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Example sentences for: canons

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Long before the Information Age, man struggled to digest the mounds of words contained in his religious, cultural, and legal canons.
(As the quotation above indicates, the 1102 Canons were in Latin, thus not valid citation fodder for the OED .)
Analyzed in light of these canons of interpretation, the Corporation's appropriations act requires that an alien must be "present in the United States" in order to be eligible for legal assistance.
Then, ruthless urban planner Baron Haussmann swept away almost all the medieval and 17th-century structures, leaving just place Dauphine and rue Chanoinesse (ancient home of the cathedral canons) as signs of the island’s once rich residential life.
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses "a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure."