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    commencement


    1. Formally open the doors and celebrate the commencement of the school


    2. All male children exempted according to an approved criteria, or beyond school age up to the age of eighteen years, not currently apprenticed or otherwise gainfully employed, shall henceforward be required to provide bi-annual proof of employment to this Council at the commencement of Autumn school term and at the end of Spring school term


    3. By the end of the term a commencement was held for the graduating class


    4. Brass plates inscribed with the names of each year's classes were to be mounted, in succession, after commencement exercises were completed


    5. The intervening terms between his beginning Sixth Form and the summer of his commencement flew by him like a blur


    6. In other parts of Europe, after it was found convenient to secure tenants both against heirs and purchasers, the term of their security was still limited to a very short period ; in France, for example, to nine years from the commencement of the lease


    7. If we count the one-third and two-third subsidies as making a complete subsidy between them, there have been five of these general subsidies; so that, before the commencement of the present war, seventy-five per cent


    8. The state of our North American colonies, and of the trade which they carried on with Great Britain, before the commencement of the present disturbances, {This paragraph was written in the year 1775


    9. These circumstances had probably introduced that general taste for Madeira wine, which our officers found established in all our colonies at the commencement of the war which began in 1755, and which they brought back with them to the mother country, where that wine had not been much in fashion before


    10. From the commencement of the winter fishing 1771, to the end of the winter fishing 1781, the tonnage bounty upon the herring-buss fishery has been at thirty shillings the ton

    11. I must observe, too, that the cask or barrel, which is usually sold with the herrings, and of which the price is included in all the foregoing prices, has, since the commencement of the American war, risen to about double its former price, or from about 3s


    12. ‘The commencement rhythms seem fairly straightforward surprisingly, though of course that could be a trap


    13. The expense of the civil establishment of Massachusetts Bay, before the commencement of the present disturbances, used to be but about £18;000 a-year ; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and Pennsylvania, £4500 each; that of New Jersey, £1200; that of Virginia and South Carolina, £8000 each


    14. All the different civil establishments in North America, in short, exclusive of those of Maryland and North Carolina, of which no exact account has been got, did not, before the commencement of the present disturbances, cost the inhabitants about £64,700 a-year; an ever memorable example, at how small an expense three millions of people may not only be governed but well governed


    15. Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the colony assemblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power


    16. The expense of the ordinary peace establishment of the colonies amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances to the pay of twenty regiments of foot ; to the expense of the artillery, stores, and extraordinary provisions, with which it was necessary to supply them ; and to the expense of a very considerable naval force, which was constantly kept up, in order to guard from the smuggling vessels of other nations, the immense coast of North America, and that of our West Indian islands


    17. By a very exact account of the revenue of the principal colonies of America and the West Indies, it amounted, before the commencement of the present disturbances, to a hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred pounds


    18. Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the coercive power of the mother-country had always been able to restrain those factions from breaking out into any thing worse than gross brutality and insult


    19. The expense of the peace-establishment of the colonies was, before the commencement of the present disturbances, very considerable, and is an expense which may, and, if no revenue can be drawn from them, ought certainly to be saved altogether


    20. In those two wars, the colonies cost Great Britain much more than double the sum which the national debt amounted to before the commencement of the first of them

    21. Among the honor students receiving their baccalaureate at commencement exercises, was one who had been selected by the university president to receive special recognition for her spectacular achievement


    22. All eyes shifted to Kosmo who sat as though he were at a commencement speech


    23. And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary, which is named the Moon; And her circumference is like the circumference of the Heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in definite measure; And her rising and setting change every month, and her days are like the days of the sun, and when her light is uniform that is full it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun; And so she rises; And her first phase in the east comes out on the thirtieth morning, and on that day she becomes visible, and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises; And the one half of her goes out by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, and the fourteenth part of her light; And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light, her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half of it; And she sets with the sun, and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light, and in that night in the beginning of her morning in the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with the sun, and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them; And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part, and comes out and recedes from the rising of the sun, and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the remaining thirteen parts


    24. And after this law I saw another law dealing with the smaller luminary which is named the Moon; And her circumference is like the circumference of the Heaven and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind and light is given to her in definite measure; And her rising and setting change every month and her days are like the days of the sun and when her light is uniform that is full it amounts to the seventh part of the light of the sun; And so she rises; And her first phase in the east comes out on the thirtieth morning and on that day she becomes visible and constitutes for you the first phase of the moon on the thirtieth day together with the sun in the portal where the sun rises; And the one half of her goes out by a seventh part and her whole circumference is empty without light with the exception of one-seventh part of it and the fourteenth part of her light; And when she receives one-seventh part of the half of her light her light amounts to one-seventh part and the half of it; And she sets with the sun and when the sun rises the moon rises with him and receives the half of one part of light and in that night in the beginning of her morning in the commencement of the lunar day the moon sets with the sun and is invisible that night with the fourteen parts and the half of one of them; And she rises on that day with exactly a seventh part and comes out and recedes from the rising of the sun and in her remaining days she becomes bright in the remaining thirteen parts


    25. shall prohibit the commencement or continuation of the activity


    26. My father was also a member of the Friends of Ithaca College and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the College’s 1985 Commencement when he delivered the main address


    27. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities Degree by NC State in 1978, and that same year, on May 13, he gave State’s Eighty-ninth Annual Commencement address


    28. In concluding his address, he said he could think of no greater honor for an old grad than “being asked back to make a commencement speech


    29. Above Bojoston, Zarkog’s forces were starting their attack anew, exactly the same as they had at the commencement of their first attempt at the exercise


    30. So facts, figures and numerals should come at the commencement of the speech

    31. bring a man to the commencement of the Path of development


    32. authorities would put its effective commencement somewhat later than this,


    33. Before commencement of business the next morning, James and May-Lin met with Amelia in the “TuranColl” pent-house where they swiftly appraised her of the current situation regarding the kidnapping of Marianne and of Jenni’s treachery


    34. After the commencement of the winter semester, the day to day routine of university life seemed pedestrian and dull and his discontent began to affect his work


    35. 1 Commencement of tenancy


    36. Pastor Joseph Lee from their family church stood impatiently awaiting, the commencement of the ceremony


    37. still hear the commencement sound of the marching song


    38. Before the commencement of the Soviet counter offensive three million Russian prisoners of war had been taken and twenty thousand tanks, twenty eight thousand guns and fifteen thousand aircraft had also been lost


    39. The reestablishing of the nation of Israel was probably an early sign of approaching end times and in a similar way the commencement of this project will be of great significance, being the last thing that needs to be in place for a literal fulfillment of these prophecies


    40. “All jewellery is removed prior to commencement of the process as well as all metal objects that would create a hazard to staff, such as pacemakers and the like

    41. People all over the world had stayed at their homes with TV in front and were waiting for commencement of proceedings eagerly


    42. ” The rest of the family sat expectantly awaiting the commencement of dinner


    43. When requested, Subba Reddy gladly put the drafting table to use, as a mark of the commencement of work


    44. The Project team has made one remark that the time thus estimated in work days would require that the duration of the project is calculated relevant to the starting date of commencement of the project giving consideration to weekends and holidays as non-working days


    45. So this is the point of commencement of the war


    46. There is constant growth of wisdom after the commencement of spir-


    47. ship or adoration is the commencement of this remedy


    48. The commencement of worship


    49. by the ear nest and devoted worshipper is the commencement of de-


    50. with the commencement of worship





































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    Synonyms for "commencement"

    beginning commencement start commencement ceremony commencement exercise graduation graduation exercise first get-go kickoff offset outset showtime starting time initiation genesis opening advent dawn

    "commencement" definitions

    the time at which something is supposed to begin


    an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred


    the act of starting something