6 sentences with 'persons'

Example sentences and phrases with the word persons and other words derived from it.

• « Human beings become persons by establishing relationships of coexistence. »
• « Human beings become persons by living in a society and sharing its culture. »
• « The politician promoted the sale of council-built houses to displaced persons in urban redevelopment projects; »
• « The nation, objectively, is the group of persons born in the same territory or of those persons who, opting for the right granted by the state, choose to naturalise; »
• « The beginning of orthodoxy was in the second and third centuries, when a group of theologians held that there were three persons or states of the divine being, called the Holy Trinity. »
• « Under the three-fifths compromise in the 1787 Constitution, each slave was to be counted as three-fifths of a person. Article 1, section 2, stipulated that "the representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states ... according to their respective numbers ... which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to serve for a term of years [white servants], and excluding Indians not subject to taxation, three-fifths of all other persons". »

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