6 sentences with 'circuit'
Example sentences and phrases with the word circuit and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, kings in the early Middle Ages were largely itinerant, moving from place to place throughout the year. They had to make an annual circuit of their realms to ensure that their powerful vassals were loyal to them; a vassal ignored for too long could, and usually did, simply cease to recognise his king's lordship. »
• « Henry II (r. 1154 - 1189) created a system of royal sheriffs to enforce his will, created circuit courts that travelled the lands hearing cases, and created a grand jury system that allowed people to be tried by their peers. »
• « Before the telegraph, a message and reply could take up to two years to travel between England and India, but after telegraph lines were constructed in the course of the mid-19th century decades, a message and reply could make the circuit in just two days. This, of course, greatly increased the efficiency of governing in the context of world empires. »
• « If you like harder, shorter exercise... try very intense, strength-based sessions, such as circuit training. »
• « The circuit that governs or regulates impulses and emotions involves a network of subcortical neurons - located beneath the cortex - through which the brain "sends" the warning signal to the rest of the organism. »