skyscraper

skyscraper


    Choose language
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    flag-widget
    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "supposing" in a sentence

    supposing example sentences

    supposing


    1. With a swift kick, Andrew knocked the wooden door off its hinges, supposing that he could always go back and fix it once the crisis was averted


    2. The great accession both of territory and trade by our acquisitions in North America and the West Indies, will sufficiently account for this, without supposing any diminution in the capital stock of the society


    3. labourer's, therefore, supposing them to have been constantly employed, were much superior


    4. The wages of the master mason, supposing him to have been without


    5. We cannot, therefore, be very wrong in supposing that the middle price was not less than one-third of the highest price at which this statute regulates the price of bread, or than six shillings and eightpence of the money of those times, containing four ounces of silver, Tower weight


    6. But, in the course of these sixty-four years, there happened two events, which must have produced a much greater scarcity of corn than what the course of the season is would otherwise have occasioned, and which, therefore, without supposing any further reduction in the value of silver, will much more than account for this very small enhancement of price


    7. The rise, indeed, supposing there has been any, has hitherto been so very small, that after all that has been said, it may, perhaps, appear to many people uncertain, not only whether this event has actually taken place, but whether the contrary may not have taken place, or whether the value of silver may not still continue to fall in the European market


    8. If, notwithstanding a great rise in the price, it still continues to prevail through a considerable part of the country, it is owing in many places, no doubt, to ignorance and attachment to old customs, but, in most places, to the unavoidable obstructions which the natural course of things opposes to the immediate or speedy establishment of a better system : first, to the poverty of the tenants, to their not having yet had time to acquire a stock of cattle sufficient to cultivate their lands more completely, the same rise of price, which would render it advantageous for them to maintain a greater stock, rendering it more difficult for them to acquire it; and, secondly, to their not having yet had time to put their lands in condition to maintain this greater stock properly, supposing they were capable of acquiring it


    9. As to the high price of corn during these last ten or twelve years, it can be sufficiently accounted for from the badness of the seasons, without supposing any degradation in the value of silver


    10. But they were sophistical, in supposing, that either to preserve or to augment the quantity of those metals required more the attention of government, than to preserve or to augment the quantity of any other useful

    11. Supposing, however, in the mean time, that they have this effect, and they have it undoubtedly, this general enhancement of the price of all commodities, in consequence of that labour, is a case which differs in the two following respects from that of a particular commodity, of which the price was enhanced by a particular tax immediately imposed upon it


    12. Supposing the current money of the two countries equally near to the standard of their respective mints, and that the one pays foreign bills in this common currency, while the other pays them in bank money, it is evident that the computed exchange may be in favour of that which pays in bank money, though the real exchange should be in favour of that which pays in current money; for the same reason that the computed exchange may be in favour of that which pays in better money, or in money nearer to its own standard, though the real exchange should be in favour of that which pays in worse


    13. But this event, supposing it to be real, as I believe it to be, must have happened in spite of the bounty, and cannot possibly have happened in consequence of it


    14. Not only its value far exceeds what the capitals of a few private men are capable of purchasing; but, supposing they were capable of purchasing it, the manner in which it is produced renders this purchase altogether impracticable


    15. In order, therefore, to make out something like an argument, it was necessary that they should express themselves as they have done ; and this argument, even supposing things actually were as it seems to presume them to be, turns out to be a very inconclusive one


    16. Different plans have been proposed by the different parties in parliament for the better management of its affairs; and all those plans seem to agree in supposing, what was indeed always abundantly evident, that it is altogether unfit to govern its territorial possessions


    17. Supposing that the sovereign should have, what he scarce ever has, the immediate means of augmenting his revenue in proportion to the augmentation of his expense; yet still the produce of the taxes, from which this increase of revenue must be drawn, will not begin to come into the treasury, till perhaps ten or twelve months after they are imposed


    18. From this revenue, supposing that this system could produce it, must be deducted the revenue usually raised in Ireland and the plantations, for defraying the expense of the respective civil governments


    19. “Yes I am a bit but I don’t think its death itself but the pain of it and the not knowing about afterwards supposing there even is an afterwards


    20. "But supposing they find him guilty?" she reflected

    21. Supposing he went out now and called in the police, or let someone else find the body


    22. Isn’t that what you Contras wanted us to think? How could I have known? Supposing, just supposing, that for some bizarre reason I was after you, why would I look for you in Limon Harbor? Can you tell me that? And yes, Edgar was investigating drug trafficking! Don’t you dare refer to him or his work as bullshit! A more honorable man has never lived!” His body shook with agitation


    23. anywhere, the place had nearly reached the mystical non-existent state, supposing


    24. 43 Eleazar also surnamed Savaran perceiving that one of the beasts armed with royal harness was higher than all the rest and supposing that the king was on him 44 Put himself in jeopardy to the end he might deliver his people and get him a perpetual name: 45 What for he ran on him courageously through the midst of the battle killing on the right hand and on the left so that they were divided from him on both sides


    25. 32 Now Menelaus supposing that he had gotten a convenient time stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple and gave some of them to Andronicus and some he sold into Tyrus and the cities round about


    26. 44 but supposing Him to be in the company they went a day's journey and they looked for Him among their relatives and acquaintances


    27. I was supposing the rest of the holes would be uncovered, maybe today


    28. The path they had traversed was a perilous one, even for hill-men, and for that reason Conan had avoided it that day when carrying Yasmina, though Kerim Shah, following him, had taken it supposing the Cimmerian had done likewise


    29. The friends who were with Mary, seeking to comfort her, when they saw that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep


    30. he said slowly, not to be outdone by the Canadian's logic, "just supposing the Romanov gold is on dry land

    31. Supposing it was rescued -- supposing it was put in a quiet, remote place


    32. Supposing you are a Two (Helper) with responsibility for


    33. d) Or supposing that GE (a nuclear bomb maker) had a couple of nukes that are not accounted for in the military arsenal, and that are hidden in different American cities, and that after Iran gets nuclear weapons, New York City is blown off the face of the earth, and “intelligence sources”, hot on the trail, are “sure” that it was Iranian agents who did the deed and became martyrs in the detonation


    34. supposing him to have been in the company, went a


    35. His conscience pricked him about the other two divers he had murdered - yes murdered! Supposing they’d had nothing to do with Manuel, maybe they were just having a night dive? Max shifted position; guilt was sweeping over him, at the possibility that the men were innocent victims


    36. For he told us of the emptiness of their lives, their adherence to the rules of the temple, but no one or nothing cared about them or made any difference in their life, and supposing they didn’t know of any true power; but this Jesus that they’d heard about did


    37. And a few days later, men from other cities came and they conjoined together to stone Paul, and then dragged him from the city, supposing him to be dead


    38. For the last, more than several, weeks, God was preparing me for this visit in Antioch, and at the time, had no idea that it might be for this purpose, or am I supposing, but still as yet, the full impact of this learning session, hasn’t fully sunk in


    39. Even supposing that buildings were a given, it might be


    40. This provides another reason for supposing that

    41. Even supposing they are in a minority, when judged by human estimate, they will still prove at last to be very many in the kingdom of glory, an enormous company, "a multitude which no man can number


    42. I own that I care little for some of the provisions of that Bill, and I doubt much if they would work well, supposing they passed the fiery ordeal of Lords' and Commons' Committees


    43. But supposing these things are true, what aught those unhappy persons to do who have no marks of regeneration about them, and feel that they are not born again? Are they to sit still in hopeless despair?


    44. But supposing a person finds in himself some reason to hope that he really is born again, and has the true marks of regeneration, what is he to do? Is he to sit still, and take no more trouble about his soul?


    45. first "supposing" session, it was to be aroused anew when I later came across what was written in


    46. ‘But even supposing they do, they’ll take a devil of a time sorting it


    47. He extremely refused asserting that he was not our Master Jesus (cpth) and denied that strongly, yet they did not hear his utterance nay they killed and crucified him supposing him to be our Master Jesus (cpth)


    48. Was the man they thought was the greatest magnate of them all and the grand provider of succor the disciple of a cow?! Even supposing Al’lah had made it speak, why did He send Al-Khidr to prevent Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani from entering the city of science, according to these claims?!


    49. Supposing I had died in the process, it would simply mean that my choice of him as a comforting companion is completely of no effect


    50. Supposing we keep a chill at the entire bottom, it is EQUIVALENT to













































    Show more examples

    Synonyms for "supposing"

    presuming supposed