What is "vests"

Usage examples of "vests".

The power sought to be exercised was the lawmaking power, which the Constitution vests in the Congress alone.

Long Tom and Terrence Wire and the two strange women in the red vests lay with El Gorrion, there was sudden movement.

Their red vests were visible against the white snow in the moonlight--the night that had come was as bright as a dull day--then they were gone.

They had checked the rigging, gear, weapons, and combat vests of each other.

Murdock led them out on a ten-mile march with full operational loads, including combat vests with standard-issue ammo for the various weapons.

They hiked away from the bus with full vests and weapons, combat ready, in their sweat-stained cammies.

They had restocked their combat vests with their regular supply of ammunition, grenades, and other operational gear, and stuffed in one MRE each.

They had their complete combat-ready vests, weapons, Drager LAR V rebreathers, and fins.

They had their combat vests and re-breathers, but no IBS--Inflatable Boat Small--or any grenades.

A few minutes later, they climbed on board, stowed their vests and weapons, and settled down into real commercial-airliner-type seats for the ride.

I reject the doctrine of State sovereignty, which I held and defended from 1828 to 1861, but still maintain that the sovereignty of the American Republic vests in the States, though in the States collectively, or united, not severally, and thus escape alike consolidation and disintegration.

Government that vests authority in the nation, and attaches the nation to a certain definite territory.

But be this as it may, there evidently can be no physical force in the nation to coerce the nation itself in case it goes wrong, for if the sovereignty vests in the nation, only the nation can rightly command or authorize the employment of force, and all commissions must run in its name.

Here it suffices to say that supposing a political people or nation, the sovereignty vests in the community, not supernaturally, or by an external supernatural appointment, as the clergy hold their authority, but by the natural law, or law by which God governs the whole moral creation.

The argument is conclusive, and the defence complete, if the Union is only a firm or copartnership, and the sovereignty vests in the States severally.