6 sentences with 'admitting'
Example sentences and phrases with the word admitting and other words derived from it.
• « Six-year-old Chris had arrived at the hospital on September 5, 1980. The admitting nurse commented that she had rarely seen a child in such pain. »
• « The first four steps against alcoholism are: admitting that you are helpless in the face of alcohol, and that you can no longer control your life; coming to the conviction that a force greater than yourself can restore your mental health; »
• « Catherine the Great also created the first educational institution for girls in Russia, the Smolny Institute, admitting the daughters of nobles and, eventually, well-to-do commoners (ironically, given its own power, the Institute trained noble girls to be obedient and compliant wives rather than aspiring leaders). »
• « To this day, the Turkish government (while admitting that many Armenians died) denies what historians have long recognised: Armenians were the victims of a deliberate campaign of genocide, with over a million killed. »
• « Soviet finances were in such disarray in the second half of the 1980s that Gorbachev simply ended the arms race with the United States, admitting that the USSR could not match America's gigantic arsenal. »
• « A synagogue or a church attended only by saints would be like a hospital admitting only healthy people. It would be much easier to administer, and it would be a much nicer place, but I don't think such a temple would fulfil the function for which it was erected. »