NOUN
- a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible
How To Use cy pres In A Sentence
- Even if I could do it, it's impossible to spell out a detailed policy prescription in a blog.
- The lesson is not easy to translate into a policy prescription.
- It was covered with inscriptions from top to base, in vivid white and blue, save where a vast and glaring kinematograph transparency presented a realistic New Testament scene, and where a vast festoon of black to show that the popular religion followed the popular politics, hung across the lettering Graham had already become familiar with the phonotype writing and these inscriptions arrested him, being to his sense for the most part almost incredible blasphemy. When the Sleeper Wakes
- In such a situation, the possibility of going away on an international residency presents itself as a very real relief, a providential oasis or retreat to an artist.
- A 66-year-old woman with no previous history of malignancy presented with melena.
- He also disapproved of the additional barriers the fascist policy presented to women in pursuit of a full education.
- There is a possibility that he will become more of a foreign policy president, because of this, said Allin. World Watches US Election Results
- The tour also visits several conservancy preserves, including newly acquired Watson Brake Mounds, one of the oldest mound complexes known.
- Scott was accepted in spite of the idiom which he sometimes employed, and not because of it, and one can only laugh at the fancy presented to the mind by the picture of an English or a foreign reader who for the first time found himself confronted by Mrs. Bartlemy Saddletree's query to her maid: 'What gart ye busk your cockernony that gait?' My Contemporaries In Fiction
- The tour also visits several conservancy preserves, including newly acquired Watson Brake Mounds, one of the oldest mound complexes known.
