with greater reason

Example Sentences

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One takes good care of his sword, that it be not bent or rusted: with greater reason should he give heed to his thought.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise

What we hope for this nation, we may hope with greater reason for the other nations yet reposing in their infancy, or growing in giant proportions under British rule.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

Now, why should they not in like manner, and even with greater reason, have rescued the bodies of St. Peter and St. Paul, if it were only for decent burial?

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry

The Italian bishops and barons, less superstitious than the Germans, and with greater reason to resent the domineering graspingness of Gregory, were ready to espouse the Emperor's cause.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

The writer who thought that Ignatius had been at school with Polycarp, also believed, and with greater reason, that he was contemporary with the Onesimus of the New Testament.

From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)