interposition
IPA: ɪtˈɝpʌzˈɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
- The thing interposed.
Advertisement
Examples of "interposition" in Sentences
- Then another key element is the notion of interposition and I would like to discuss that a bit.
- Patrolling parties that are designed to separate the parties in an actual or potential confrontation are called interposition patrols.
- Following St. Gregory of Nyssa's account, Brandon labels that something as "interposition" and fleshes out a bit about what that meant for Gregory.
- He gave this campaign a supposedly intellectual flair by coming up with such arguments as "interposition," a states 'rights ploy that would let state officials ignore federal laws they don't like.
- This providential interposition is all the more remarkable, that, as in the analogous case of Joseph, it was displayed in making the ordinary and natural course of things lead to the most marvellous results.
- For example, he gave new life to the idea of interposition championed by antebellum Sen. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, who argued that states could protect their citizens from the authority of the federal government.
- I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers
- Attacking Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause, a favorite move of opponents of the New Deal, has consistently failed — even conservative Supreme Court Justice Anontin Scalia concedes the point — and the doctrine of "interposition," offered as justification to block civil-rights legislation, has been discredited for five decades.
- These Sheikhs are a peculiar institution in the Soudan; they are supposed to be men under the special protection of a particular angel of God, whose interposition is effected by the Sheikh having isolated himself for eight or nine hours daily during a term of years, and constantly repeating all that time one of the ninety-nine names of God.
Advertisement
Advertisement