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n. In Latin, the three simple tenses: present tense, future tense, and imperfect tense, as contrasted with the perfect system, the three perfect tenses: perfect tense, future perfect, and pluperfect tense. Verbs in the present system tend to indicate an action that has not completed.
Usage examples of "present system".
In the long run I think the hardest people to bring to heel will be the businessmen, who have most to lose by the passing of the present system and in some cases are consciously pro-Hitler.
The present system of government, he reminded Jupiter, had been instituted by the first constitutional convention, close to nine hundred years ago, and could conceivably be overturned by another.
When we see how these orders work we'll be better able to further modify the present system.
You have heard him denounced in the past as a reactionary who opposed every step, measure, slogan and premise of the present system.
Right now, the present system could almost work with stylus and permabond.
After Manning cracked up, we worked out the present system of two qualified engineers and an observer for every watch.
The present system is the one the American people have chosen to serve them at this period of their development.