.†   (source)
  • Secrecy and speed are needed to facilitate attaining the objectives of the negotiation.†   (source)
  • He was eager to facilitate a meeting between me and the full group.†   (source)
  • The time was meant to renew old friendships among the cardinals and facilitate a less heated election process.†   (source)
  • Thermal imaging had been around for years, but recent advances in miniaturization, differential sensitivity, and dual-source integration had facilitated a new generation of vision enhancing equipment that gave field agents eyesight that bordered on superhuman.†   (source)
  • By donating the artwork anonymously to specific churches and then using their political influence, the brotherhood facilitated placement of these four pieces in carefully chosen churches in Rome.†   (source)
  • The resolution to replace facilitate with enable and ensure was adopted by a unanimous show of hands and a universal stomping of feet.†   (source)
  • The walls and work benches, covered with all manner of tools, were organized to easily facilitate the shop's activities.†   (source)
  • Then, just as the Count began to sense some risk of riot, a suggestion came from a shy-looking lad in the tenth row that perhaps to facilitate could be replaced with to enable and ensure.†   (source)
  • But in the concluding phrases of this impressive sentence, at the very culmination as it were, was the observation that through their tireless efforts, the Railway Workers of Russia "facilitate communication and trade across the provinces."†   (source)
  • These experiences were facilitated by generous humans who have shared what they saw with the world, my son included.†   (source)
  • So in a way, doing all this in darkness, unobserved and unaccountable, it facilitated impulses that you regret?†   (source)
  • Once he had the attention of the room, this back-office clerk or accountant, this All-Russian pusher of pencils, asserted in a voice as tepid and prim as the word facilitate: "Poetic concision demands the avoidance of a pair of words when a single word will suffice."†   (source)
  • It is said that in order to facilitate the drawing of a bow, the female's right breast was removed, either in early childhood or with a red-hot iron after she became an adult.†   (source)
  • I had made a call to facilitate a medical visit for Shay, to see if he was a match for Claire; and I had spent an hour on the phone with a UNOS coordinator, to confirm that if Shay gave up his heart, he could pick the recipient.†   (source)
  • With that portentous introduction, the students grow attentive as the rabbi and his student facilitator, Vida Garcia, a Hispanic third-year resident counselor from San Antonio, Texas, explain the first exercise: cultural pursuit.†   (source)
  • This will facilitate the movements of students, as well as allow for a greater degree of freedom in the planning of Spring term extracurricular schedules.†   (source)
  • "So Pollack," she said, "founded Infiniface to facilitate this quest, to track research worldwide with an eye toward projects with...well, with metaphysical aspects that the scientists themselves might not recognize.†   (source)
  • In that case I should say how grateful I am that you and your colleagues are willing to facilitate matters for me.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, this office would be pleased to work in conjunction with the commissioner of corrections to facilitate what needs to be done, as there are tissue matches and medical testing to be completed prior to the donation, and because time is of the essence during the organ harvest.†   (source)
  • A public that had grown up with news illustrations and hazy photo layouts was now treated to breathtaking action shots facilitated by vastly improved photographic equipment.†   (source)
  • By giving women an alternative way to pursue careers and earn incomes, as entrepreneurs, Injaz also facilitates the expansion of the labor force and economic development as a whole.†   (source)
  • Based in Arkansas, Tyson was one of the nation's leading chicken processors, and it soon developed a new breed of chicken to facilitate the production of McNuggets.†   (source)
  • Any knowledge you give me won't change the outcome of this chess match; it will only determine how many people must die to facilitate that outcome.†   (source)
  • Jordana and the high school students she works with are reminders that the rise of social entrepreneurship has also facilitated the rise of the part-time aid worker—even one sitting in a high school classroom.†   (source)
  • He believes many of the sciences, through research facilitated by new generations of superfast computers, are approaching discoveries that will bring us face-to-face with the reality of a Creator.†   (source)
  • This will facilitate the movements of students, as well as allow for a greater degree of freedom in the planning of Spring term extracurricular schedules.†   (source)
  • Andrew Mlangeni, the last accused, made an unsworn statement admitting that he carried messages and instructions for MK and had disguised himself as a priest to facilitate this work.†   (source)
  • Passing new laws to facilitate union organizing might not lead to picket lines in front of every McDonald's, but it would encourage the fast food industry to treat workers better and listen to their complaints.†   (source)
  • By 1700, however, a new, more open architecture was beginning to develop in northern Europe: entrepreneurial/competitive business facilitated by more tolerant, open politics.... One result: the West broke out from 1,200 years of stagnation and soon soared past anything the world had seen before.†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed as having a kidney infection, one that he believes was facilitated by residual tissue damage from the Shiga toxins.†   (source)
  • We knew that we would eventually suspend the armed struggle, in part to facilitate more serious negotiations and in part to allow Mr. de Klerk to go to his own constituency, the white voters of South Africa, and say, "Look, here are the fruits of my policy."†   (source)
  • Children in West German schools were required to study English, facilitating the spread of American pop culture.†   (source)
  • And the same meat industry practices that endanger these workers have facilitated the introduction of deadly pathogens, such as E. coli 0157:H7, into America's hamburger meat, a food aggressively marketed to children.†   (source)
  • Much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) responsible for causing AIDS, the E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium is a newly emerged pathogen whose spread has been facilitated by recent social and technological changes.†   (source)
  • The second means is the cards, cast by Dworkin, Master of the Line, who had created them in our image, to facilitate communications between members of the royal family.†   (source)
  • I told the facilitators I had to leave early, that I had this other meeting.†   (source)
  • Some other people were there, some facilitators, and we did these exercises.†   (source)
  • After the introductions, we sat in a circle so that the different facilitators could tell us about themselves.†   (source)
  • Most of the facilitators worked for NGOs, but there was a short white woman with long dark hair and bright eyes who said, "I am a storyteller."†   (source)
  • These were his facilitators.†   (source)
  • Vida and Rabbi Flam look at Cedric quizzically as the room grows quiet, the kids turning to their facilitators for guidance.†   (source)
  • The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump—by analogy.†   (source)
  • Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.†   (source)
  • This mode facilitated travel, but it frightened Helen.†   (source)
  • These quays, rising and falling with the tide, thus facilitate the loading and unloading of vessels.†   (source)
  • Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize.†   (source)
  • His plans were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris.†   (source)
  • I will facilitate it by repeating the question, 'Will you, or will you not, retract?'†   (source)
  • To facilitate the execution of good impulses, what can be a nobler act?†   (source)
  • Marmeladov submissively and obediently held up both arms to facilitate the search.†   (source)
  • We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to facilitate this tale.†   (source)
  • In order to facilitate the descent, Hans wound his way down the cone by a spiral path.†   (source)
  • But this same principle of equality which facilitates despotism, tempers its rigor.†   (source)
  • The absolute calm of the waves facilitated this operation.†   (source)
  • These facilitated climbing, and as he went up he thought how easily this vanished race of men might once have held that stronghold against an army.†   (source)
  • They were small barrels and I thought that Erik must have selected them of that size to facilitate their carriage to the house on the lake.†   (source)
  • The grafting of skin and bone is done to facilitate healing: the surgeon places in the middle of the wound pieces of skin snipped from another animal, or fragments of bone from a victim freshly killed.†   (source)
  • It was apparently Trenor himself who had been occupying the seat in question, for it was overhung by a cloud of cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and spirits.†   (source)
  • He followed the hunters with team and wagon, and through this hit by accident upon a method of skinning that greatly facilitated the work.†   (source)
  • If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely.†   (source)
  • On this night travel was facilitated by the fact that the trail was broad enough for two horses abreast, enabling Duane to ride while upholding Stevens in the saddle.†   (source)
  • It had turned out that musical accompaniment facilitated these exercises, and so on such evenings the gramophone would be confiscated by this magical fellowship and moved from its usual place.†   (source)
  • It was inevitable that Lily herself should constitute the first sacrifice to this new ideal, and she knew that, once the Gormers were established in town, the whole drift of fashionable life would facilitate Mattie's detachment from her.†   (source)
  • This was to facilitate camping operations and to be in readiness to split into three fighting groups.†   (source)
  • "The Duchess admires her immensely: I'm sure she'd be charmed to have it arranged," Lord Hubert agreed, with the professional promptness of the man accustomed to draw his profit from facilitating social contacts: Selden was struck by the businesslike change in his manner.†   (source)
  • He did so for a little time, but as he chose to renew his conversation when leaving the room, in a more offensive strain than before, I could not refrain from making after him, and facilitating his departure by a kick, which reduced him to the posture in which you saw him just now.†   (source)
  • First: In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was one of those who think that nature has theatrical properties and, with the considerate view of facilitating art and psychology, "makes up," her characters, so that there may be no mistake about them.†   (source)
  • Unencumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach, and, passing it and preceding it on the road, would order its horses in advance, and greatly facilitate its progress during the precious hours of the night, when delay was the most to be dreaded.†   (source)
  • The English and the Americans hold that tyranny and oppression are to be treated like any other crime, by lessening the penalty and facilitating conviction.†   (source)
  • Looming like a long reef, the Nautilus's hull disappeared little by little, but when night fell in the midst of the waters, the ship's beacon would surely facilitate our return on board, since its rays carried with perfect distinctness.†   (source)
  • As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of exactitude.†   (source)
  • Dorothea's inferences may seem large; but really life could never have gone on at any period but for this liberal allowance of conclusions, which has facilitated marriage under the difficulties of civilization.†   (source)
  • My aunt seemed disposed to contest the point; but to facilitate matters I said I would gladly remain behind, if they pleased; and returned into Mr. Wickfield's office, where I sat down again, in the chair I had first occupied, to await their return.†   (source)
  • The Susquehanna, a narrow though rapid stream at its source, was much filled with "flood wood," or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their passage.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bumble, having spread a handkerchief over his knees to prevent the crumbs from sullying the splendour of his shorts, began to eat and drink; varying these amusements, occasionally, by fetching a deep sigh; which, however, had no injurious effect upon his appetite, but, on the contrary, rather seemed to facilitate his operations in the tea and toast department.†   (source)
  • They facilitate the natural impulse of the mind to the highest regions of thought, and they naturally prepare it to conceive a sublime—nay, almost a divine—love of truth.†   (source)
  • Their progress was much facilitated by the certainty that Magua had found it necessary to journey through the valleys; a circumstance which rendered the general direction of the route sure.†   (source)
  • He began to circle round the cone of the crater, but in a diagonal direction so as to facilitate our progress.†   (source)
  • The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.†   (source)
  • Muir means to retire,—by the way, let the man have an equal chance with your daughter, for it may facilitate future operations about the promotion.†   (source)
  • She would have liked Leon to guess it, and she imagined chances, catastrophes that should facilitate this.†   (source)
  • They were well pleased to find they had a friend within the place, who might, in the moment of need, be able to facilitate their entrance, and readily agreed with the Saxon that a storm, under whatever disadvantages, ought to be attempted, as the only means of liberating the prisoners now in the hands of the cruel Front-de-Boeuf.†   (source)
  • I told them I had watched her character, and I felt sure she would not betray me; that I was determined to have an interview, and if they would not facilitate it, I would take my own way to obtain it.†   (source)
  • It was a politic course of proceeding, and one which could not fail to redound to his advantage in every point of view, since the very circumstance of his having extorted from Ralph Nickleby his real design in introducing his niece to such society, coupled with his extreme disinterestedness in communicating it so freely to his friend, could not but advance his interests in that quarter, and greatly facilitate the passage of coin (pretty frequent and speedy already) from the pockets of Lord Frederick Verisopht to those of Sir Mulberry Hawk.†   (source)
  • This was indeed the case; but as it was not Mr. Claypole's habit to repose a blind and foolish confidence in anybody, it should be observed, in justice to that gentleman, that he had trusted Charlotte to this extent, in order that, if they were pursued, the money might be found on her: which would leave him an opportunity of asserting his innocence of any theft, and would greatly facilitate his chances of escape.†   (source)
  • A thousand circumstances, independent of the will of man, concur to facilitate the maintenance of a democratic republic in the United States.†   (source)
  • The doctor examined Marius, and after having found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration.†   (source)
  • The water in front of the canoe was hardly ruffled by its passage and no sound betrayed the collision, when the light fabric shot on the gravelly beach for nearly half its length, Natty receding a step or two from its bow, in order to facilitate the landing.†   (source)
  • In order to facilitate this operation, and to enfilade the base of the building, the upper stories projected several feet beyond the lower in the manner usual to blockhouses, and pieces of wood filled the apertures cut in the log flooring, which were intended as loops and traps.†   (source)
  • In connection with this appellative of "Whalebone whales," it is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached bodily distinctions, which the whale, in his kinds, presents.†   (source)
  • Civil associations, therefore, facilitate political association: but, on the other hand, political association singularly strengthens and improves associations for civil purposes.†   (source)
  • Its almost perpendicular walls were bristling with innumerable projections which would facilitate the descent.†   (source)
  • This was the remora, which travels attached to the bellies of sharks; as the ancients tell it, when these little fish cling to the undersides of a ship, they can bring it to a halt, and by so impeding Mark Antony's vessel during the Battle of Actium, one of them facilitated the victory of Augustus Caesar.†   (source)
  • But, to facilitate the expedition of business, inferior courts were appended to it, which were empowered to decide causes of small importance without appeal, and with appeal causes of more magnitude.†   (source)
  • But these governments do not attend to the fact that political associations tend amazingly to multiply and facilitate those of a civil character, and that in avoiding a dangerous evil they deprive themselves of an efficacious remedy.†   (source)
  • A distinction must be made, when the aristocratic and the democratic principles mutually inveigh against each other, as tending to facilitate corruption.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, after an hour of fatigue and athletic exercises, in the midst of the vast surface of snow presented by the hollow between the two peaks, a kind of staircase appeared unexpectedly which greatly facilitated our ascent.†   (source)
  • *e As a nation becomes more engaged in manufactures, the want of roads, canals, harbors, and other works of a semi-public nature, which facilitate the acquisition of wealth, is more strongly felt; and as a nation becomes more democratic, private individuals are less able, and the State more able, to execute works of such magnitude.†   (source)
  • In the North everything contributed to facilitate the emancipation of the slaves; and slavery was abolished, without placing the free negroes in a position which could become formidable, since their number was too small for them ever to claim the exercise of their rights.†   (source)
  • Equality of conditions does not of itself engender regularity of morals, but it unquestionably facilitates and increases it.†   (source)
  • It is true that it scarcely allows the means of honorable subsistence to the individuals who conduct its affairs; but enormous sums are lavished to meet the exigencies or to facilitate the enjoyments of the people.†   (source)
  • The latter then agreed, with a view to conciliate the others, and to facilitate the act of union, to lay down their own boundaries, and to abandon all the territory which lay beyond those limits to the confederation at large.†   (source)
  • Every central power which follows its natural tendencies courts and encourages the principle of equality; for equality singularly facilitates, extends, and secures the influence of a central power.†   (source)
  • This method is very simple, prompt, and convenient; no learning is required to use it aright, and ignorance itself rather facilitates the practice; but that practice is most dangerous to the language.†   (source)
  • The limits of the counties are arbitrarily laid down, and the various districts which they contain have no necessary connection, no common tradition or natural sympathy; their object is simply to facilitate the administration of justice.†   (source)
  • To minds thus predisposed, every new method which leads by a shorter road to wealth, every machine which spares labor, every instrument which diminishes the cost of production, every discovery which facilitates pleasures or augments them, seems to be the grandest effort of the human intellect.†   (source)
  • It cannot be doubted that the spirit of the nation, the passions of the multitude, and the provincial prejudices of each State tend singularly to diminish the authority of a Federal authority thus constituted, and to facilitate the means of resistance to its mandates; but the comparative weakness of a restricted sovereignty is an evil inherent in the Federal system.†   (source)
  • But the reader will perceive that my task has not been facilitated by the limits which I here lay down for my researches.†   (source)
  • For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances—what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?†   (source)
  • Thus the tyranny of the States obliges the savages to retire, the Union, by its promises and resources, facilitates their retreat; and these measures tend to precisely the same end.†   (source)
  • Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must nevertheless be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions.†   (source)
  • But if the inhabitants of these vast regions are not divided by contrary interests, the extent of the territory may be favorable to their prosperity; for the unity of the government promotes the interchange of the different productions of the soil, and increases their value by facilitating their consumption.†   (source)
  • Further, it facilitates matters when the prince, having no other state, is compelled to reside there in person.†   (source)
  • I accepted it readily, and found it of great advantage; for, tho' the salary was small, it facilitated the correspondence that improv'd my newspaper, increas'd the number demanded, as well as the advertisements to be inserted, so that it came to afford me a considerable income.†   (source)
  • It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.†   (source)
  • The general's improving hand had not loitered here: every modern invention to facilitate the labour of the cooks had been adopted within this, their spacious theatre; and, when the genius of others had failed, his own had often produced the perfection wanted.†   (source)
  • I stayed with him several days, din'd with him daily, and had full opportunity of removing all his prejudices, by the information of what the Assembly had before his arrival actually done, and were still willing to do, to facilitate his operations.†   (source)
  • To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.†   (source)
  • My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judg'd it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arrang'd them with that view, as they stand above.†   (source)
  • Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.†   (source)
  • I had not so good an opinion of my military abilities as he profess'd to have, and I believe his professions must have exceeded his real sentiments; but probably he might think that my popularity would facilitate the raising of the men, and my influence in Assembly, the grant of money to pay them, and that, perhaps, without taxing the proprietary estate.†   (source)
  • I therefore suggested the composing them of four flat panes, with a long funnel above to draw up the smoke, and crevices admitting air below, to facilitate the ascent of the smoke; by this means they were kept clean, and did not grow dark in a few hours, as the London lamps do, but continu'd bright till morning, and an accidental stroke would generally break but a single pane, easily repair'd.†   (source)
  • It was bitter enough for Lily to ask a favour of Grace Stepney, but the alternative was bitterer still; and one morning she presented herself at Mrs. Peniston's, where Grace, for the facilitation of her pious task, had taken up a provisional abode.†   (source)
  • What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facilitate immediate purchase?†   (source)
  • From an open box on the majolicatopped table he extracted a black diminutive cone, one inch in height, placed it on its circular base on a small tin plate, placed his candlestick on the right corner of the mantelpiece, produced from his waistcoat a folded page of prospectus (illustrated) entitled Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.†   (source)
  • There are other obvious reasons that would facilitate her accession to it.†   (source)
  • Let it be remarked, in the third place, that the intercourse throughout the Union will be facilitated by new improvements.†   (source)
  • I concluded, that if he would send me #50 more to facilitate my going away, I would send him back a general release, and would promise never to disturb him more with any importunities; unless it was to hear of the well-doing of the child, whom, if I found my mother living and my circumstances able, I would send for to come over to me, and take him also effectually off his hands.†   (source)
  • But while she was pursuing this thought the good genius of Sophia, or that which presided over the integrity of Mrs Honour, or perhaps mere chance, sent an accident in her way, which at once preserved her fidelity, and even facilitated the intended business.†   (source)
  • The want of fortifications, leaving the frontiers of one state open to another, would facilitate inroads.†   (source)
  • Nothing which tends to facilitate the intercourse between the States can be deemed unworthy of the public care.†   (source)
  • There are, and will be, particular posts, the possession of which will include the command of large districts of territory, and facilitate future invasions of the remainder.†   (source)
  • Commerce, contributing to both these objects, must of necessity render the payment of taxes easier, and facilitate the requisite supplies to the treasury.†   (source)
  • Would not so circuitous an intercourse facilitate the competitions of other nations, by enhancing the price of British commodities in our markets, and by transferring to other hands the management of this interesting branch of the British commerce?†   (source)
  • Those matters which in negotiations usually require the most secrecy and the most despatch, are those preparatory and auxiliary measures which are not otherwise important in a national view, than as they tend to facilitate the attainment of the objects of the negotiation.†   (source)
  • But the convention have pursued a mean in this business, which will both facilitate the exercise of the power vested in this respect in the executive magistrate, and make its efficacy to depend on the sense of a considerable part of the legislative body.†   (source)
  • Lastly, it would facilitate and foster the baneful practice of secessions; a practice which has shown itself even in States where a majority only is required; a practice subversive of all the principles of order and regular government; a practice which leads more directly to public convulsions, and the ruin of popular governments, than any other which has yet been displayed among us.†   (source)
  • will impose on local factions and insurrections, and on the ambition of powerful individuals in single States, who may acquire credit and influence enough, from leaders and favorites, to become the despots of the people; in the diminution of the opportunities to foreign intrigue, which the dissolution of the Confederacy would invite and facilitate; in the prevention of extensive military establishments, which could not fail to grow out of wars between the States in a disunited situation; in the express guaranty of a republican form of government to each; in the absolute and universal exclusion of titles of nobility; and in the precautions against the repetition of those practices on th†   (source)
  • This view of the subject must particularly recommend a proper federal system to all the sincere and considerate friends of republican government, since it shows that in exact proportion as the territory of the Union may be formed into more circumscribed Confederacies, or States oppressive combinations of a majority will be facilitated: the best security, under the republican forms, for the rights of every class of citizens, will be diminished: and consequently the stability and independence of some member of the government, the only other security, must be proportionately increased.†   (source)
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