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  • Of course, Dad considered this might be too easy, and he stipulated we only got paid if we found the correct object.†   (source)
  • But he imposed a curious stipulation.†   (source)
  • No cooking, no changing diapers, no walking out for the mail, no lifting anything heavier than a toothbrush—and that meant her baby, a stipulation that nearly killed her.†   (source)
  • This same statute furthermore stipulated that no person shall hold title for an alien—a noncitizen—in any way, shape, or form.†   (source)
  • If I do come in, and do decide to take the job, it's with the stipulation that if either of us decides it's not working, we just say so.†   (source)
  • They're stipulated in a contract that runs until the end of this year, whether Henrik lives or dies.†   (source)
  • "Now, I know the bounty stipulates that you and the girl Annabeth should be kept alive if possible, but honestly, the girl is already doomed, so I hope you don't mind if we deviate from the plan."†   (source)
  • Typically, we received even less than the meager amounts stipulated in the regulations.†   (source)
  • Wilder and Oilman had presented the clues in the order that the script had stipulated: ice, waddle, then black and white.†   (source)
  • And now regulations stipulate that we make yet another check.†   (source)
  • Once, as a test, he sent Pea and the boy and the Raineys to Fort Benton with a sizable bunch of cattle, stipulating that the boy was to handle the details of the sale and bring home the money.†   (source)
  • They say that the stipulation that two female witnesses equal one male witness applied only to financial cases, because women at the time were less familiar with finance.†   (source)
  • Belle accepted, too, her denomination's strictures against alcohol, narcotics, and unclean foods; against swearing and unchastity; and against violation of the Ten Commandments—including the Commandment that stipulated, "Thou Shalt Not Kill."†   (source)
  • The three men, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Meggesto, and Judge Anderson, debated what had been stipulated prior to the preliminary.†   (source)
  • They were unable to bribe the members of Congress, and on the date stipulated by law the left calmly came to power.†   (source)
  • The unwritten contract of erotic friendship stipulated that Tomas should exclude all love from his life.†   (source)
  • The judge nodded, making notes; and Greenleaf stipulated to the list of Fletcher's credentials.†   (source)
  • So stipulated, Your Honor.†   (source)
  • It stipulates that the English soil must be firmly attached to England.†   (source)
  • "The Vice President of the United States," stipulated Article I, Section 3, of the Constitution, "shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided."†   (source)
  • Secret Service protocol stipulates that whenever a motorcade must slow down for a turn, agents must do a security check of the entire intersection ahead of time.†   (source)
  • He did make one stipulation, sir.†   (source)
  • Instead I rule that the negroes of the Amistad be handed over to President Van Buren under the guidelines stipulated in the Treaty of 1819, and be safely returned to their homeland.†   (source)
  • What stipulations?†   (source)
  • " After reading Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in December, 1863, which stipulated southern acceptance of emancipation as a condition of peace, another Arkansas soldier, a planter, wrote his wife that Lincoln not only wanted to free the slaves but also "declares them entitled to all the rights and privileges as American citizens.†   (source)
  • After five months had gone by, the Canadians said: "It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves."†   (source)
  • It could also be seen as a violation of a treaty stipulation or the general laws of nations.†   (source)
  • Can it be stipulated that the majority of inhabitants of Earth's major satellite are not undischarged consignees but free individuals?†   (source)
  • So the contract is going to stipulate that the name remains the same.†   (source)
  • The will also stipulates that if you are deceased, all property goes to your wife.†   (source)
  • Unlike some, he did not extract payment in kind to the last grain; he allowed us to keep the gleanings; he did not demand from us bribes of food or money; nor did he claim for himself the dung from the fields, which he might easily have done, stipulating only that Kali and I should gather our share on different days to avoid arguments.†   (source)
  • The agreement stipulates that you can cancel the Vanger shareholding as of today.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, you could stipulate that a portion be held in trust for the kids.†   (source)
  • Bjurman was dead because he had chosen not to play according to the rules she had stipulated.†   (source)
  • I will put a stipulation in my will that no one opens the journals until all of us are dead.†   (source)
  • Albeit with stipulations for verification of their safe delivery to Sierra Leone, no doubt.†   (source)
  • They will not stipulate that it is Seth Hubbard's handwriting?"†   (source)
  • That seemed to be his only stipulation.†   (source)
  • He also banished Sunday Times reporter Ken Vernon and photographer Richard Shorey from the expedition, even though Woodall had signed a contract stipulating that in return for receiving financial backing from the newspaper, the two journalists would be "allowed to accompany the expedition at all times," and that failure to honor this stipulation "would be cause for breach of contract."†   (source)
  • Before he turned me into a vampire—his big compromise—he had one other stipulation to make good on.†   (source)
  • But suddenly we're asked to stipulate, according to a list of terms, why we think that, and the terms are meaningless to us.†   (source)
  • Lincoln, however, reminds Hay that being president of the United States stipulates that he be a man of the people.†   (source)
  • I don't know about any stipulations.†   (source)
  • One fascinating experiment took place in India after 1993, when the Indian constitution was amended to stipulate that one third of the positions of village chief were to be reserved for women.†   (source)
  • As he wrote, the plan passed "without one particle" of such stipulations and, in fact, would remain the model for nearly all treaties of the United States for the next twenty-five years.†   (source)
  • And their contracts stipulate that any injury suffered during recreational periods are not covered by workman's comp," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Speaking again for myself, I would not be prepared to stipulate that what you say is necessarily true.†   (source)
  • There is, for example, a well-known statement attributed to Muhammad stipulating that a man's prayers are ineffective if a woman, dog, or donkey passes in front of the believer.†   (source)
  • According to one newspaper article, Forbes was suspected of having placed a larger portion of the assets into investment funds than was stipulated in the statutes.†   (source)
  • "My debts, which I hope will not be large," Adams had stipulated, "and my funeral charges, which I hope will be very small, must be paid by my executors."†   (source)
  • All signals are off, all stipulations.†   (source)
  • Gedney and his crew had acted meritoriously and were entitled to salvage in the percentages and within the stipulations declared by Judge Judson.†   (source)
  • Lord Carmarthen readily agreed that by the Paris Treaty His Majesty's armed forces were to depart from the United States "with all convenient speed," but, as he liked also to point out, the same treaty stipulated that creditors on either side "shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling of all bona fide debts."†   (source)
  • Lanier picked up a document and said, "Your Honor, I have here Exhibit C-5, which has already been stipulated to and admitted."†   (source)
  • Also notice the form and phraseology employed in these orders not only permits Paine to do so despite the fact that a trial regarding the disposition of the blacks was pending, but also that there was no stipulation that this action of apprehension had to wait until after a decision had been rendered by the district court.†   (source)
  • At Judge Atlee's heavy-handed insistence, the handwriting was stipulated to be that of Henry Seth Hubbard.†   (source)
  • The cause of death was stipulated.†   (source)
  • Yes, Your Honor, at this time I would like for the jury to be instructed that it has been stipulated by all parties that the documents just admitted into evidence were indeed written by Mr. Seth Hubbard.†   (source)
  • The double tense of the verb, present-past, stipulates and brushes aside the concept that identity is a meaningless abstraction—is this the sword you actually used, in the everyday meaning, and don't kid me, soldier.†   (source)
  • " "And for us, too," stipulated Neeley.†   (source)
  • When I lent you the money to buy that mill I made one stipulation, to which you agreed, and that was that it should not go to the support of Ashley Wilkes.†   (source)
  • I remember very well how this surprised me and how I warned my aunt against giving in to his stipulation.†   (source)
  • The other condition is of no importance-it is merely a stipulation that you should not be in domestic service.†   (source)
  • My invitation to speak in Atlanta stipulated that I was to confine my address to five minutes.†   (source)
  • "No handcuffs," stipulated the stranger.†   (source)
  • Cornelius stipulated that in case he were to pilot Brown out, his canoe should be towed.†   (source)
  • "It's understood, then?" he stipulated nervously, with his hand on Selden's arm.†   (source)
  • But she stipulated that he must, in some way, perhaps symbolical, come back to her.†   (source)
  • It fell to his lot, now, to stipulate for secrecy.†   (source)
  • I ask no questions and make no stipulations.†   (source)
  • I see that they were nothing else than the stipulated price for that vindictive old man's will.†   (source)
  • You will stipulate, I see, for peculiar terms — what will they be?†   (source)
  • My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.†   (source)
  • The second stipulation was of nearly the same importance.†   (source)
  • Still more so, by the stipulation of implicit confidence which I beg to impose.†   (source)
  • Now, Mr. Pip, I have done with stipulations.†   (source)
  • "No ceremony," he stipulated, "and no dinner dress, and say to-morrow."†   (source)
  • We must make this a most express and serious stipulation, not to be broken on any account.†   (source)
  • This is where the disadvantages of a court structure that, right from the start, stipulates that all proceedings take place in private, come into force.†   (source)
  • In short, my aunt stipulated, at one and the same time, that whoever came to see her must approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of an ultimate recovery.†   (source)
  • One of the things he had stipulated—almost the only one—when he had agreed to come abroad with Dallas, was that, in Paris, he shouldn't be made to go to one of the newfangled "palaces."†   (source)
  • In the still-room sat the band, who had stipulated for champagne as part of their fee, and who were already drinking beer.†   (source)
  • They stipulated that for a yes or no, the glass would not have to point to letters, but could simply reply with one or two knocks.†   (source)
  • Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana's important communication within the limits of ten minutes.†   (source)
  • The memorandum-book begins with the well-known words saying that 'the management of the Opera shall give to the performance of the National Academy of Music the splendor that becomes the first lyric stage in France' and ends with Clause 98, which says that the privilege can be withdrawn if the manager infringes the conditions stipulated in the memorandum-book.†   (source)
  • She called Mr. Fitzpatrick away from his screen and told him that her daughter had signed for four concerts and that, of course, according to the terms of the contract, she should receive the sum originally stipulated for, whether the society gave the four concerts or not.†   (source)
  • She had come of a penniless branch of the Powys family, and they had forced upon her poor dear Edward without making the stipulation that the children should be brought up as Catholics.†   (source)
  • …and begged merely to have the chance to speak to her some time, especially as he was unable to do anything with Mrs. Grubach either until he had spoken with Miss Bürstner, he finally informed her that the following Sunday he would stay in his room all day waiting for a sign from her that there was some hope of his request being fulfilled, or at least that she would explain to him why she could not fulfil it even though he had promised to observe whatever stipulations she might make.†   (source)
  • "Anne Shirley," faltered the shrinking child, not daring to make any stipulations regarding the spelling thereof, "and I'm eleven years old."†   (source)
  • They were attentive but silent observers of the proceedings of the vanquished, failing in none of the stipulated military honors, and offering no taunt or insult, in their success, to their less fortunate foes.†   (source)
  • To render his visits the more agreeable, my aunt had instructed me to open a credit for him at a cake shop, which was hampered with the stipulation that he should not be served with more than one shilling's-worth in the course of any one day.†   (source)
  • I will admit that it was therein conditioned, or stipulated, that a certain journey should be performed conjointly, or in company, until so many days had been numbered.†   (source)
  • Now I make this stipulation—that I shall examine him in your presence, and that, if, from what he says, we judge, and I can show to the satisfaction of your cool reason, that he is a real and thorough bad one (which is more than possible), he shall be left to his fate, without any farther interference on my part, at all events.'†   (source)
  • Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.†   (source)
  • As it was, she merely stipulated, "If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again."†   (source)
  • All are struck by the justness of his views, but no one undertakes to carry them out, so he takes a regiment, a division-stipulates that no one is to interfere with his arrangements—leads his division to the decisive point, and gains the victory alone.†   (source)
  • "Thy friend and protector," said the Templar, gravely, "I will yet be—but mark at what risk, or rather at what certainty, of dishonour; and then blame me not if I make my stipulations, before I offer up all that I have hitherto held dear, to save the life of a Jewish maiden."†   (source)
  • Still, Mr. Tulkinghorn, sir, I must stipulate that if you have any word with me, that word is spoken in the presence of my friend.†   (source)
  • Phileas Fogg, after paying the stipulated price of his passage to John Busby, and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of five hundred and fifty pounds, ascended the steamer with Aouda and Fix; and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama.†   (source)
  • The feeling of furious anger with his wife, who would not observe the proprieties and keep to the one stipulation he had laid on her, not to receive her lover in her own home, gave him no peace.†   (source)
  • Before the stipulated month expired, the necessity of passing up and down stairs frequently, caused my limbs to swell so painfully, that I became unable to perform my duties.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES An't please thee, also I'm content to stay, And serve thee in a social station; But stipulating, that I may With arts of mine afford thee recreation.†   (source)
  • The only stipulation he would make in his own favour was, that she should give him credit for the best intentions.†   (source)
  • After Emma had talked about it for ten minutes, Mr. Woodhouse felt no unwillingness, and only made the usual stipulation of not sitting at the bottom of the table himself, with the usual regular difficulty of deciding who should do it for him.†   (source)
  • [Footnote a: The charter granted by the Crown of England in 1609 stipulated, amongst other conditions, that the adventurers should pay to the Crown a fifth of the produce of all gold and silver mines.†   (source)
  • All she stipulated for was that little Rawdon should be allowed to come down and see her at the Hall.†   (source)
  • There was, at least, an assignable motive for the first stipulation; there appeared to be none whatever for the last.†   (source)
  • To this I gladly consented, only stipulating that we should go provided with food, water and a compass.†   (source)
  • For it was exceeding difficult to bear in mind all the time those strange peculiarities, privileges, and unheard of exemptions, forming the tacit stipulations on Bartleby's part under which he remained in my office.†   (source)
  • This business-like obstacle surmounted, he then stipulated that before resuming with you I should look over the books and form my own opinion.†   (source)
  • "You've come off whole, Hurry, and that's not a little," answered the other, secretly passing to the Indian the remainder of the stipulated ransom, and making an earnest sign at the same moment for him to commence his retreat.†   (source)
  • …of the one making the use of the other so evidently reasonable that the Miss Bertrams, with every superiority in their own apartments which their own sense of superiority could demand, were entirely approving it; and Mrs. Norris, having stipulated for there never being a fire in it on Fanny's account, was tolerably resigned to her having the use of what nobody else wanted, though the terms in which she sometimes spoke of the indulgence seemed to imply that it was the best room in…†   (source)
  • Jane, I will be your brother — my sisters will be your sisters — without stipulating for this sacrifice of your just rights.†   (source)
  • Don't ask me why I make the stipulations I am going to make, and exact the promise I am going to exact; I have a reason—a good one."†   (source)
  • He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; 'having a lenient consideration,' he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce.'†   (source)
  • In a postscript, she stipulated that she should have a written agreement, that she should see the child as often as she wished—she could not part with him under any other terms.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Norris and her nieces were all well pleased with its revival, and an early day was named and agreed to, provided Mr. Crawford should be disengaged: the young ladies did not forget that stipulation, and though Mrs. Norris would willingly have answered for his being so, they would neither authorise the liberty nor run the risk; and at last, on a hint from Miss Bertram, Mr. Rushworth discovered that the properest thing to be done was for him to walk down to the Parsonage directly,…†   (source)
  • I pretend to no claim upon you, Mr. C., but for the zealous and active discharge—not the languid and routine discharge, sir: that much credit I stipulate for—of my professional duty.†   (source)
  • *j [Footnote i: It is perfectly clear, says Mr. Story ("Commentaries," p.503, or in the large edition Section 1379), that any law which enlarges, abridges, or in any manner changes the intention of the parties, resulting from the stipulations in the contract, necessarily impairs it.†   (source)
  • 'And as I see on the faces about me, a disposition to inquire how it happened that I was not in the way to corroborate Oliver's tale, and had so suddenly left the kingdom, let me stipulate that I shall be asked no questions until such time as I may deem it expedient to forestall them by telling my own story.†   (source)
  • Your musical knowledge alone would entitle you to name your own terms, have as many rooms as you like, and mix in the family as much as you chose;—that is—I do not know—if you knew the harp, you might do all that, I am very sure; but you sing as well as play;—yes, I really believe you might, even without the harp, stipulate for what you chose;—and you must and shall be delightfully, honourably and comfortably settled before the Campbells or I have any rest.†   (source)
  • These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns, indicating the month, the day of the month, and the day for the stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, and London—from the 2nd of October to the 21st of December; and giving a space for setting down the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality.†   (source)
  • For the second, I shall stipulate that for my trouble in negotiation and persuasion, and helping you to this fortune, I have five hundred pounds.†   (source)
  • If it were a girl, it was to inherit the money unconditionally; but if a boy, only on the stipulation that in his minority he should never have stained his name with any public act of dishonour, meanness, cowardice, or wrong.†   (source)
  • You'll not think, Mr Dorrit,' and here he laughed again in the easiest way, 'that I am lapsing into the freemasonry of the craft—for it's not so; upon my life I can't help betraying it wherever I go, though, by Jupiter, I love and honour the craft with all my might—if I propose a stipulation as to time and place?'†   (source)
  • At the stipulated hour next morning, Nicholas repaired to the lodgings of Miss Snevellicci, which were in a place called Lombard Street, at the house of a tailor.†   (source)
  • 'With respect to the pecuniary assistance enabling us to launch our frail canoe on the ocean of enterprise, I have reconsidered that important business-point; and would beg to propose my notes of hand — drawn, it is needless to stipulate, on stamps of the amounts respectively required by the various Acts of Parliament applying to such securities — at eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months.†   (source)
  • Neither did she ever give me any money,—or anything but my daily dinner,—nor ever stipulate that I should be paid for my services.†   (source)
  • 'Therefore, madam,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I took the liberty' (he laid an emphasis on the phrase and repeated it, as though he stipulated, with urbane firmness, that he must not be contradicted again), 'I took the liberty of requesting this interview, in order that I might mention the topic to you, and inquire how you would advise me?'†   (source)
  • With this stipulation, Mrs Nickleby, who was troubled, night and day, with a vision of a hot messenger tearing up to the door to announce that Nicholas had been taken into partnership, quitted that branch of the subject, and entered upon a new one.†   (source)
  • Her fears for Sikes would have been more powerful inducements to recoil while there was yet time; but she had stipulated that her secret should be rigidly kept, she had dropped no clue which could lead to his discovery, she had refused, even for his sake, a refuge from all the guilt and wretchedness that encompasses her—and what more could she do!†   (source)
  • But, he was particular in stipulating that if I were not received with cordiality, or if I were not encouraged to repeat my visit as a visit which had no ulterior object but was simply one of gratitude for a favor received, then this experimental trip should have no successor.†   (source)
  • After a most pathetic leave-taking, Mr Lillyvick and his bride departed for Ryde, where they were to spend the next two days in profound retirement, and whither they were accompanied by the infant, who had been appointed travelling bridesmaid on Mr Lillyvick's express stipulation: as the steamboat people, deceived by her size, would (he had previously ascertained) transport her at half-price.†   (source)
  • Although we appeared at the stipulated place a quarter of an hour before the time, we found Mr. Micawber already there.†   (source)
  • We must have had some, because Dora stipulated that we were never to be married without her papa's consent.†   (source)
  • All that she, Mrs. Crupp, stipulated for, was, that she should not be 'brought in contract' with such persons.†   (source)
  • We both recommended a small sum in money, and the payment, without stipulation to Mr. Micawber, of the Uriah claims as they came in.†   (source)
  • We were disposed, notwithstanding Mr. Micawber's stipulation for my aunt's attendance, to arrange that she should stay at home, and be represented by Mr. Dick and me.†   (source)
  • The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short — as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.†   (source)
  • The 'young gal' was re-engaged; but on the stipulation that she should only bring in the dishes, and then withdraw to the landing-place, beyond the outer door; where a habit of sniffing she had contracted would be lost upon the guests, and where her retiring on the plates would be a physical impossibility.†   (source)
  • He did not stipulate for any particular sum, my dear Fanny; he only requested me, in general terms, to assist them, and make their situation more comfortable than it was in his power to do.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIII — CONCERNING AUXILIARIES, MIXED SOLDIERY, AND ONE'S OWN Auxiliaries, which are the other useless arm, are employed when a prince is called in with his forces to aid and defend, as was done by Pope Julius in the most recent times; for he, having, in the enterprise against Ferrara, had poor proof of his mercenaries, turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand, King of Spain,(*) for his assistance with men and arms.†   (source)
  • He came up immediately into the printing-house, continu'd the quarrel, high words pass'd on both sides, he gave me the quarter's warning we had stipulated, expressing a wish that he had not been oblig'd to so long a warning.†   (source)
  • That the general should come forward to solicit the alliance, or that he should even very heartily approve it, they were not refined enough to make any parading stipulation; but the decent appearance of consent must be yielded, and that once obtained—and their own hearts made them trust that it could not be very long denied—their willing approbation was instantly to follow.†   (source)
  • —Of course, Mr B. proceeded to stipulate, you must look at both sides of the question.†   (source)
  • …until extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental of 64 pounds, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in possession of the lender or lenders with a saving clause envisaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned, otherwise the messuage to become the absolute property of the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years stipulated.†   (source)
  • The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians.†   (source)
  • But the admission of consuls into the United States, where no previous treaty has stipulated it, seems to have been nowhere provided for.†   (source)
  • "No, brother," answered the lady, "I insist on the formality of its being delivered me, with a full ratification of all the concessions stipulated."†   (source)
  • …slaying the giant I may become king, and be able to confer favours on thee, and give thee what I have promised, let me tell thee I shall be able very easily to satisfy thy desires without marrying; for before going into battle I will make it a stipulation that, if I come out of it victorious, even I do not marry, they shall give me a portion portion of the kingdom, that I may bestow it upon whomsoever I choose, and when they give it to me upon whom wouldst thou have me bestow it but…†   (source)
  • It is true, that where treaties of commerce stipulate for the mutual appointment of consuls, whose functions are connected with commerce, the admission of foreign consuls may fall within the power of making commercial treaties; and that where no such treaties exist, the mission of American consuls into foreign countries may PERHAPS be covered under the authority, given by the ninth article of the Confederation, to appoint all such civil officers as may be necessary for managing the…†   (source)
  • She was beginning to comment on the story, but Jones interrupted her; for, as the hour of assignation now drew nigh, he began to stipulate for a second interview with the lady that evening, which he promised should be the last at her house; swearing, at the same time, that she was one of great distinction, and that nothing but what was intirely innocent was to pass between them; and I do firmly believe he intended to keep his word.†   (source)
  • …to the city of El Toboso and present yourself before her on my behalf, that she deal with you according to her good pleasure; and if she leaves you free to do yours, you are in like manner to return and seek me out (for the trail of my mighty deeds will serve you as a guide to lead you to where I may be), and tell me what may have passed between you and her-conditions which, in accordance with what we stipulated before our combat, do not transgress the just limits of knight-errantry.†   (source)
  • This sum, after some altercation, was reduced to two; and Jones, having stipulated for the full forgiveness of both Partridge and the wife, was going to pay the money; when his majesty, restraining his hand, turned to the witness and asked him, "At what time he had discovered the criminals?"†   (source)
  • But were an exposition of the term "inhabitants" to be admitted which would confine the stipulated privileges to citizens alone, the difficulty is diminished only, not removed.†   (source)
  • Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power which, by express stipulations, ought long since to have been surrendered?†   (source)
  • It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgements of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince.†   (source)
  • The Parliament, it is true, is sometimes seen employing itself in altering the existing laws to conform them to the stipulations in a new treaty; and this may have possibly given birth to the imagination, that its co-operation was necessary to the obligatory efficacy of the treaty.†   (source)
  • No nation acquainted with the nature of our political association would be unwise enough to enter into stipulations with the United States, by which they conceded privileges of any importance to them, while they were apprised that the engagements on the part of the Union might at any moment be violated by its members, and while they found from experience that they might enjoy every advantage they desired in our markets, without granting us any return but such as their momentary…†   (source)
  • …by the fear of powerful neighbors, to one of which they were formerly subject; by the few sources of contention among a people of such simple and homogeneous manners; by their joint interest in their dependent possessions; by the mutual aid they stand in need of, for suppressing insurrections and rebellions, an aid expressly stipulated and often required and afforded; and by the necessity of some regular and permanent provision for accomodating disputes among the cantons.†   (source)
  • But it is at least problematical, whether an unjust sentence against a foreigner, where the subject of controversy was wholly relative to the lex loci, would not, if unredressed, be an aggression upon his sovereign, as well as one which violated the stipulations of a treaty or the general law of nations.†   (source)
  • May had written saying that Dad was promising our best Christmas ever this year, but I was sure that came with the stipulation that another Christmas might never be as good.   (source)
    stipulation = specified understanding
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