Word Finder - establish

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To make stable or firm; to confirm.

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To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

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To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

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To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

Free people establish governments to protect their rights.

There are a couple of things we must establish up front.

He merely wanted to establish his authority, so the others would follow his lead.

Carmen asked, trying to establish identity.

You can expand on it if you want to; say get a driver's license in another state, or establish an address.

These are the measures the government has adopted to re- establish order and relieve your condition.

How can he establish authenticity selling health products while he's smoking those things?

This attitude of the reformers towards the festival, however, intensified by their abhorrence of the traffic in indulgences with which it had become closely associated, only tended to establish it more firmly among the adherents of the "old religion."

On these grounds it has been sought to establish a close relation between Vico and Grotius.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

To establish that kingdom was his one great aim.

It takes time for me to establish motion and I got a late start.

Not a soldier himself, he had to control and direct the movements of armies; can we be surprised if he failed, or if he was unable to keep control over the generals or to establish that military co-operation so essential to success?

The object of those writings was to establish the all-pervading rule of mechanism.

He accepted, and on the Toth of January 1849, induced the grand duke to establish a national constituent assembly.

Here the efforts of Dr Alem succeeded in supplying a large body of rebels with arms and ammunition, and he was able, by a bold attack, to seize the town of Rosario and there establish the revolutionary headquarters.

Had he not at one time longed with all his heart to establish a republic in Russia; then himself to be a Napoleon; then to be a philosopher; and then a strategist and the conqueror of Napoleon?

Even private persons, lords and ladies, affected to establish in their honours courts of equity.

Sir Henry Parkes was elected president, and he moved a series of resolutions embodying the principles necessary to establish, on an enduring foundation, the structure of a federal government.

The result, was in Helmholtz's words, to establish beyond doubt that ordinary light consists of electrical vibrations in an all-pervading ether which possesses the properties of an insulator and of a magnetic medium.

The Portuguese also advance claims to be the first discoverers of Australia, but so far the evidence cannot be said to establish their pretensions.

Three years later, however, Godfrey was murdered, and although the raids of the Northmen did not entirely cease for upwards of another century, no further attempt was made to establish a permanent dynasty in the land.

Instead they used every endeavour to establish friendly relations with the rulers of all the neighbouring kingdoms, and before d'Alboquerque returned to India he despatched embassies to China, Siam, and several kingdoms of Sumatra, and sent a small fleet, with orders to assume a highly conciliatory attitude toward all natives, in search of the Moluccas.

In 1788-1789 the government of Bengal sought to establish in the Andamans a penal colony, associated with a harbour of refuge.

It does not, as has been sometimes asserted, in any way establish a representative system, as this is understood to-day.

In cases of treason the king had a right to the forfeited lands, but he was not allowed to establish a similar right in cases of felony.

At the close of the glacial period the alpine floras retreated to the mountains accompanied by an arctic contingent, though doubtless many species of the latter, such as Salix polaris, failed to establish themselves.

He returned, after passing two winters in Canada; and on another occasion he also failed to establish a colony.

Nor was the trade to Muscovy and Turkey neglected; while latterly a resolute and successful attempt was made to establish direct commercial relations with India.

Morse's petition for a patent was soon followed by a petition to Congress for an appropriation to defray the expense of subjecting the telegraph to actual experiment over a length sufficient to establish its feasibility and demonstrate its value.

Attempts were made about this time to establish two other captaincies, but without success.

He was instructed to build a strong city in Bahia and to establish there the seat of his government.

In the following session Religious Tests in the universities were abolished, and a bill to establish secret voting was carried through the House of Commons.

Although nations create governments to establish such protections, history shows that all too often, governments fail to do so.

But this affiliation is hard to establish.

Under Midhat Pasha, governor-general of Bagdad from 1866 to 1871, an attempt was made by the Turkish authorities to establish regular steam navigation on the Euphrates.

He was sent as a child to be educated at Port Royal, and there he received his final bent towards the life of a recluse, and even of a hermit, which drew him to establish himself in the neighbourhood of Port Royal des Champs.

Menelaus held the citadel and Jason was unable to establish himself in the city.

As early as 1831 an unsuccessful attempt was made to form an adequate public school fund; the first real effort to establish a common school system for the territory was made after 1835; in 1840 there were altogether 18 academies and 51 common schools, and in 1849 the state legislature made an appropriation in the interest of the public instruction of white pupils, and this was supplemented by the proceeds of land granted by the United States government for the same purpose.

The regent was requested to establish there the seat of his government, but a more secure asylum presented itself in Rio de Janeiro, where the royal fugitives arrived on the 7th of March.

He was opposed to political Zionism, and the Montreal Conference (1897), at his instigation, passed resolutions disapproving of the attempt to establish a Jewish state, and affirming that the Jewish Messianic hope pointed to a great universal brotherhood.

In 1859, the state of Louisiana proposing to establish a military college, Sherman was appointed its superintendent.

Then turning his attention to the count of Blois, he proceeded to establish a fortress at Langeais, a few miles from Tours, from which, thanks to the intervention of the king Hugh Capet, Odo failed to oust him.

This mode of statement helps to establish the idea of an average.

The first state constitution, adopted by a convention at Kingston, made few changes in the provincial system other than those necessary to establish it on a popular basis, but the powers of the governor were curtailed, especially his powers of appointment and veto.

This was preceded, on the 25th of April, by an attack, headed by Cochrane, on the Turkish troops established near the monastery of St Spiridion, the result of which was to establish communications between the Greeks at Munychia and Phalerum and isolate Reshid's vanguard on the promontory of the Piraeus.

Recognition of this threefold character led Deshayes to establish a threefold division of the Tertiary based on the percentage of molluscs belonging to types now living found in each.

Iturbide eventually combined with Guerrero, and proclaimed the " Plan of Iguala," which laid down, as the bases of the new state, the maintenance of the Roman Catholic religion and the privileges of the clergy, the establish ment of a limited monarchy, and equality of rights Emperor, for Spaniards and native-born Mexicans.

A politique, Bohemund was resolved to engineer the enthusiasm of the crusaders to his own ends; and when his nephew Tancred left the main army at Heraclea, and attempted to establish a footing in Cilicia, the movement may have been already intended as a preparation for Bohemund's eastern principality.

In Europe, bands of territory from time to time have been made desert to better establish separation.