TRAINING in a Sentence

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The number in itself is enough to put at rest the argument that too large a proportion of Negroes are receiving higher training.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRAINING
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training
 n.  the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
 n.  activity leading to skilled behavior
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Such was the Roman army, which is shown by all historians to have maintained excellent discipline as the result of constant military training.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI.
2  These qualities we cannot refer wholly to the blood, for that must change as a result of repeated intermarriages, but must ascribe rather to the different training and education given in different families.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XLVI.
3  Perhaps some inkling of this paradox, even in the unquiet days of the Bureau, helped the bayonets allay an opposition to human training which still to-day lies smouldering in the South, but not flaming.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
4  The steady withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher training of the Negro.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brickmason, but a man.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In V
6  This is the tangle of thought and afterthought wherein we are called to solve the problem of training men for life.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  The experiment that has been made to give the colored students classical training has not been satisfactory.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
8  The number in itself is enough to put at rest the argument that too large a proportion of Negroes are receiving higher training.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
9  And this the common schools and the manual training and trade schools are working to accomplish.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
10  To be sure, he had given four children a common-school training, and perhaps if the new fence-law had not allowed unfenced crops in West Dougherty he might have raised a little stock and kept ahead.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  They exhibit, therefore, all the advantages and defects of such training; they are willing and good-natured, but not self-reliant, provident, or careful.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  After Emancipation, it was the plain duty of some one to assume this group leadership and training of the Negro laborer.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  With this training it is difficult for the freedman to learn to grasp the opportunities already opened to him, and the new opportunities are seldom given him, but go by favor to the whites.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  My mother, of course, had little time in which to give attention to the training of her children during the day.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  His early training predisposed him to a life of adventure.
17  Paramedics are to have extra training in administering on-the-spot treatment.
18  On the course we received training in every aspect of the job.
19  New recruits have been undergoing training in recent weeks.
20  Without more training or advanced technical skills, they'll lose their jobs.
21  I opposed myself to the training plan.
22  She is training for the school sports meet.
23  This kind of training is ineffective, and wasteful of scarce resources.
24  Mary is training to be a technician.
25  A new training scheme to help the long-term unemployed is expected.
26  The team has been training hard in preparation for the big game.
27  She is an expert in training animals.
28  He had had a varied training and held many offices.
29  Companies are increasingly keen to contract out peripheral activities like training.
30  She has loads of natural talent as a runner and with rigorous training she could be a world-beater.