Verwenden Sie „nugatory“ in einem Satz

1. assigned me a nugatory duty of colecting material and apparently my job was done

2. If any important member of the narrative is rendered by our interpretation nugatory, or is paralyzed, the interpretation is false

3. Angus, inscribed at the head of this chapter, that if any important member of a narrative is rendered by our interpretation nugatory, or is paralyzed, the interpretation is false

4. According to these highly respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying,—conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels,—had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness

5. The expense is nugatory, and even while you wait for admission in the street you are diverted by "buskers"

6. 10 In 1936 the company effected a second voluntary rearrangement, under which the interest rate was fixed at 4%, and the bondholders received a rather nugatory bonus of common stock

7. He had many other objections to this bill, among which were these: that, although it raised the embargo only in part, the permission to vessels to go out, would render the provision for a partial embargo nugatory; that, if the bill were to pass in its present shape, it was to be doubted whether any revenue officer of the United States would understand the duty enjoined on him by it; that a time only two days previous to the meeting of the next Congress was fixed upon as the day upon which the non-importation should go into operation, and thus the bill appeared to manifest a distrust of that Congress, who certainly would be more competent than the present Congress to decide on its propriety at that time; that a non-intercourse between these countries, would but compel our citizens to pay a double freight to and from the entrepôt, without producing any other effect than injuring our own citizens; that goods from these countries, although their importation were interdicted by law, would be introduced nevertheless; that the extent of the territory and seacoast of the United States was so great that all efforts to interdict the importation of goods must be ineffectual, for they would be introduced contrary to law; thus depriving the United States of the revenue which would be derived from them, if their importation were permitted by law

8. If you give it the construction the gentleman contends for, to wit: that the second member of the passage is an extension of the description given by the first, then the second includes the first, and of consequence the first would be nugatory and superfluous; which would be doing violence to the gentleman's own rule of construction

9. If the States are prohibited from emitting bills of credit, it would have been, to say the least of it, wholly nugatory to say they should not make them a legal tender

10. A power given to Congress in its legislative capacity, without the right to pass laws to execute it, would be nugatory; would be no power at all

11. No projectile force that we are acquainted with can throw a heavy body 100 miles, even though no atmospheric, or other resistance than its own gravity, were present; hence the idea of that force extending to thousands of miles from the moon's surface, is gratuitous and nugatory

12. If there can be a legitimate departure from them in one case, the restraint becomes wholly nugatory

13. But, why, I pray you? Because such a resistance would have been confined to the idle and nugatory act of declaring it

14. its operation is nugatory on France, 9;