How To Use Inferior In A Sentence

The slump in prices was largely attributed to inferior quality tea being produced by various India gardens.
The inferior gluteal artery also assists in forming the cruciate anastomosis that forms around the neck and greater trochanter of the femur.
The situation reminds me of the commonly held view that anything ‘local’ is inferior to that from ‘foreign.’
Simmons and Torre are clearly inferior to the other ten catchers and would rank 11 th and 12 th, respectively, in my book.
Those who feel inferior constantly sink down within themselves and appear subservient. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?

Objective To explore a proper recording of the unit discharge in auditory nerve and inferior colliculus for the observation of characteristics of response potential.
Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Infarction: An Unusual Complication of Posterior Spinal Fusion Surgery in an Adolescent with Idiopathic Scoliosis.
All you get are inferior Spanish clementines and Florida tangerines, hard as bricks but not so tasty.
It is only the inferior and more siliceous beds that are lapidified.
Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
Short-term androgen suppression produces inferior survival compared with long-term androgen suppression in the treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer, according to the results of a study published in the CancerConsultants
Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands. Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
I felt very inferior among all those academics.
The group was seen as inferior and therefore expendable.
This is followed by a barrage of verbal abuse that leaves me feeling inferior. The Sun
They ceased to be temporary sojourners in the cities, expected to return to the homelands, often inferior pieces of land far away from industrial centres and jobs, where they held permanent residence.
Hence that wide-spread Pythagorean philosophy, with its spheral harmonics and esoteric mysteries, uniting in one brotherhood for many years men of thought and action, -- dare we say, our inferiors? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
He denounced democracy as a psychopathic expression of inferiority and compromise as an aberration that must be crushed out of existence.
My creaseless Gap khakis and limp white shirt developed an inferiority complex. A Kettle of Vultures
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being. Osho
There is a possible metaphysic that suggests that a thing's representations are not secondary and inferior to it but are constitutive of that thing.
There was general dulness throughout the lower part of both, with the exception of a small space at the inferior angle of the left scapula, where pectoriloquy was distinctly heard, from which was concluded the cavernous state of a portion of that lung. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
The word chauvinism is often used as shorthand for male chauvinism, a term describing the attitudes of men who believe that women are inferior and should not be given equal status with men. Chauvinism
The Arteria Profunda Linguæ (ranine artery; deep lingual artery) is the terminal portion of the lingual artery; it pursues a tortuous course and runs along the under surface of the tongue, below the Longitudinalis inferior, and above the mucous membrane; it lies on the lateral side of the Genioglossus, accompanied by the lingual nerve. VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery
One of these large receivers, called the _vena cava superior_, or _upper vena cava_, brings back the blood from the arms and head, the other, the _vena cava inferior_, or _lower vena cava_, brings back the blood from the body and lower limbs. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
The reflected inguinal ligament is a layer of tendinous fibers of a triangular shape, formed by an expansion from the lacunar ligament and the inferior crus of the subcutaneous inguinal ring. IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen
The people of means sometimes had their children educated at home, and sometimes sent them to the little colleges which have since become Columbia and Princeton, colleges which were then inferior to a good English grammar school. VIII. The Closing of the Colonial Period. 1720-1764.
This phobia is the brightest flower of my inferiority complex. Times, Sunday Times
In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
Falling at the feet of Jesus in front of a crowd is a telling gesture signifying social inferiority.
The inferior has eight distinct ridges none of which reach the apex; these divide this strongly convex face into nine slightly concave facets, of which those adjacent to the carinae are the widest, (Fig. 36, A.) side view, natural size, (Fig. 37,) viewed from the point, showing the division into parts and its polygonal form. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
The muscle is incorporated because it acts as a vehicle for perforating blood vessels that supply the overlying skin and fat and that originate from the deep inferior epigastric artery.
SO you have bought the surround sounds amp & speakers. the speaker stands and all the wires. you have bought the best sound you can afford … … … … then settle on an inferior picture because of the size of tv, you say that you have limited floor space so what are you doing with it NOW, are you displaying some rare and ancient artefact, is your new stand taken up that same space you needed so much or do you just have more floor to clean. Mitsubishi’s New LaserVue TVs: First Impressions - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
Women's status in traditional Chukchi society was clearly inferior to that of men.
Below the bulla ethmoidalis and hidden by the uncinate process of the ethmoid is the opening of the maxillary sinus (ostium maxillare); an accessory opening is frequently present above the posterior part of the inferior nasal concha. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
The Carnatic is a country not much inferior in extent to England. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco. The Social History of Smoking
Tanto fastu scripsit, ut Alexandri gesta inferiora scriptis suis existimaret, Io. Anatomy of Melancholy
Such was the stature of denim that even so obviously inferior a pair of jeans were acceptable.
She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
Heyzanie's World thinks that driving a taxi is not an inferior job even for someone who has a PhD from Stanford Global Voices in English » Singapore: Taxi driver-blogger is a PhD graduate
In the capital of the empire the Taoist priesthood includes: two Tao-lu-sze, superiors, a title corresponding with that of the Buddhists, seng-lu-sze; two Cheng-i, Taoists of right simplicity; two Yen-fa, ritual Taoists; two Che-ling, Taoists of great excellence, thaumaturgus; and two Che-i, Taoists of great probity, an inferior class of priests. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The word once meant very literally the voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior.
I felt very inferior among all those academics.
Despite their inferiority, York could feel aggrieved about Percy Park's third try which followed a blatantly forward pass.
This may be due to the inferior quality of the centrifuges or because there are faulty components that have been introduced. Times, Sunday Times
This allowance was to be suspended during the absence from Oxford of any inferior bedel, whether occasioned by his own affairs or those of the University. The Customs of Old England
The basilar region is not actually small, but it is inferior in size to the sincipital.
Then, there is the right of Prohibition which says to the junior magistrate or the inferior magistrate that he mustn't outstep his jurisdiction. Is Quebec A British Province?
At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
She considered everyone her intellectual inferior.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. Mark Twain
She was a cruel and vicious woman, and did not hesitate to inflict pain upon her inferiors, be they slaves, servants, or her own flesh and blood.
_And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE. Chivalry
Especially IE setting once after set, the likelihood won't be changed for a long time, because this is inferior to thorough anchor ice sealing!
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being. Osho
This arrhythmia is commonly associated with inferior myocardial infarction.
The middle portion of the uncinate fasciculus is extensively interconnected with the bulky middle part of the inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus.
Nevertheless the imperfection inherent in its inferiority can be overcome as it returns towards its cause.
His efforts also saved countless lives by rooting out contractors using inferior materials and producing shoddy equipment.
The sun floods in, young plants shoot upwards and the struggle starts anew as the winners block light from their inferiors.
He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in. Familiar Letters of William James III
Rotherby, who had always considered Hillsden his social inferior, offered the uncharitable explanation that there was no real mystery. THE ENDLESS GAME
Communities dependent upon the commons do not have social regulations and that group ownership is an inferior solution.
His Lordship drew no distinction as to the scope of review for inferior courts and administrative institutions.
On the ridge of bone dividing the carotid canal from the jugular foramen is the inferior tympanic canaliculus for the transmission of the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve; and on the wall of the jugular foramen, near the root of the styloid process, is the mastoid canaliculus for the passage of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve. II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
Instead of countering these puny charges, let me just say that these allegations of inferior innards recall those of the phrenologists and racial purists in one of the darkest eras of modern history.
The inferior genicular arteries (aa. genu inferiores; inferior articular arteries) (Figs. 550, 551), two in number, arise from the popliteal beneath the Gastrocnemius. VI. The Arteries. 6c. The Popliteal Artery
The hepatic portal vein was cannulated with an appropriate gauge catheter and the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava (superior to the kidney) were both cut.
The tail occupies a position in the roof of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle.
Furthermore, it bore coincidental resonance with the nineteenth-century Euro-American pejorative digger, which referred to the supposed cultural inferiority of California's Native Americans, some of whom derived subsistence from the gathering of wild roots. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
When the relationship between people and nature is discussed today, it is always humanity that bears the mark of moral inferiority.
What Rousseau called the inferior ‘freedom’ of the state of nature may indeed be preferable to the violence and terror of slavery, and perhaps even to the soft contemporary dependency of neocolonialism.
I had promised to write for them, but the peag being bi-ought me, & so litle, & they quarrelling among them - sclues, & foolishly charging inferior Sacbims of nonpay - ment, I was not free. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Every state in history was or is a _state of classes_, a polity of superior and inferior social groups, based upon distinctions either of rank or of property. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
A price fall leads to a rise in real income which could result in falling demand if the good is strongly inferior.
The Yoruba and the Igbo are the domineering languages of the South, but it is quite difficult for the people of the South-South geopolitical zone to accept inferiority under any of the duo. Thisday Online
Inferiorly, the caudate lobe is near the inferior vena cava and the quadrate lobe rests near the gallbladder.
Some Editors read {autou} (with inferior MSS.) or alter the word to {eoutou}. The History of Herodotus
An inferior sort of tea, with a leaf twice or thrice as large as that of Bohea, grows wild in the hilly parts of Quang-ai, and is sold at from 12s. 6d. to 40s. the picul of 133lbs. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
Its tributaries are the left vertebral, left internal mammary, left inferior thyroid, and the left highest intercostal veins, and occasionally some thymic and pericardiac veins. VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax
The inferior courts Those courts which do not form part of the Supreme Court of Judicature are collectively known as inferior courts.
Nor can he equal the sublime lyrism of his model; but he is little inferior in poetic conception, in dignified idealization, and in picturesque imagery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
Lying causes activity in the frontal part of the brain, including the medial inferior and pre-central areas, as well as the hippocampus and middle temporal regions and the limbic areas.
There is little attention to the lives of those of socially inferior status. The Times Literary Supplement
This use of the term, _which was common to him with his contemporaries_, and continued to be common after his time, is illustrated by his remarks on the passage, 'and the Logos was God'; in which he contended, that the Logos was god, in an inferior sense; -- not as we would say God, but _a god_, not _the_ divine being, but _a_ divine being. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
For insertion in the proximal tibia, the spinal needle is directed inferiorly at a 45-degree angle from the perpendicular.
The fibers of the lateral lemniscus end by terminals or collaterals in the inferior colliculus and the medial geniculate body. IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
Included are those fibers joining the inferior constrictor of the pharynx to the thyroid gland.
Rock salmon - that had a noble sound about it, though he believed it was actually inferior to real salmon.
It never yields more than five per cent. of morphia, whence its inferiority, but is as good in other respects, and even richer in narcotine. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Liebowitz and Margolis are skeptical that any convincing claim of path dependent selection of an objectively inferior standard has been established.
This tendency to repel every suggestion of inferiority is one of the surest signs of provincial habits; it is exactly the feeling with which the resident of the village resents what he calls the airs of the town, and that which the inland trader brings with him among those whom he terms the "dandies" of the sea-board. Recollections of Europe
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. Nathaniel Branden
Occasionally a legislature will expand the jurisdiction of an inferior court or provide a summary remedy for the disposition of claims involving less than a certain amount.
Again, as Mr. Darwin says, "In the embryos of all air-breathing vertebrates, certain glands, called the corpora Wolffiana, correspond with and act like the kidneys of mature fishes;" and during the sixth month the whole body is covered very thickly with wool-like hair -- even the forehead and ears being closely coated; but it is, as Mr. Darwin observes, "a significant fact that the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are quite naked, like the inferior surfaces of all four extremities in most of the lower animals," including monkeys. The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution
Elected representatives make noise alleging that the quality of work is inferior.
The 1993 American remake is vastly inferior.
However, from this position of avowed inferiority, could I possibly make two tiny observations?
It is also called the Cork Tree, as an inferior cork is processed from its corky bark.
The ceremonial inferiority or uncleanness in consumable goods due to "commonness," or in other words to their slight cost of production, has been taken very seriously by many persons. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
A substantial number of maladies like inferiority complex, emotionally reactive behavior, lack of responsibility, lack of interest in education, etc. stem from such educational setups, which despite its fame of excellence portrays a Darwinic image of “the survival of the fittest” instead of the Muhammadan image of “the emancipation of the weakest”. Archive 2007-11-01
At the anterior end of the nucleus of the abducent nerve they make a second bend, and run downward and forward through the pons to their point of emergence between the olive and the inferior peduncle. IX. Neurology. 5g. The Facial Nerve
If you are determined not to let your character make you an inferior person, or stop you from being an achieving person, fight your negative values and habits tooth and nail, it is possible for you to win the battle. Dr T.P.Chia
Literary sources indicate the existence in fourth-century Sparta of a group known as ‘Inferiors’, and impoverished freeborn Spartiates may have been so categorized.
A combination of religious and cultural change, reinforced by political pressure from governments, began to wean them away from their social inferiors.
Most inferiors flattered their superiors with an exception of Mr Park.
Amongst orchids, where the pedicel of the flower or the ovary is normally twisted, so that the labellum occupies the anterior or inferior part of the flower, it frequently happens, in cases of peloria and other changes, that the primitive position is retained, the twist does not take place, and so with other resupinate flowers. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Practitioners made it look up-to-date, however, by derisively highlighting the racism, colonialism, sexism and other failings that made past ages so inferior to their own.
Pepys's age, I venture to submit that the _humble pie_ of that period was indeed the pie named in the list quoted; and not only so, but that it was made out of the "umbles" or entrails of the deer, a dish of the second table, inferior of course to the venison pasty which smoked upon the dais, and therefore not inexpressive of that humiliation which the term "eating humble pie" now painfully describes. Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849
The dotted line in each diagram separates the superior courts from the inferior courts.
During this surgery, the inferior vena cava, the other large vein that returns deoxygenated blood to the heart from the lower half of the body, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery. Tricuspid Atresia
Because saying that a particular race of people has inferior mental abilities due to their genetic racial makeup is kind of the definition of racism? The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail
The nerve passes along the internal auditory meatus with the vestibular nerve and across the subarachnoid space, just above the flocculus, almost directly medialward toward the inferior peduncle to terminate in the cochlear nucleus. IX. Neurology. 5h. The Acoustic Nerve
Suffer from psychological problems: loneliness, homesickness, depression, inferiority complex.
It was considered vastly inferior to film or any other art form. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionally, the combat service support forces have occupied a status seen as somewhat inferior to those of the other two categories.
In control group procedures, electrocoagulation was used to transect small vessels, and knot tying was employed for the superior thyroid vessels, the thyroid vein, and some inferior arterial branches.
Too sad so still is inferior to pretend don't care about anything.
Her obvious popularity made me feel inferior.
'I contend for it that all our civilisation is higher, and that class for class we are in a more advanced culture than the English; that your chawbacon is not as intelligent a being as our bogtrotter; that your petty shopkeeper is inferior to ours; that throughout our middle classes there is not only a higher morality but a higher refinement than with you.' Lord Kilgobbin
But the cinematic experience of VHS is objectively inferior to DVD and Blu-ray: poorer picture quality and crummier sound, less time efficient, less space efficient, less life efficient. Claire Gordon: Be Kind, Fast Forward
“I had the honour,” wrote Gulliver solemnly of Lilliput, “to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for, as all the world knows, he is only a Clumglum, a title inferior by one degree….” Alexander Hamilton, American
I doubt," said Vickers dryly, "that a Neanderthaler could work up a very powerful inferiority complex. Ring Around the Sun
The copies that do work are of inferior quality, and many of them don't work in any case.
That other honour to our profession, Roker, is well versed in chicane, and knows more of the law, or rather of its abuse, than an honest man would wish to know; but Fisherton is so ignorant that, while his lavish expences continually reduce him to necessities that drive him into bold attempts at robbery, his skill in managing them is so inferior that he is almost always baffled, and has been more than once exposed. ' The Old Manor House
Politian had used the freedom of a friend, and pleasantly, in the form of a Latin epigram, corrected the mistake of Scala in making the _culex_ (an insect too well-known on the banks of the Arno) of the inferior or feminine gender. Romola
While the use of pure cultures in this way is an advantage over the method of simply allowing the cream to ripen normally without such additions, it is a method that is decidedly inferior to that which first pasteurizes the cream and subsequently adds a starter. The Story of Germ Life
If you don't risk equality and you trap yourself in inferiority. Ferraro: Reagan Dems find Obama campaign 'frightening'
But would you say that an albino is inferior to us? God’s work? « BuzzMachine
That perception of inferiority in turn means that some sort of caste barrier is erected between black and white.
He began copying because he was sick of paying money for inferior material to unscrupulous dealers and considered it his hobby.
passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays
After 1870, religious bigotry gave way to racial bigotry; all non-Anglo Saxon peoples were described as permanently inferior due to their intellectual, moral, and physical degeneracy.
Any risk of a return to rural conditions was a sign of social regression, and when inferior cereals replaced wheat in the markets, city authorities would be forced to requisition supplies elsewhere for fear of riots.
The more salient issue is the markedly inferior performance of Mannian PLS to some simple alternatives such as unweighted average or simple principal components. Benchmarking from VZ Pseudoproxies « Climate Audit
Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt. Lectures on Art
When inferior branches are absent, they are sometimes replaced by branches from the middle rectal, gluteal, and sciatic arteries.
Such as he saw at work were noticeably inferior in physique to the few gaily dressed managers and forewomen who were directing their labours.
It produces in one year two hundred piculs of wax, fifty piculs of tortoise-shell, ten piculs of best camphor, and as much inferior; ten piculs of birds'-nests, at ten dollars the catty; 1st camphor, twenty-five; rattans, one dollar per picul; tortoise-shell, one dollar the catty; wax, twenty the picul. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
On the left side of this specimen, this twig arose as a branch of the vertebral artery, the inferior thyroid artery being absent.
inferior alveolar artery
The patients in the surgical group received thrombectomy, balloon venoplasty, and stent placement after placement of inferior vena cava filters.
Tribunals of inferior jurisdiction were instructed to send prisoners for heresy, together with the record of their examination, to the sovereign courts of parliament, there to be tried in the "Chambre criminelle. The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Apparel made of fustian, canvas, leather, and wool is always deemed appropriate for those of the ‘inferior sort’.
A foramen may be present in the petrobasilar fissure in front of the jugular foramen through which runs the inferior petrosal sinus.
And to this conjecture I will venture to subjoin another, which hath also its probability, viz. that it is not improbable but the familiars of witches are a vile kind of spirits of a very inferior constitution and nature; and none of those that were once of the highest hierarchy now degenerated into the spirits we call devils .... The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Even so, he couldn't help but feel inferior to the men gathered in this room.
Malay, looks upon the Englishman as little removed from a "Kafir" -- an uncircumcised Philistine -- who through ignorance constantly offends in minor points of etiquette, who eats pig and drinks strong drink, is ignorant of the dignity of repose, and whose accidental physical and political superiority in the present world will be more than compensated for by the very inferior and uncomfortable position he will attain in the next. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
Inferior premier league football clubs get relegated and replaced by new contenders every season.
Some of their observations led to the conclusion that the old “corpuscular” or atomic theory of matter was inferior to wave theory as a means of explaining or predicting some things. Energy and Society~ Chapter 1~ Energy & Society
Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
That means an inferior and subordinate role, which has been ratified in the postlapsarian situation, particularly under the weight of the curse.
In other words, if we understand the terms of colonialism established by Edward Said in his seminal work Orientalism, we discover the civilizer must define the object of his desire as inferior and thus in need of civilization, he must also determine that they can be improved and refined through his civilizing project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
The members of subgen. Bomarea s.str. have an inferior ovary and a dehiscent capsule.
These courts were not subject to judicial review at all which only applied to administrative authorities and inferior courts.
I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honor to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows he is only a Glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a Marquis is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his post. Gulliver's Travels
Those who feel inferior constantly sink down within themselves and appear subservient. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
This type of direct and collegial democracy shall not be considered inferior to modern western-type democracies based on the notion of delegating one's own decision-making powers to a group of elected and politically accountable representatives," Buthelezi explained. ANC Daily News Briefing
The incisor branch is continued forward beneath the incisor teeth as far as the middle line, where it anastomoses with the artery of the opposite side; the mental branch escapes with the nerve at the mental foramen, supplies the chin, and anastomoses with the submental and inferior labial arteries. VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery
It has been dissected out from the inferior part of the cingulate gyrus in which, for the most part, it is embedded.
The slip from the inferior angle of the scapula has sometimes provided fasciculi that are directly continuous with the fibers of rhomboideus major.
But, then again, inferiority depends on where your benchmarks are and with whom you are comparing.
Such courses were seen as inferior to academic ones. Times, Sunday Times
Passes were flubbed, unnecessary offsides were infuriatingly common, play was slower and the general skill level was clearly inferior. Globe and Mail
Between these circular fibers (the cricopharyngeal muscle) and the oblique fibers of the inferior constrictor muscle there is a weakly supported point through which the esophageal wall may herniate to form the so-called pulsion diverticulum. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
For to what else was owing our ruinous war of the Two Roses than to an original demur in our courts of law whether the descendant of an elder son through the female line had a title preferable or inferior to that of a descendant in the male line from a son confessedly _junior_? The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
On either side of the anus, in the ischio-rectal space, D D, Fig. 1, Plate 51, is found a considerable quantity of granular adipose tissue, traversed by the inferior haemorrhoidal arteries and nerves-branches of the pudic artery and nerve. Surgical Anatomy
It is most evident when he refers to the middle class - especially those members of it who, through idealism or voyeurism, decided to slum it with their social inferiors.
Rotherby, who had always considered Hillsden his social inferior, offered the uncharitable explanation that there was no real mystery. THE ENDLESS GAME
Also, some dermatologists believe that home phototherapy is inferior to hospital treatment and carries more risks, such as inaccurate dosimetry, phototoxicity, and unsupervised continuation of irradiation. MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
Why then, after it had been segregated to emphasize its inferior status, did men wilfully cross the alps and seek out this remote spot for their clandestine purposes?
Nobody is inferior to you here.
It is well understood that white men of that time considered the Negroid race inferior and childlike compared to whites. Jefferson on the Indians, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Menagerie , Laura Wingfield suffers severe inferiority complex caused by her physical disability.
Hitherto native strontianite, that is, the 90 to 95 per cent. pure carbonate of strontium (not the celestine which frequently is mistaken by the term strontianite), has not been worked systematically in mines, but what used to be brought to the market was an inferior stone collected in various parts of Germany, chiefly in Westphalia, where it is found on the surface of the fields. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
Someone who gets admitted to college with an ‘unearned advantage’ is forever tagged as inferior, regardless of skills.
He was deriding the Anthropological Society's attempts to categorise humanity into inferior and superior races based on physical appearance.
There is no doubt that the Emperor and all his arrogant courtiers have decupled their incomes from the British stimulation applied to inferior soils, that but for us never would have been called into culture. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg
Nor did his Lordship draw any demarcation between administrative institutions and inferior courts for the purposes of review.
Her apparent acceptance of female inferiority was certainly in part a rhetorical flourish. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
United States President Abraham Lincoln from childhood have an inferiority complex, he is overcome by self- deprecating self-esteem, develop their own self-confidence.
And he got swept up in what was called ethnological science, which predicted the so called extinction of certain allegedly inferior races and so forth. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
As a man he is high-spirited and energetic, always ready to fight for his Sultan, his country and, especially, his Faith: courteous and affable, rarely failing in temperance of mind and self-respect, self-control and self-command: hospitable to the stranger, attached to his fellow citizens, submissive to superiors and kindly to inferiors — if such classes exist: Eastern despotisms have arrived nearer the idea of equality and fraternity than any republic yet invented. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Announcing a campaign to boost the local manufacturing industry, the body objected to what it called the dumping of inferior foreign products on South African markets. ANC Daily News Briefing
I watched her at the produce table, smilin as she handled a wrinkled green pepper and a spotted tomato, deriv ing some secret amusement from their inferior condition. Incubus
True inferior goods are not common, but particular goods and services may benefit from some customers who buy more as incomes fall.
If luxation is downward, traction on the extremity will tend to dislodge the head of the femur from the inferior acetabular margin making reduction possible. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
moonlighted," supplementing Qubwa's drug allocation with privately contracted and often inferior supplies. Psychosphere
Superior claims may baulk inferior ones, but the liquidator's duty is to realise the assets of all in accordance with their rights.
For the first time in human history the inferior man has no ready buttress for his self-regard.
Those who use ‘male privilege’ treat partners like servants or inferiors, consistently make unilateral decisions, and insist on maintaining stereotypical gender roles.
His own composition - a massive hit - has been overlooked in favour of the vastly inferior follow-up single, which he had nothing to do with.
The altered character of the horn is accounted for by the inflammatory changes in the sensitive laminæ and the papillæ of the keratogenous membrane generally, for it follows as a matter of course that these tissues, themselves in a diseased condition, must naturally produce a horn of a greatly altered and inferior quality. Diseases of the Horse's Foot

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