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    regularity


    1. Time and routine – we measure lives by the watch-hand and the regularity of our shift between states of activity


    2. How long had their lives been? She knew they didn't age, but knew they fell to predation with much more regularity than humans


    3. droplets that rolled, with increasing regularity,


    4. in all directions with enough regularity to thwart


    5. when heavy, with the regularity of a ticking clock


    6. The frequency, regularity, and amount of his repayments, would sufficiently demonstrate that the amount of their advances had at no time exceeded that part of his capital which he would otherwise have been obliged to keep by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands; that is, for the purpose of keeping the rest of his capital in constant employment


    7. Regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command, are qualities which, in modern armies, are of more importance towards determining the fate of battles, than the dexterity and skill of the soldiers in the use of their arms


    8. fire-arms, the smoke, and the invisible death to which every man feels himself every moment exposed, as soon as he comes within cannon-shot, and frequently a long time before the battle can be well said to be engaged, must render it very difficult to maintain any considerable degree of this regularity, order, and prompt obedience, even in the beginning of a modern battle


    9. In these circumstances, and among troops who had some confidence in their own skill and dexterity in the use of their arms, it must have been a good deal less difficult to preserve some degree of regularity and order, not only in the beginning, but through the whole progress of an ancient battle, and till one of the two armies was fairly defeated


    10. But the habits of regularity, order, and prompt obedience to command, can be acquired only by troops which are exercised in great bodies

    11. The austerity of their manners gave them authority with the common people, who contrasted the strict regularity of their conduct with the disorderly lives of the greater part of their own clergy


    12. In all the presbyterian churches, where the rights of patronage are thoroughly established, it is by nobler and better arts, that the established clergy in general endeavour to gain the favour of their superiors; by their learning, by the irreproachable regularity of their life, and by the faithful and diligent discharge of their duty


    13. The most opulent church in Christendom does not maintain better the uniformity of faith, the fervour of devotion, the spirit of order, regularity, and austere morals, in the great body of the people, than this very poorly endowed church of Scotland


    14. By the latest reports, the regularity of attendance has been sustained, the Cuban officials have without exception proved satisfactory


    15. " Many journalists were banned, and if caught in a banned area, arrested and no doubt sorted out too or so they claimed with boring regularity (sometimes rightly so)


    16. Thesa's black form continued to flit in and out of the enemy's lines, gouging here, slashing there, hard to see in the shadows cast by the tall walls of the labyrinth, but he could do little to stop his comrades from falling around him with horrifying regularity


    17. On the one hand, whenever the image that was now permanently burnt into his mind popped into his consciousness again - something that it did with a disabling regularity - a terrible black rage overtook him, and he could think of nothing other than tearing Conrad Hunter’s bowels from his body and making him eat them in front of him


    18. It was recommended that I take fiber each day to help with my regularity (or lack thereof) because of the colon issue and it makes a difference


    19. However, a series of inexplicable incidents occurred in the halls of justice regarding petitions and data submitted on Walston’s behalf: files were misplaced or lost with such regularity that his attorney became convinced the case was being influenced by unseen powers working contrary to Brian’s interests


    20. Six guys and two women all wearing heavy headphone style protectors were popping away at varying regularity

    21. Hilderich had noticed the lack of a second ring around the sun, and the regularity of ths sun’s shape and size, unlike their own two suns that seemed to come together and slightly draw themselves apart again every once in a while


    22. Had the regularity of their cries meant that this had been their usual lot, but the pain’s sudden return wiped any thoughts of others from her mind as she braced for another round


    23. The regularity suggested that it was a purposefully planted grove, but something deeper in, darkened the shadow too much to identify what was there


    24. Then, as his search widened, he looked up into the heavens, and it became much easier to picture that bright Spirit that appeared with such regularity as being what he sought


    25. But, the heavens also produced many lesser points-of-light that moved with some kind of regularity


    26. Well, I thought, random, chance, chaos; all terms indicating lack of predictability, the opposite of order and regularity, “that which can be defined or measured


    27. ” Is it possible that what appears to us as random is only because we lack the fineness of measuring ability to see the regularity embedded within these chance occurrences? Fractal geometry seems to give us a glimpse of an underlying order while we at the “macro level” see only a chaotic condition


    28. The regularity of its lofty comings and goings decreed a sense of order to the smallness of life below


    29. What if all instances of chance behavior only seemed as such because our instruments were not sharp enough to detect the order at their base? What could possibly be at the base of all instances of order and regularity? An Intelligent component?


    30. Both Norm and Tom disregarded them as pranks, but soon they were arriving with more regularity

    31. No one has yet found a substitute for a regularity in meals, in sleep, and in rest, and in work


    32. foot on the floor with the most annoying regularity


    33. practicing yoga, please note that consistency and regularity


    34. The majority of the course deals with ways in which you can improve your relationship and then ties this back to why improving your relationship in the ways suggested helps to improve the regularity of your sex life


    35. aspirant, and regularity is one of the most important factors in producing the


    36. With serene regularity, as if controlled by a schedule, bullets found men


    37. The general trend was always upward, though he ascended and descended the gentle inclines with monotonous regularity


    38. He quivered and writhed as if in agony; a regularity became evident in the twitching of his limbs, which quickly became rhythmic


    39. 4 Although these Jews were not at all bothered in conscience as they intrigued to effect the judicial murder of Jesus, they were nonetheless scrupulous regarding all these matters of ceremonial cleanness and traditional regularity


    40. Fluid, water, it is important to maintain a high quantity of this with regularity, within the body

    41. Ever since the railroad had been officially inaugurated and had begun to arrive with regularity on Wednesdays at eleven o’clock and the primitive wooden station with a desk, a telephone, and a ticket window had been built, on the streets of Macondo men and women were seen who had adopted everyday and normal customs and manners but who really looked like people out of a circus


    42. Certainly Cliff Claven may not be the best government worker, but from my experience, the mail does eventually get delivered with great regularity


    43. But even this sight lost its appeal by its very regularity


    44. Initially he assumed the headache to be a physical ailment, until the regularity entered his consciousness


    45. The regularity of payments gives it


    46. Fridays, Fred noted, arrived with a distressing regularity


    47. As his arm thrust forward, the world, as it seemed to be doing with some regularity, exploded around him


    48. It seemed that this had been happening with increasing regularity over


    49. The city is presently hit with near clockwork regularity by one ballistic missile per two hours, with each missile powerful enough to destroy most of a street block


    50. The Germans are using with great success and regularity their Arado 234 bombers all over Southern England for both bombing and reconnaissance













































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    Synonyms for "regularity"

    regularity geometrical regularity conformity system rule

    "regularity" definitions

    a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles


    the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate